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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
a huge difference in economies," Nolan stated, adding that since drugstore.com entered the field, many more health-related Internet companies have followed. "Once a dot-com comes into an industry, the industry is never the same," he said.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
jumped in. One day I was running a company, with an office and employees and a grand strategy, and shortly thereafter, I was sitting alone in my home office, interviewing Americans about how they were voting and why, digging into everything from how they grew up to how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
raised $93,853 from 421 investors earlier this year largely by pitching the investment to its existing user base. “It’s hard to do due diligence on a private company,” says Hofmann. “If you’re a user you’re probably already convinced of the View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
yoga “gurus” she encountered in New York. In 2008, after Stiles opened Strala Yoga, the popular doctor and self-help author Deepak Chopra hired her as his personal yoga instructor, a huge endorsement. Stiles, he said, was making yoga cool. “We are basically breaking... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Knowledge Web site, and a dedicated effort to identify willing IT volunteers through the local clubs and alumni associations. Global Alumni Conferences These meaningful and rewarding conferences -- last June's Berlin gathering was an enormous success -- have taken on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
words of Robert Solow, a Nobel laureate in economics and an adviser to the study, “By far the most important factor in that growth is Wal-Mart.” Second, most of the value created by the company is actually pocketed by its customers in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Primary.com’s policy says that employees are free to use their Fridays however they wish. Get a haircut, take the kids to the orthodontist or watch TV while they’re at school, or possibly finish up a work task. “It’s all fair game,” Bernard says. The company also View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
and then added basic materials and aerospace and defense.” After seven years leading teams at Vista, Kovatch joined Covanta, a renewable energy company where she was responsible for building an innovation program as well as a marketing... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
what's important to you and what you stand for; values are critical to success and happiness. Get yourself a compass and forget the clock. It is far more important to know in what direction you are headed than how fast you are going."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
cookies? Fresh out of HBS I opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston. Every morning I watched thousands of people walk by; no one bought cookies before noon. So I added fresh croissants and baguettes, two items that were not in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
believe as if you were an owner? (2) Do you take action based on those beliefs? (3) Do you focus on adding value to others and take responsibility for the effect of your actions on others? Leadership is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
grappled with whether we should cancel," said HBSAAA president Ken Powell (MBA '74). "We decided to go ahead because we wanted to contribute to New York's economic recovery as well as unite to support one another in difficult times," View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
about how good bankers added value to the economy. That’s how I came to love banking.” Still, looking back, Quainton can see that HBS was also preparing him for ministry. “I am an off-the-charts introvert,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
ready-to-heat soups, shipping an average of thirty thousand gallons each week. Shafir - himself a study in constant motion - plans to move his operation to a roomier location in nearby Chelsea early this year. Despite adding a $2.5... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
foundational understanding of the pathways to a board seat and how to create a value proposition, while the second webinar focused on creating a board resume and networking. “The goal was to have a tactical conversation about how to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
the foundations of these communities.” The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Akuete, CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity and therefore lack access to... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and invested at a slow pace,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
sociocultural anthropology at UNC, Chapel Hill, and founded wdydwyd? — an online meme through which 2 million people have answered the question, Why do you do what you do? Some alumni have added new reflections on their original... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young