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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
buildings. Are there properties that stand out for you in terms of what they were, and what they’ve become? One of my favorites is the Hotel Monaco in Washington, D.C. It was the original General Post Office, built in the early 19th... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
of newspapers and magazines. And yet, as print ads flee online for pennies on the dollar — and newsprint prices jump while circulation and newsstand sales slump — these enterprises have never seen their financial prospects dim so rapidly.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
liability, but I have paid nonetheless. I believe that people who have money should pay some amount in taxes. We all have an obligation to our generation and the next to give some of our money back so that we can keep this country going... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb
so much global liquidity, too many dollars are chasing too few opportunities. “What’s going to prove me wrong?” Initially, Sahlman found little resistance to his gloomy forecast. “It’s an extremely hit-driven business that’s becoming more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
tell you, the future of health care. Today it can still be extraordinarily difficult for a patient to, say, get an MRI at a nearby community hospital—where it could also be hundreds or thousands of dollars cheaper—and then have it sent to... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of black students—including HBS’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
million people on its payrolls, the restaurant industry is the nation's largest private-sector employer, attracting 46 percent of every dollar spent on food. Despite these statistics, the industry (with the exception of a few star chefs... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
competition so that I could then win some money that I could use to fund the company. Morrell: Aldi and his team won that competition and $25,000 dollars for the company. It was also their introduction to the Omidyar Network, their first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
also to the general public and people in the political world who were making key decisions.” The book was scheduled to come out in 1978, but delays pushed it back to 1979, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. “In 1978, I don’t... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
they’re becoming. When we look around the world, there’s been a long-standing tradition of recognizing that age 18 is the most formative moment in a young person’s life. It’s true developmentally—the neuroscience will tell us that. And then we look at cultures and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that boards and executives quickly find ways around, with the assistance of lawyers, accountants, lobbyists, and bankers. Billions of shareholders’ dollars are spent to forestall or circumvent more effective reforms. Even worse, people... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
hearing loss. AUGUST 27 A startup founded by second-year MBA students Shrey Kapoor and Chrys Nikopoulos (both MBA 2021) has helped over 500 self-employed Americans access federal dollars during the pandemic. The pair launched FinGig this... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
a clearer set of political guidelines today—certainly with Biden as president—than you've had in the past. And three, I think the younger generation just demands it. So you have a generation of people who... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
and at any stage in the entrepreneurial journey. We’re about sustained, generational investment and wealth creation to build stronger Black communities—which is better for everyone, whether you’re Black or not. We have 54,000 square feet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social realignment. The main focus is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
entrepreneurs who had built $10 million to $50 million companies, and I realized, “Oh, they’re not superhuman. I can actually do this.” So I started thinking, what business can I bring to e-commerce? Luxury beauty. We raised a million View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
NFL, Nokia, Sony, UPS, and United Airlines. "Well-crafted programs have generated hundreds of millions of dollars of incremental revenue for some of the world's leading marketers, while ill-conceived... View Details