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- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's entrepreneurial hot spots. If it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
Second-year student Carlin (“Carly”) Janson divides her time between studying at HBS and managing the Catalyst Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship (Catalyst Alliance), the Cambridgebased social enterprise consultancy she founded while working at Accenture. Catalyst... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
MOON: “Differentiation is not a formula. Rather, it’s a way of thinking.” Professor Youngme Moon, who teaches one of HBS’s most popular electives (Consumer Marketing), has recently published her first book. In Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd (Crown Business),... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
continue to make decisions that miss opportunities to make all parties better off. We will end up with inefficient methods of creating a cleaner environment. We will continue to miss opportunities to provide more services for the poor at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
open doors, making professional and personal lives easier to navigate and translating to higher earnings. As a result, 36.5 percent of children born to parents in the top 20 percent of income distribution remain there—twice the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
LAMAGNA: A fondness for novelty and gadgets, but a commitment to politics and public policy as well. Dal LaMagna (MBA ’70) says he’s writing a memoir titled Failing to Get Ahead, the Washington Post (May 30, 2008) reported. “It’s pretty funny,” LaMagna said. “I learned... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
Olivier Dumon by Robert S. Benchley "I believe in an evidence-based, data-driven, iterative product-development process." How many of us can reduce the central truths we've learned in business to a single sentence? Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) can, and does. "Every word... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Anthony Harris Photo courtesy of Anthony Harris by Francis Storrs On April 14, 2013, a sheriff's deputy pulled over a truck cruising down Interstate 55 in Mississippi. What started as a routine traffic stop became more serious when the deputy noticed scratches around... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Challengers
All due respect to the Red Sox, but we think some of Boston's best pitching in May occurred on Western Avenue, not Yawkey Way. As part of a trio of entrepreneurial challenges hosted by the i-lab, six HBS students and two soon-to-be alumni—representing five... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP), which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Meg's World
It’s been hard for eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA ’79) to stay out of the limelight lately. Fortune put her on the cover of its August 11 edition and named eBay eighth among the magazine’s “100 Fastest-Growing Companies.” CBS MarketWatch named Whitman the recipient of its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Can white-collar corporate America do business with “green” environmentalists? Roger Ullman (MBA ’89) thinks so. Ullman, who worked in the mergers and acquisitions division of Merrill Lynch for twelve years, retired from his post as a managing director last year to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market. “Although not a scientist... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ideas against AIDS
CLAWSON AND VIRAVAIDYA: Early allies in the fight against AIDS. Photo courtesy Curtis Clawson In Thailand, anti-AIDS activist Mechai Viravaidya is known for getting not only Santas and tollbooth operators to hand out condoms, but traffic police as well, in a campaign... View Details