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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with very different... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
Community Partners program has seen more than one hundred volunteers tackle consulting projects ranging from strategic planning to marketing to technology management. Aside from offering alumni an opportunity to try their hand at community service, "it's also a View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
senior vice president at Symantec by day, and by night—well, at least seven or eight nights a year—a no-holds-barred guitarist, vocalist, and emcee for a band that donates its earnings to local schools. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul
heading next. This May, members of our team traveled to Europe to host HBS information sessions in Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul. In case you’re wondering, these international information sessions usually include an admissions presentation and the View Details
- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
private. We accept everyone in any stage of their coming out process and hope that you will be inspired by the stories of these students as they continue to grapple with a world that is not always accepting of who they are. Here, students... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
informed about the programs and services that await them as active members of the alumni community. Under the auspices of this committee, several board members attended a reception hosted by the Alumni Association during graduation week,... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
what they believed had a better than average chance of succeeding because there were women and men working together in leadership roles. This belief has since been substantiated by numerous studies showing... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
says Leahy. “I want to take all that I've learned and try to build a better world for them.” Making Her Mark with Mission-Driven Work This desire to build a better world for her children and future generations set in motion Leahy’s next career move to Glossier. A View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
a performance by Jason Randal, one of the world’s greatest magicians, he knew he had to get Randal to speak to students in his Managing Innovation elective course. “One theme of the course is the role of individual innovators and the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP, which started small View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
have the chance to build their credit history other than the loan that they were being provided. So, it felt as if you needed to build infrastructure to actually help the village move up in their economic livelihoods and loans weren’t it.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
earning their MBAs, almost half had broken away from a rapidly changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing... View Details
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog
and predictions about how a firm can make money by solving a problem that the market has yet to solve. As with any new idea, knowing with certainty if your startup idea will work is impossible. Worse yet, a startup idea is a bet with an... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
function caused by the tumor and its treatment, Susan had survived the unsurvivable. It was then that Sontag made a promise to himself and his wife: “If I ever get a chance to do something about this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
3 Key Take-a-Ways From My Summer at Zalando
the workforce are women) they know that it’s not enough. Zalando wants to maximize diversity across all levels of the organization’s hierarchy and in all business functions. Supported by the highest levels of the organization, a diversity... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience
Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- News
Cooking Up America’s Food Culture
Photography by Michael Paras Doug Duda (MBA 1985) cooked his way through his undergraduate degree in Miami. He cooked his way through his law degree in Boston and through his MBA at HBS. When he graduated, Duda says, “my family thought,... View Details
Keywords: April White