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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
six HBS Global Research Centers, Hill and her Leadership Initiative team hosted a series of virtual roundtable discussions on the pressing issues that accompany digital transformation. The goal: to examine how leadership has evolved in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Dwight Crane. "There is a learning curve in conducting business over the Internet. After people break through a few initial barriers and see the power of the medium, there is no telling what will happen." One futuristic device that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
initiatives — Apple, Claris, Palm, and Handspring — and it’s been rewarding to look back and see all the value and products created, as well as the customers served by those efforts. The Visor PDA uses the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
as it overcame the Tylenol tragedy to take its place as the country's dominant brand in health-care products. "A company credo that put customers first and shareholders last ultimately benefited both groups," he says. Jim Burke was among... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Nourish: We built a great line of formula-ready baby bottles, and we found a solid customer base. The unit economics made sense. The branding was great, and we were seemingly successful. Then we got a big order with Whole Foods, the dream... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
out of MIT, A123’s patented rechargeable batteries include a breakthrough Nanophosphate powder that increases conductivity, providing higher power levels and longer battery life. With initial applications for commercial View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Initiative at Arthur Andersen, in their new book, Broken Promises: An Unconventional View of What Went Wrong at IBM. Based on interviews with IBM executives, company records, and surveys of the company's customers, Broken Promises is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
such as Uber, Lyft, and Instacart, we are seeing ourTaskRabbit customers become increasingly creative in the services they outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
Collegiate Research Services, designed to help all students, including disadvantaged minorities and the first-generation college bound. Over time, my initial focus on students has evolved into a larger mission: helping organizations build... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
In an interview in last December's Bulletin Dean Kim B. Clark talked of launching "a profound transformation around information technology (IT)," an initiative that would earn for the School an unequaled reputation for intelligent,... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
globally by 62 percent. Be human when it comes to money. The same principle applies to customers facing financial hardship, says Deshpandé, who encourages firms to initiate crediting and financing, deferral... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
on and enough customers to make it a viable business. They’re not settling for half-measures. “If we have great content but we don’t have a differentiated experience, we fail,” she says. “And the reverse is true too.” The urgency to get... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
a variety of environmental initiatives that he has undertaken over the years. His devotion to preserving the island's natural beauty as well as the Fijian culture has earned Turtle Island accolades that include the 1999 Green Hotelier... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
India. “Hence ‘Alumni in Action’.... powerful stories of resilience, purpose and giving back. Stories that restore one's faith in Humanity and inspire us to dream of a better tomorrow." MAY 25 Vinay Pasricha (OPM 39, 2010) cofounded an View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
Ideally, the specifics of the No-Fist mechanism would be part of the initial collective bargaining agreement, since agreement on true variable costs of operations could be difficult and to some extent arbitrary. Estimates of real variable... View Details