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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
(Above: photo by Rick Pryce) Bill Tai (MBA 1987) is as renowned for his devotion to kiteboarding as for his savvy investments. Ten years ago, the “Kite VC,” as he is known in Silicon Valley, married his two passions with the debut of ACTAI, an invitation-only... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
Robert S. ("Bob") Gardella cheerfully admits that he found his position as assistant director of Alumni Career Services (ACS) in the most unlikely way: through an ad in the newspaper. Now his job is to help give HBS alumni the skills and knowledge to View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Corey, Lombard Remembered
marketing, distribution, and organizational strategy. He also headed the Division of Research for six years, overseeing an expansion of the School’s commitment to research and the launch of the HBS Press. Corey, a 1941 graduate of Amherst... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
kitchen) “They were self-taught, and they were amazing. It really showed me the promise of the people of eastern Kentucky,” says Marietta, who later drew on the same talent pool to launch Mountain Tech Media, a digital marketing firm that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
together, Mitchell and Humpierres launched a line of microwavable heating pads filled with cherry pits. “It’s a very niche market,” Humpierres acknowledges, but once they saw that it was also successful, they decided to diversify. In June... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
different architectures, they lack a shared technical language, which makes it near impossible for anyone without a PhD in physics to access their potential. Aliro was launched to help dismantle some of these challenges, serving as a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
phones, and focused the company on the critical launch of its next iteration of handsets, BlackBerry 10. The phones came in two versions: first launched was a touch-screen phone designed to attract... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
complement its farm-equipment business. And Goldman Sachs and many others are using digital technologies to reimagine their businesses. In this book, Gupta provides a workable framework for following their lead. He knows what works and what doesn't. Instead of dabbling... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
discussed the question with Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), who had just launched Whitespace, a venture lab and startup incubator. The women then recruited fellow first-year MBAs Mike Chang (MBA 2014), Jessica Beck (MBA 2015), and Okalo Ikhena... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
champion of Asian studies since that first visit to China, noted in his welcoming remarks that HBS opened its Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong in 1999, creating a launching pad for case writing and research from Indonesia to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
he recalls. Within months, Wyman exited the firm, but several years passed before he found his new calling, what he regards as the transformational outcome of his HBS experience. Building on their previous experiences in Rwanda, the Wymans View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Henderson notes that there are about 200 HBS-authored cases on the environment extant, with more to come at the rate of about 30 to 40 a year. “We’ve launched several new MBA courses and are looking at how we can get more involved in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
Washington, DC. Launched in 2011, Knock out!, which also makes products for men, uses a patented “No Trace” technology. “Entering the contest and presenting before the judges helped me to step back and define where I want to take my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
merchants to build relationships with their customers,” says Mikitani, Rakuten’s founder, chairman, and CEO. Amazon offers neither experience, he adds. Launched in 1997, Rakuten’s online shopping mall now hosts more than 37,000 merchants,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
When you think of kids and music these days, it’s easier to imagine Chopin and Elgar spinning in their graves than getting any airtime. But move over, J.Lo — a classical music radio show, driven by youthful performers and listeners, is rapidly climbing the charts. From... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Notebook
sign up for services such as telephone, cable, etc. But there wasn’t one. A friend said that would be a fantastic business, so we started researching the opportunity and ultimately launched GetConnected to pursue it. Best decision: We... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
the lab. In 2016 Lee and four Harvard cofounders launched DZD to apply genome sequencing and machine learning to the problem of growing antibiotic resistance. Their technology helps doctors diagnose life-threatening infections, like... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
deliver programming by then newly launched HBX (now called Harvard Business School Online). Fast forward six years and online learning—and the need for it—has evolved significantly, leading the School to expand and move the operation onto... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Hawthorne facility’s multiple and diverse production units made most of America’s telephones and related equipment. Four years after the company launched a study of its workers’ productivity, a perplexed Hawthorne official invited HBS... View Details