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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
Founder and Chairman, FiBA Group Download Özyeğin profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1945 Born, Izmir, Turkey 1966 Elected student body president at Oregon State 1972 Returns to Turkey for military service 1987 View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food sales spiked at the outset of... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
of manufacturing, against the background of the evolving U.S.-China trade challenges. The talk was followed by a Q & A session and reception. Shih shared his expertise in manufacturing and product development across multiple industries to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Saliterman—a 33-year-old veteran of the Bush White House and Republican National Committee—promoted new tools that permitted campaigns to run ads for a select group of voters before YouTube videos. After moving to launch Snapchat’s first... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
was clear: launching this project became my priority. “We definitely need these types of initiatives! The policies required to address climate change require broad support to be implemented. That is impossible when only 16 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
as well as additional funding for activities such as due diligence, market research, and other tasks necessary to determine the best route for product commercialization. Since its launch in 2013, fellows... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
opportunity amid countless obstacles. The sale of ed tech products has been on the rise in recent years—with an estimated $150 billion in global expenditures on digital learning in 2018, a number predicted, pre-pandemic, to double by... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
venturehe had created to develop software for the emerging handheld device market. In Hawkins, Dubinsky found a product and technical genius, and in Dubinsky, Hawkins found a savvy businesswoman who had a knack for building companies... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
become one of the first female executives at Sports Illustrated in 1983. She had acquired a passion for sports from her father and "had been a Sports Illustrated fan for years and really enjoyed the magazine," she recalls. Moore founded Sports Illustrated for Kids in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
needed to bring global perspectives to classroom discussions. Today, over half of all HBS cases have an international focus. Raising the bar on its global mission, HBS this year required the first-year class to travel abroad to work on a View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Cassidy: At Google, a more intense and frenetic experience than launching his own companies. Art by Joe Ciardiello Related Links Watch a video of Mike Cassidy explaining his approach to rapid View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
for Nourish, a patented line of spill-proof bottled water for infants and toddlers that we had already launched in airport shops and specialty stores. The product flew off the shelves. The national retailer... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
presence to Jay.” The Rally Fighter, pictured above, is Local Motors’ most well-known vehicle, with appearances in the movie Transformers: Age of Extinction and the racing video game Forza Horizon 2. Local Motors launched on March 25,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce acknowledged to be genetically modified since the short-lived Flavr Savr tomato, introduced more than 20 years ago. The decision was driven by the economics of... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
branding is one priority. What else do you focus on? The company is built on product innovation. Rick Alden had the idea that launched Skullcandy while he was riding a chairlift. His phone rang, and because... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
Clubs News Clubs News Black Businesses Get Pandemic Survival Tips Via Webinar Series The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA), in partnership with Steven Rogers (MBA 1985), the MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration (emeritus), View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Smith. Not only has Starbucks created a "third place" for the customer between work and home, but it has also launched a number of environmental and community-oriented initiatives. "We have a great culture in this company," Smith... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
ahead of time by participants, Haley said the pair was able to run live searches based on their immediate research needs to demonstrate research tools. Alumni asked about specific topics, such as wanting to find statistics on the worldwide View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley