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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
year, which attracted some five hundred attendees to this year's session in September. Said conference organizer Brian Carlton Byrd (MBA '92), "We want to help foster the same investment climate for New York's Silicon Alley that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
model seems to be catching on. In the first run, Goldbank attracted over twenty thousand bids for products such as brand-name electronics, cosmetics, golf equipment, and automobiles, racking up $500,000 in sales. In the second round, the... View Details
- Profile
Funa Maduka
Importance of educating leaders "The biggest weakness I saw in nonprofits," Funa says, "was in management education. I saw many managers with good ideas, but not the skills for executing them." Attracted to HBS'... View Details
- Profile
Benjamin Story
Buzz Lightyear attraction in Disneyland Paris, and as a producer within Disney's virtual-reality technology group. "On one level, we were creating a fully-functioning simulation for a new attraction, the Radiator Springs Racers,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2024
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges
the late William F. Connell (MBA 1963)—experiential learning has been incorporated into 11 extended field courses in the Elective Curriculum this year, attracting about two-thirds of the Class of 2016. Six of these courses involve... View Details
- Blog
Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN
our programs in India and Boston; they wanted very much to come to an on-campus program but had to wait a bit. WHO WAS MOST ATTRACTED TO VIRTUAL PROGRAMS? Pre-pandemic, some executives, especially women with young children, had been... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
service. As for customers, in addition to making purchases, they use Rakuten for online auctions and chats about the site's vendors. According to Business Week (July 7, 2000), Rakuten, founded in 1997, has 3,100 vendors, attracts some 70... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building business for a better Brazil
Heinz, and Burger King. “Create a big dream. Keep it simple, easily understood, and measured. Attract the right people who work well together. Measure results consistently,” says Lemann. “You can create, run, or improve anything with this... View Details
- Web
George Pierce Baker Courtyard | About
attract a more diverse student body, retooling of the Advanced Management Program (AMP), an increase in international activities, and the establishment of a joint JD/MBA degree in collaboration with Harvard Law School. While Baker was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
It is also a way to attract sponsors—necessary because the group charges no membership fees. “Innovation and reinvention are imperative for everything we will do,” he says. “We will provide our members access to world-class resources,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
leadership? Quansoo teed up the question nicely. “At some point, this could become a problem attracting the employees Microsoft wants to attract It is refreshing to see a corporation’s leadership actually... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
(For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey said that housing costs were a serious deterrent to attracting businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
its own inventory. Today, Amazon is a classic example of “platformization”: The company grew from an online bookstore into a vast technological hub that provides logistics and advertising to third-party retailers and public cloud services underlying much of the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing
Highly Diversified Manufacturing For highly diversified manufacturing companies recruiting for LDPs, Renee recommends companies consider joining the Manufacturing Panel held in the fall as a way to attract candidates. While there are... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
York-based hedge fund must decide whether to invest in TravelCenters of America (TA), a recent spin-off from a U.S.-based real estate investment trust. The case confronts students with the question: To what extent is this spin-off opportunity View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Diane Esber
knew it was the school I wanted; in fact, it was the only one I applied to," says Dianne. Three things especially attracted her: the campus, the classroom experience and section life. "Most business schools just have a few... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
groups attract the necessary financial investments. “There is no blueprint, as every member is at a different place,” observes Goodwin-Groen. “Our role is to help create opportunities for investment in this sector.” One of the biggest... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
business, he just didn't know when or how. "Dad was good about exposing me to business-never pressuring me into it but always making it seem attractive and interesting," he recalls. After becoming a star basketball player at Yale as an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
booms now being deployed in the Gulf and in the Dalian oil spill in China. Opflex was conceived when oil-contaminated flood waters threatened to shut down Cellect's upstate New York plant in 2006. The spongy green, reusable Opflex was later reformulated to repel water... View Details