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- 23 Jan 2020
- News
Bringing Education Back Home
a set of technical skills and, particularly, marketing leadership. We basically branded our story: Two Harvard grads coming back to our hometown, trying to build a better education system. That was our sales pitch. We took a business... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Rice University, 1973 B.S., Electrical Engineering Rice University, 1974 M.S., Electrical Engineering LESSONS FROM HBS “The Human Behavior in View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
billion in disability benefits a year, Eldridge says. Gain Life’s existing wellness market has good prospects, although it’s highly competitive, “almost to the point of commoditization,” he adds, and the sales cycles can last up to a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
centerpiece event of the WSA, a fifteen-year-old organization whose mission is to foster a supportive environment for women at the Business School and to provide services that help them to succeed as students and in their careers. The... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
African soul star Angélique Kidjo, and country icon Dolly Parton — and partnered with the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a national organization focused on ending domestic violence, and RESPOND Inc., one of the oldest domestic violence... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
five-year plan, and I can't analyze things with spreadsheets. I get bored." The same has held true for how Wyss has approached his career. Asked if he ever thought he would spend thirty years building a medical device company into a $2.3 billion View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire, work hard to make the double bottom line a reality. Founded in 1976, Lyme Timber Company is a timberland investment management organization... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
wounded, one seriously,” he says. “I was the only one not touched.” Berkley swore to live a life of service if he got home safely. Now 99 years old, Berkley can say he’s delivered on this promise, having contributed to a number of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
that department stores organized cosmetics by brand, making comparisons difficult, she was determined to offer consumers a better option. “I wanted to build an empire in the beauty industry,” says Beck, who oversees Bluemercury’s 195... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley where she is responsible for increasing revenue generation and client connectivity and penetration across the Wealth Management, Investment Banking and Sales... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
(PMD 58, 1989) Gaia Design should use an already established logistics company such as UPS, FedEx, or DHL. Although the e-commerce infrastructure as a whole is not good in Mexico, these organizations are large enough to drive world-class... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
current drought of in-person events. Be human. “Firms that connect emotionally with customers and employees are expected to perform better than firms that just connect physically.” Dettol soap’s #HandWashChallenge generated billions of views on TikTok; since the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
season ticket sales and sponsorships, actually improved. O'Neil was recently named CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment or HBSE. A holding company that's comprised of several sports properties including the 6ers, the New Jersey... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to Wal-Mart’s domestic View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
callers the opportunity to purchase the relevant CDs. The *CD service "enables real-time impulse buying," Chen told the Philadelphia Inquirer (February 11, 1999). "It is a lost sale if you can't act on it." Currently being tested in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Witwatersrand and then earned a master’s degree in finance from the University of Pretoria. From there he took on a series of positions in financial services, including head of trading, head of sales and marketing, and vice president,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
think about the ballets we’re presenting as part of a portfolio,” says Hodges, who joined the organization in 2014. “Taking that approach makes it possible to balance our mission of developing new works while meeting financial... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in their partner’s city. Seoul was... View Details
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
water bottle that marries fashion and function.” The company donates 10% of sales to WaterAid, a 501(c)(3) organization that improves access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to View Details