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- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
Omar, Hesham (OPM 37, 2008), Adlina (OPM 46, 2015), and Adam Hafez Hesham Hafez, who was born in Egypt and grew up in Austria, launched the Paper Distribution International Group in Dubai while in his 30s, and within a decade he had grown... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
early-stage consumer tech company; and we didn’t have a good way to distribute our product. Today Teespring is doing the same thing Cameesa did. It’s worth hundreds of millions. The idea for TalkBin came from listening to our customers.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
way that’s responsive to the major differences from one country to another,” in terms of, for example, how retailing, or distribution or payment systems, work. But the core product or service should remain unchanged, he added, since that... View Details
- 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 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
alumni, sustaining a significant increase from last year. Reflecting strong returns and new endowment gifts, the market value of the HBS endowment and current-use funds increased by 19 percent, to a total of $1.76 billion. Current-use gifts and endowment View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
What is Web3?
secure, and decentralized framework where individuals own, and have greater control and sovereignty over, their digital assets and interactions within the digital realm. Blocks and Blockchains The foundational technology of Web3 is the blockchain, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
last year, which enabled her to spend six months in Singapore and six months in Shanghai conducting on-the-ground research and engaging with business leaders throughout the region. “I am interested in how globalization affects domestic View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
States was founded, a postal system (including roads) for the distribution of mail, copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and a plethora of newspapers and books were extant. The advent of electricity spawned the telegraph,... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
extra effort paid off. Revenue grew by $5.6 million over the previous year to $113 million. HBP and Executive Education helped to offset the $12 million drop in the School’s endowment distribution to $101 million. At the end of the fiscal... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
insight into sales and distribution by working with Shanghai Electric. “The hands-on learning deepened our understanding of working in cross-cultural teams,” she notes. Ultimately, she concludes, “I feel inspired to continue to explore... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
FairMarket is an online auction house that allows companies with surplus computers and computer components to sell to the highest bidder. "We make the distribution chain more efficient by acting as a centralized market for such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
distribution that is not so skewed as to leave basically half the world out of any ability to purchase the normal products of the free-market system. The system is enhanced when more people are brought into that process. In the book, you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
society actually works.” A more effective response, he contends, is a “strategy of emergence.” By this he means that relief agencies should first provide resources for survivors to manage their own recovery. For example, Curran helped direct a program that View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
energy-generating products to teach about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); inspire invention with limited resources; and encourage students to see life as a game that can be won regardless of age, religion, race, or gender. The products and curriculum... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Big Turnout for Business Plan Contest
The dream of starting their own business inspired 110 teams of students to enter the 2010 HBS Business Plan Contest, which awarded $170,000 in cash and in-kind services to winners and runners-up in separate business venture and social venture tracks. The final round of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
twenty-five million kids don't go to school. There are too many people dying due to lack of vaccines, and the world is showing an increasing inequity in terms of the distribution of assets and income. The rich are getting richer, and the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
classrooms to adventures and expeditions worldwide. The programs are distributed both online and via Newspapers in Education channels. I met with Wilson recently in the historic seaport of Salem, Massachusetts. Over breakfast, he... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
Massachusetts since July 2020, which is more than twice as many people served as last year at the same time. In response, we have drastically increased our distribution to levels we never thought possible. This summer GBFB View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
Like so many dot-com businesses these days, the Internet travel industry is, well, taking off. Among the e-travel elite are Travelocity.com, known for the depth of its travel content and bolstered by distribution relationships with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly