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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
Dakar, Senegal, and Giza, Egypt, and observing the impact inside and outside the stadiums. “Just this season, we have engaged more than a hundred local vendors, entrepreneurs, and freelancers,” covering everything from uniform production to food service, notes Tatum.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
This will help in developing market solutions to confront environmental problems. In addition, last year we opened our mid-US research center with a goal of identifying opportunities for investment,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
about what to do and whether or not my ideas and hunches that I had in business school might well in fact apply, decided that the problem with the business really lay with strategic decisions being made at the top of the business. And I thought that I really had an... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa Royle (Courtesy Tilden... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Marquis Jet Takes Off
partners took to NetJets was a new concept — membership cards giving customers 25 hours of flight time for $109,000 and up. Functioning primarily as a sales and marketing organization, Marquis Jet needed to ink a partnership with NetJets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
(self-reliance)—proof that Indians could make their own products, without the British. Today, Godrej has a more than $4 billion global market for its products, which range from security appliances to furniture, soaps, and real estate. A... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
manifesting there? Mike Luca: Tech companies shape the information we see, the products we use, and the markets we participate in. This raises important societal questions about the decisions business leaders make. Is Airbnb facilitating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Pampered Chef. It was an opportunity to “get out of the boardroom and into the real world,” she says, as well as another moment in which foresight served her well. While at HBS, Britt Cool did a field study on the intersection of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
Music, a retailer based in the Midwest. “Its biggest profit drivers were rap and hip-hop,” he remarks. “I remember thinking that there was a real opportunity to cater more directly to that customer base.” To learn more about the business,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
they buy. And in this excerpt, Toffel and Pal talk about Common’s business model, the market opportunity, and what she’s learned about launching a climate venture. Courtesy Sanchali Pal READ MORE Mike Toffel: So let's talk a little bit... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
prices and expand access to life-saving therapies,” she says. After college, Rabah joined the biotech company Sio Gene Therapies, where she had the opportunity to speak with parents of children with Tay-Sachs disease, an ultra-rare... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
head of the department kept passing me over for the position because we didn't get along. When he finally did offer me the job, I didn't want to take it because I felt he didn't believe in me. Lew Sanders, who is now the chairman of Sanford Bernstein, said to me, 'Take... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
afforded her a detailed view of the industry’s challenges and opportunities and helped to inspire the founding of the National Trust. The nonprofit launched its test case in May 2021, with the purchase of 24 newspapers and websites in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to success. “Career forward” means keeping a focus on the future and recognizing that being good at your job is often not enough—that you should take every opportunity to boost your connections, take on “difficult” assignments, and work... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
The Lessons of All-Day Breakfast
had not voted on marketing this nationally, but we had to order equipment. So we were kind of getting ahead of ourselves. But I think as this demonstrated to us, we actually had the ability to take on a bit more risk in order to be fast.... View Details