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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
have found—millennials prefer practicing yoga to hip hop music. Consumers will be drawn to, and pay for, those distinctions. The same could be said for clients at Bob Vaccaro’s Yoga by Donation, even with its pay-as-you-wish approach.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
encourages its clients to “look at production as a business and figure out what their competitive advantage is,” Tierney explains. He has led efforts to modernize the organization, which was founded in 1968 and is based in Connecticut.... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
companies I invest in." Laguë's own desire for active involvement is really what he calls his "entrepreneurship gene" kicking in. "I've always had a bent for the finance side, but I also like to play a strong role in building companies, putting teams together, and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
who was working as a senior project manager at Amazon, had become obsessed with understanding why the paper-heavy US immigration process remained so difficult and expensive. “Immigration is one of those overlooked areas where technology... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962), about 45 alumni from HBS, Harvard College, and MIT attended the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
entrepreneur who initially thought he’d have a career in the private sector before pursuing academia. He spent the summer between his first and second years as an MBA working as a consultant and discovered he loved the process of researching and answering questions for... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
parents in the last decade. What are people reacting to? SK: Certainly this idea of managing both productivity at work and having a good family life has been something that's been really important forever. And the reality is there are... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
they were trying to use it for things we hadn’t expected them to,” Medina recalls. The software also lacked the guardrails necessary to prevent a user from accidentally deleting important records. One day, a client called with exactly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
clients on e-commerce, supply chain, delivery, and global postal transformation. Here, he fields your questions about what the emerging race to your front door means for the future of last-mile delivery. Will 3D printing do to the Postal... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
SOCIAL MEDIA James Kondo Managing Director, East Asia, Twitter M. James Kondo 103 alumni work in social media 41 at Facebook 31 at LinkedIn 7 at Twitter High Tech: 135 at Google 104 at Microsoft 23 at Apple "The simplicity of our look and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
talks to Dionisio Garza Sada (MBA ’08), program manager for autoparts manufacturer Nemak. Photographs by Selma Fernandez & Marcela Taboada There are no cold calls here. No laptops, or blackboards, or Sky Deck. Thousands of miles from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in assets, managed on behalf of an exclusive group of private... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Asia-based old economy and new economy firms. The development of supplier and client relationship management in Japanese companies. Business frontiers are being pushed back in countries throughout the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls them — in eight hundred branch... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
According to Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions, two international students - one from France and one from China - were among the School's inaugural class of approximately 25. Since that time, thousands of international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
Born in Vienna, Austria, Edgar Koerner grew up in New Orleans and New York. A former partner at Kuhn Loeb and managing director at Lehman Brothers, he has for many years been active in pro bono work, particularly with The Children’s Aid... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says Clifford (MBA 1956), a former... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
business; last October, he was named chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting, a unit of Marsh & McLennan that provides a full range of services to corporate clients to help them avoid, plan for, and View Details