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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
neighborhood was a product of Detroit’s controversial 1960s urban renewal efforts. “But the way people live today, they want to be close to the action. They want to be close to their jobs. They want to ride their bikes; they want to take... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the... View Details
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- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
Group invests in Bluemercury 2012 M-61 skincare launched 2014 Appointed Entrepreneur-in-Residence, HBS 2015 Lune+Aster cosmetics launched 2015 Macy’s acquires Bluemercury 2019 Bluemercury opens its 195th store CEO and Cofounder... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
almost four decades ago, this change is clearly more evolutionary than revolutionary. During the last five years, the Internet - and more specifically, its most user-friendly thoroughfare, the World Wide Web - has emerged as a preferred... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When HBS opened its first virtual classroom in 2014, the School had just started to experiment with online education. Located at Boston’s public television... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Professor Mike Toffel lays out the scenario: JUUL is the e-cigarette market leader—its revenue grew from $200 million to $1 billion between 2017 and 2018. But the company also faces questions... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
eventually purchased in Observatory Hill was moldy, with terrible indoor-air quality and standing water in the basement. Over the last three years, Harper, through her company, Birchwood Sustainable Development, turned it into a beautiful... View Details
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
help,” she says. A success to be sure, but the nonprofit world, Lisle quickly learned, was more complicated than the business world: “In the private sector, a customer pays and receives something, whether it be a View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
Frank Spencer (MBA 1986) helped to build his first Habitat for Humanity house in 1988. It was in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and, like many Habitat homes, was constructed over approximately 10 weeks, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
This is my first letter to you in my capacity as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I am honored to carry on the work of my predecessor, Ed Hajim (MBA '64), who over the years has done so much for the School and its alumni. Ed has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
winner of the Alumni New Venture Contest and its $50,000 grand prize at an April awards ceremony at HBS. “I like to think of our product as the software that protects your hardware,” said Newnam, whose... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
Pictured at right: Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022) is cofounder of Umbulizer Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Since its launch in 2012, the Venture Program at Harvard Innovation Labs has helped... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
veteran of the beauty business who has devoted her career to helping create and launch some 400 products for other companies. “The initial round of funding came from Bonnie Messing, Tracey Bilski, and Lauren Bender (all MBA 1987),” Pao... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
blind people through a network of associated agencies, NIB had once enjoyed a relative monopoly of the federal procurement market for its SKILCRAFT® brand of office supplies and some two thousand other View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
Early — much too early — on a rainy March morning, I find myself once again among a throng of bleary-eyed students trooping toward Aldrich Hall. The ritual of the herd, familiar to me and every HBS alum, certainly brings it all back. It’s... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
leaders engaging on the idea of a national-level response to climate change for years, but remarked that interest has notably increased among its members. “We’re now seeing [interest from] folks from the insurance sector, from banks, from... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Mahindra in 1991. Anand Mahindra has been leading M&M’s charge into the ranks of the world’s global corporations ever since. Established in 1945, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M), named after one of India’s best-known business families, got View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
demographic. “That’s an important example,” Gelman says, “because it shows that analytics can change how companies identify opportunities, build content and products that relate to people, and find ways to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Wizard to the Rescue
Just how much is the famous HBS brand worth? Quite a lot, it seems, from the humorous turn of events in this year’s HBS Show, The Wizard of Hawes. When Dean Clark takes HBS public, savvy students become overnight billionaires. But the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
The result of that abiding interest is his new book, Innovation and Its Discontents (Princeton University Press), which he cowrote with Professor Adam B. Jaffe of Brandeis University. Why do we need a patent system in the first place?... View Details