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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an economic force of major global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
prices. Incomes were soaring, and by some measures about 1,000 new cars were being added to Jakarta streets every day. Not long after his graduation in 2011, Makarim joined Germany-based e-commerce investment firm Rocket Internet as its Indonesia head. There he learned... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
job was in grocery retail and I knew the food space was where I wanted to be long-term. Food forms such a foundational part of life and I immediately found it meaningful to be part of the industry providing for people’s basic needs.” What... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
School named a new group of Leadership Fellows, graduating MBAs taking yearlong key positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations at salaries partially subsidized by HBS. The School also announced the recipient of the inaugural... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
the Silicon Valley model of moving fast and breaking things—an early Mark Zuckerberg mantra—just doesn’t work. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Remember what Alex said in episode one about how these challenges shape frontier... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
this year, and are close to our run rate goal of 500. We are building a community of overachievers and helping them to achieve even more,” says Stamps, who is, obviously, leading the group by example. Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977 TISCH: In... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
other birders might want to buy. Thayer hired a group of programmers to help him complete the project. “I thought I was about 90 percent done,” he recalls. “In hindsight, I was about 2 percent of the way there. It turned out that what... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
chairman emeritus of the Bajaj Group, announced that the firm would be donating Rs 200 crore (~$27 million) to address the “on-the-ground challenges” resulting from the surge in coronavirus cases in India. As noted in the Business Standard, the Baja View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
groups make it clear that there are always approaches and angles to a problem that you can't think of by yourself. They make you appreciate other people's points of view. That carries over into business, where it's advantageous to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
players. Significantly for the sports industry's economics, TV revenues helped fuel the explosion in player salaries. Like everyone else, athletes gaped at the size of TV contracts and - assisted by an emerging group of player agents -... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
individuals that are good representations of different careers. We group them all together, and when we have enough of those, we will build a career profile. So when we have enough consultants go through it, then we'll build a consulting... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
with people. People had long lists going all the way back to Vince Foster and Whitewater and fast forwarding to the Clintons taking furniture out of the White House, and the Benghazi and the emails, and the Clinton Foundation, and Donna... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a pitstop at fast food drive-through,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
Red Mocha Haraaz, from Yemen—there’s a select quantity of that every year from a small group of growers.” Résumé builder: “When I worked at Heinz, my team and I launched green ketchup. It didn’t survive as a product line, but it made a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
of fried eggs, was paid for by Congress, and there was quite a bit of criticism of it. Some people even made fun of it, said things like can have a side of hash browns with that, sort of thing. But you fast forward 30 years ahead and you... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
central belief is that humanity is meant to live in unity and harmony. As a leader of his local Spiritual Assembly, he conducts interfaith and intercultural (especially with Chinese) discussion groups and has continued to promote social... View Details