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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
something around that. And so that evening, we cornered Tom Eisenmann at the Sheraton Hotel in Palo Alto and literally sketched out—about the most cliche thing you can do—sketched out on a napkin how Cloudflare would work. And said will you be our advisor for an View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults by Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington (MBA 1982) Flatiron Books Parenting never ends. The high school and college years are an extended rollercoaster of academics, friends, first... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
demands of increasingly sophisticated Chinese consumers is a more complicated challenge. One approach Chinese manufacturers are using is to acquire companies around the world in order to get fast access to the technologies they need to modernize their View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
says Gonzalez. “Most of the doctors staying with us have moved from other parts of Spain to Madrid to reinforce frontline care.” He and his team also launched #AYUDANOSAAYUDAR (#HELPUSHELP), to enlist other companies to donate products... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
MBA 2011) were semifinalists in the 2010 contest with FashionStake, a “community-curated marketplace for independent fashion” that circumvents the traditional department store model by giving consumers a voting voice to determine which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their own. The state subsidizes residents who have incomes that meet or somewhat exceed federal poverty guidelines. An independent public authority, known informally as the Health Connector, helps individuals and small businesses choose... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
impossible for primary breadwinners; the kids learned independence early on. So here we are, 25 years after graduation. We’ve lived in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Sweden, Brazil, and now Malaysia (our sons are grown). My conclusion is that it is... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
stick needs to be emphasized a little bit more. Unilever announced that they're going to spend a billion euros attempting to align their products with their customer's values. They're spending that money on ways to cut fossil fuels from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
difficult to do. It takes several hours, and there is a lot of opinion masquerading as fact. The media space is becoming more and more crowded every day, and in many ways that’s why we have to exist. We view ourselves as independent in a... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
investment (one made as managing director at Global Ventures), demonstrating that impact and profit aren't mutually exclusive. "I want founders and entrepreneurs to be wealth creators and invest in their communities and families," Enan says. "And I also want to have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
you have a massive production of lithium-ion batteries––that’s the technology of choice today––which brings scale costs way down. So, as EVs grow, that’s going to drive down lithium-ion prices. “You’re going to have a huge demand for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
presentations on stage, whether they are Shakespeare, Beethoven, or The Lion King, depend on a business backstage. This book provides an overview of both the product on stage and the industry that makes it possible. While the industry's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
companies now find their best customers in China and India, where U.S. technology products are in high demand. More importantly, the free flow of ideas and capital have created entrepreneurial hot spots around the globe, challenging... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
insight into products and a business. This is what the health care industry was lacking, she realized: a system designed from the patient’s point of view. It would be better for patients and medical staff, “and it could be a nice... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
design; 27 proven “plays” from the UXReactor playbook to put concepts into practice, and game planning examples to execute at different levels of an organization. A comprehensive and practical book for business leaders, design leaders, View Details