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- 19 Jan 2024
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The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Speed has gotten a pretty bad rap, says Anne Morriss (MBA 2004). The Silicon Valley mantra of moving fast and breaking things has led to waves of high-profile... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
to HBS, citing the School's mission to create socially responsible leaders as “a huge pull.” “I knew most of the students would be more interested in private-sector concerns than international ones,” says Dasgupta. “But as future leaders,... View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands of opportunities to create and strengthen... View Details
- 01 May 2023
- News
Yahoo Acquires Alumni Startup Wagr
fans that have connected over fantasy sports for decades," Malavé said in the announcement. "The unique combination of Yahoo's scale and engagement creates opportunities for virtuous product loops between sports media and gaming. Joining Yahoo allows us to continue... View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
students then receive 20 percent of the profits over five years in the form of scholarship funds. Late last year PD got a celebrity boost when Bobo met former Yankees star Alex Rodriguez at a Jennifer Lopez concert in Las Vegas. A-Rod and J. Lo both related to Bobo’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
satisfied Mikitani’s ambition to empower his homeland. “Our mission is to be the number one Internet company in the world,” he says, dressed casually in his Tokyo office. That goal is a key factor in the decision he made in 2010 to... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
economics or an accounting course, and I told Bill Donaldson, ‘I don’t have any idea what you do at DLJ, but watching all these young men and women on a mission they’re so excited. Whatever they’re doing, I want to do it.’ ” Tough start:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Kumar Mahadeva
Mahadeva Photo courtesy Cognizant Cognizant Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: CTSH) founder, chairman, and CEO Wijayaraj A. (“Kumar”) Mahadeva explains how his company can help businesses still reeling from “post-bubble hangovers.” “We keep the View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
to another important facet of the McKinsey culture--giving back to society. "I've always spent 15 to 20 percent of my time helping nonprofit organizations whose mission and leadership I've felt passionate about, among them Wesleyan, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
reachable only through disruptive computer calculation and inaccessible to engineers' "creativity". Thomas Baudin, MBA 1997, CEO & Founder Region: Europe Globalcare The firm’s mission is to advance international healthcare mobility. It is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
to support the people and the institutions that had made a difference in my life. Obviously, HBS was one of them.” Supporting HBS fellowships and including the School in his estate plan, Ketchum says, are both very important to him—because he believes in the School’s... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the redesign of the Alumni Bulletin and an early stage redesign of the alumni website; and welcomes the School's new Chief Digital Officer, Katia Walsh. Donors continue to demonstrate their belief in the School's mission and priorities by... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
“The mission statement of Endeavor is to create an economic multiplier effect in markets where it’s difficult for small entrepreneurs to become really large and successful,” says Ayala. “And the way they create this multiplier effect is... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
Eurotrek program also featured opportunities to make contact with major companies and entrepreneurs from a number of countries on the Continent. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark is an enthusiastic supporter of the career trek concept. "The mission... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
part of what’s driving consolidation across the country,” Hansen Shapiro observes. The National Trust used a leveraged buyout to acquire the titles, which will continue with their mission under a new public benefit corporation that is... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
for. And that’s when the trouble began. Basically I changed the mission of the business from being a focused coffee and donut shop company to becoming a franchise business. Feeling that a 60-time multiple was extraordinarily intoxicating,... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade