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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Building Your Own Dream Team
This era of social networking would surely have been invented by Keith Ferrazzi (MBA ’92) had it not sprouted on its own. Ferrazzi is well known as a professional networker in the best (or worst, depending on whom you’re talking to) HBS tradition — his Rolodex is as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
the news with a record-setting trimaran voyage from San Francisco to Boston. Before long, I was on the phone with him, arranging an interview that produced a lengthy feature article in the December 1993 Bulletin. Last spring, Wilson made... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
impact in the country dramatically. She was instrumental in the NYSE listing of Wipro; in facilitating nationwide cellular phone service through a deal involving the Tata and Birla families and AT&T; and in a number of privatizations.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Just Doing His Job
broadcast and satellite technology “had a clear influence on the man who went on to make billions in Malaysia’s mobile phone, satellite, and pay TV business,” the Morning Herald wrote. Backed by a fortune said to be around $10 billion,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
microchip: “I remember that it was perceived by lots of people as affecting only the computer industry; but, of course, it’s led to the cellular phone and the internet, and it has changed all our lives. The same is going to happen here,”... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
School of Business. At least one doctoral candidate is experiencing a slight detour in his course of study, but happily so. Last November, Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002) took a phone call from former mentor and HLS professor Elizabeth... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
self-service kiosk system that evaluates and buys back used cell phones and MP3 players from consumers for cash. Found currently in southern California, Kaplan expects this concept to roll out as well. Kaplan recently returned to HBS for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
companies and, well, straight men. In the offices of a Cambridge software firm, the Deckingers are discussing their vision for Jess, Meet Ken with a team of mobile app designers. Their target audience is single, heterosexual women, ages... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
option to her online consignment ceramics offerings, Giridharadas recouped about half of her investment within four months. Now she sees a bigger opportunity: Party supply rentals were a $5 billion industry in the United States in 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
investments in tech companies to help extend their runway and put them on a path to scale when the downturn subsides,” says Dober. Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), founder of the nonprofit Fashion Girls for Humanity, is mobilizing fashion View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
encompasses the birth of the consumer society, the shift away from an industrial economy, and the decline of the social contract between companies and workers. So the Times articles were chosen — from a huge array of possibilities — to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
affordable in Africa through microfinance and mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region: Africa Vention: A platform that allows businesses to design and order industrial... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
record companies as well. "With digital transmission, you can send music over phone lines and cable modems without losing quality," says HBS associate professor John Sviokla, who has studied the music View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
joining the mobile network every month,” says Mittal. “Mobile phones have moved from an aspirational product to a mass product in a decade.” At the Tata Group, engineers are at work on a $2,000 car, the next... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
High Adventure
right now I’m looking out the window at my nine-year-old daughter feeding a baby deer,” says Beilharz in a phone interview. “That’s a huge change from the affluent neighborhood in Austin where we once lived.” Indeed, life was, for many... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; ecotourism; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
Costa Rica showing interest, and diverse, with corporations considering Agora to help manage shareholder and employee communications. “People want to be heard, but they have no channel,” says Sze. “We’re trying to fix democracy, one town hall at a time—or even just one... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
project that will employ locals in a traditional handicraft business. The effort is centered in southeast Turkey, a region known for its production of high-quality Adiyaman carpets. By building a sustainable industrial and commercial base... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
greatest success factor: disciplined leadership. The authors relate the stories of executives who have successfully broken through the barriers of growth to identify what they all have in common. They supplement these findings with decades of View Details