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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
brown-led nonprofits closely tied to the people and problems in under-resourced Massachusetts communities. Shell, a managing director at Bain Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
way to realize that at the end of the day, planning a life and a career just won't work. It's better to make the best of the current opportunities, and see where that takes... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
because I am also an alumnus, I could use the database. Morrell: So Piero, who graduated from HBS's General Management Program in 2013, looks up Tim Perzyk in the HBS Alumni directory and finds his Twitter... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
and companies tax breaks, rebates, and higher-density building allowances for installing green roofs. Chicago, a national leader in green roof installation, now has more than 400 constructed or View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work... View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
analyst, didn’t have the authority to offer $20, much less $20 million. She quickly called Jeff Chambers, a managing director who had been with TA Associates for almost two decades and had opened the firm’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
exactly as we thought it would. And any time that you can lay out a plan and execute it—that's a good day." Strangely enough, in AMC's reinvented theaters, one of the most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
put it mildly, this was an overly rich valuation—Parker’s entire investment up to that point had been an Apple II and 10 used diskettes. With Parker’s enthusiastic assent, Sahlman used the TDC business plan... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
It’s starting to be something that founders themselves bring up.” —Rudina Seseri (MBA 2005), founder and managing partner, Glasswing Ventures But, Gompers cautions, hiring a woman as “window dressing,” often... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
you listen to the fans, you’ll wind up sitting with them. But what if a generation of fans has been brought up to game plan like coaches and build rosters like general managers, with skills honed by playing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
When Mayfield Fund Managing Director Raj Kapoor (MBA 1996), the cofounder and former CEO of Snapfish and fitmob, joined Lyft as chief strategy officer in 2016, he was intent on... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
timely faculty-led sessions on the crucial theme of Managing Through Crisis, which brought together nearly 10,000 alumni from around the world. The series was especially notable because our alumni were able to benefit, in real time, from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
would bring interested citizens from around the country to Washington for face-to-face meetings, were thought to be highly effective but had to be planned far in advance and were costly. Online petitions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
(His long-term plan puts Faction brand sales somewhere in the middle of that first band of revenues.) User experience plays a key role in differentiating Faction’s product, with communication feeding directly into product design View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
thorough understanding of the problem and a surgical plan to address it. Your job is to execute that plan with as little variation as possible. The ‘same way, every time’ is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
create and manage culture.” We have a hard time disagreeing with this statement, except maybe quibbling with the “only” part.... We’d argue that culture is in the running for most important because—among... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Police band manager Miles Copeland. "We were just two guys in a room starving," Boberg laughs, recalling his early years with the company that by the late 1980s had become the most prominent independent music label in North America. As... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso