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- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
over, but the impact of those few is being diminished by the fact that you have so many people who can get their ideas out in myriad ways.” Next: Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) — Instilling Production with Principles » View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
business teams experience. “We pursued the idea for the case,” he says, “after Scott, who is a West Point grad and former teacher there, told me about his friend, the Army crew coach, Stas Preczewski. One season, Coach P, as he’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
applicability, he has created a body of work that is required reading for students, academicians, practitioners, and political leaders around the world," Clark said. Clark noted that the impact of Porter's ideas has long stretched beyond... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Industry-Related Clubs Offer Alumni a New Resource
are able to interact and exchange ideas on all aspects of their industry." The club has sponsored a wide array of events, including local programs around the country featuring prominent health-care leaders and an annual alumni health-care... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- News
Tea’s Time
not just an idea anymore.” Based in San Francisco, Tea’s sales are projected to hit $25 million in 2011. Sold in some department stores (Nordstrom’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s) and children’s clothing boutiques, Tea has seen... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
entrepreneurs and slowing deal volume for VCs. But change cannot wait, says Barna, just one of many alumni and academics in the entrepreneurship and investing sectors who advocate steps toward inclusivity like the ideas offered here.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
former professors if they’d heard of a new technology that could be the basis of a start-up. Faculty member Jeff Rayport threw out a few ideas before Wilcox got specific: He was looking for something that would change the world. So in... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
change relatively painlessly. We’re already going through so much upheaval. Let's use this moment to be productive. Jen Flint: Are there ideas or lessons you think that people who work on climate can learn from the response to this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Jack Dorsey of Twitter: February 8, 2007: Seems niche. How many people want to tell everyone randomly what they’re doing, and how many really want to look at it? Of course, what I missed was that a brilliant entrepreneur can take a niche View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2022
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
conceive of the idea that hygiene products were as fundamental to health and well-being as food. But the pandemic changed that: Suddenly, everyone understood the importance of a bar of soap; the organization distributed 1.5 million in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Turning Point: One Story at a Time
turning point; marrying Amanda in London in 2011 was another. For my family, the idea that I had met somebody who I would want to spend the rest of my life with was hugely comforting. But our wedding was also covered by a tabloid back in... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
currently focused on recruiting students from Syria and northern Iraq. Elsewhere, DeFehr has developed an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal. Business opportunities in that part of the world,... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to invest in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Stavropoulos, MBA class of 1997. Any ideas about how to help, let's say young teenagers or kids sort of recognize and potentially arm themselves against FOMO and FOBO? McGinnis: This is a very important topic because it's just so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
messages to be clear, simple, and true. “It had to have that lyrical, poetic element to it that makes it memorable. The core of it had to be no more than 15 seconds,” he says, “and ideally it was 10.” Ultimately, one of the biggest challenges was getting everyone to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
and I ended up Looping the course. 1985F put brown paper bags over our heads during a Friday-afternoon class. The idea was to mess with the professor, who styled himself a partier and lady’s man. Namecards were removed and bags put over... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
practice. We put our ideas into practice, see how they work, and learn from that how to make them even better." —Deborah Blagg Prescription: Make Medicine Personal A writer and scientist with a PhD in biophysics from Johns Hopkins,... View Details