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- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
into. White: So you describe in the book a lot of the hedonism of the Mutiny club, but once you subtract the bathtub of champagne, you really are actually telling a business story, which is your background.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
carved out business opportunities despite formidable odds, including Madam C.J. Walker, a daughter of slaves who founded a million-dollar hair-care enterprise. Gail J. McGovern, president of Fidelity View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
looking for their first recording contract? Guess again. They're all members of the HBS Class of 1996. Before joining Indian Elvis, however, the only experience lead singer Raj Kapoor had in the music View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
entrepreneurship as a trip on a roller coaster, not a rocket ship,” says HBS professor and entrepreneurship expert Bill Sahlman, an early investor in E Ink and longtime adviser to Wilcox. “Very few companies go straight up, and E Ink is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
transnational road warriors frequently have a common grounding in education, professional background, and global popular and business culture. In the arena of international... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
total) and presents them in audio form, narrated by one of several professional readers. For any busy person who loves great journalism from a range of sources it is a godsend:... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
(MBA 2009) I received a copy of the late Professor Clay Christensen’s How Will You Measure Your Life? as a graduation gift from BSSE (Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise) this year. I highly recommend the book, regardless of where you are View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the ground. He'd arrived there, and he'd looked around, and he'd made that very ominous radio call that everyone in my command could hear, which was, we've located Turbine 33, and there are no survivors. Then we knew that this was going... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
from a franchise on the brink of leaving town in 1992 to toast of the town in 2010 is the stuff of Hollywood scripts. And indeed, when the lanky, loquacious executive talks about his lifelong history with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
church history, need updating to be more creditable. The Hilco Story: Discovering a Diamond in Our Own Backyard by Art Hilsinger (MBA 1952) Independently published Hilsinger offers a candid, clear-eyed look at the process of building a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes,... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
going to be living a 100-year life. So I wanted a framework that helped you understand both from a personal standpoint. But then, I began to think about this from a business standpoint: we need a multi-stage... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
private sector. She'd been living in New York City when she started the job, enjoying all the city has to offer, but had moved back to Egypt to get a ground-level view of the Fund's work. I didn't talk to Enan again until the summer of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
were facing. He radiated warmth while he shared his views on the future of education in modern business conduct. At the end of our encounter, I received a copy of A Delicate Experiment, a history of HBS,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
You know, just totally a different person than normal. I said, ‘How are things going?’ And she says, ‘You are not going to believe it. I have a contract where I am feeding thousands of oil-field workers three meals a day. She said, ‘Wade,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that... View Details