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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
to "double the vase life," she says, of regular florist fare. The idea for the business (whose name refers to botanical flower terms) first sprouted, Owades recalls, "when I noticed that the wholesale flower market in San Francisco seemed... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
of his new book, Life is a Startup, which Wasserman—who was recently named dean of Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business—discusses here with associate editor Jen Flint. READ MORE Flint: One of the things that you describe in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business environment of continual change,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
system that pays for quantity without regard to quality and opaque regulations, in fact one study found that nearly 80 percent of the rules patients and physicians cited as barriers to great care were basically rumors. Plus, we have a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
markets around the globe: What can Silicon Valley learn from your experiences? And what happens if the Startup Capital of the World ignores these lessons? READ MORE Nicole Poindexter: My name is Nicole Poindexter (MBA 1997) and I'm the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
when a Philadelphia museum runs a full-page ad in the New York Times, a Boston bus is swathed in a van Gogh image, and a Chicago cab receipt invites you to visit that city's Museum of Contemporary Art. READ MORE Old Meets New: A Dinosaur View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Ink
Reading “For those who love history and like thinking about why our American system (with all of its flaws) kind of works, these two books help to frame how lucky we are and why the way we do things in the United States does not work so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where she began her public-health... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
expertise as well as money, and thus the venture capital industry was born. Among those joining AR&D in 1947 was a returning U.S. Navy veteran named Bill Elfers. Just four years later, he became vice president and was soon the number two... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
bridging the gap between fashion, technology, and sustainability,” according to Ventura. Women's Association of New York Names Rising Stars for 2021 In an effort to give outstanding HBS alumnae a mid-career boost of recognition, HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Houston back to her hometown in 2007. “People in Dallas are truly captivated by this venture,” she notes. The facility, to be named the Perot Science Museum, will be located near the city’s sports arena, a few blocks from the new Dallas... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for creating and acquiring children is, Spar argues, disorganized, legally conflicted, and virtually unfettered. It includes people who sell their eggs; buy sperm from strangers; undergo fertilization procedures; pay surrogates to bear children; and finance costly... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
familiar with your systems and your culture,” notes Morris. “And we’re trying to get people who have had that training, to be able to use it to earn additional income.” Syrg also specializes in improving retention rates, surveying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
he’d reached at the bottom of the South Sandwich Trench; 8,376 meters—now he had surpassed the deepest point he’d ever taken the Limiting Factor, on an earlier descent to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench. His board was green—all View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
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Slice of Life
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
ambitious: a five-part, all-Ravel score that required a set change in the middle. The principal horn—who was responsible for a crucial solo—called that morning to say her flight had been canceled, and she wouldn’t be able to make it. And their conductor, Carlos Miguel... View Details