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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
(MBA ’85), aka Leslie Gold, traces her entrepreneurial ventures in manufacturing, talk radio, and, most recently, talk-back TV. Finally, we review HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Jeffrey Bussgang’s (MBA ’95) book, Mastering the VC Game, which describes the inner workings... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
person’s social capital,” Chertavian told the New York Times. Palandjian’s Social Finance hopes to add more training partners this year; an independent research firm, MDRC, will evaluate the performance of the initiative. Over time, Google hopes to View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
shortages and fuel prices on the rise, travel became a more costly and time-consuming undertaking. Aero was spared the worst of those challenges. Private terminals avoided mass layoffs during the pandemic—and the staffing crunch that... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
Secretary Samuel Bodman added his voice to those who say that critical decisions must be made without delay. “We are overly dependent on fossil fuels and will only become more so unless we make some critical investments now to truly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success by Thomas J. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press) DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, lays out the roots of high achievers’ anxiety (fear of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
Autism Science Foundation, which she founded in 2009, was a result of Tepper Singer's passion to fuel scientific research. To that end, ASF, which is based in New York City, funds pre- and post-doctorate fellowships for young scientists... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
the availability and cost of drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS in Africa. Fueled by doughnuts and an unsinkable team spirit, the HBS group worked for 24 hours straight to formulate the winning action plan. “We decided not only to design a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
advertising company from Independent News & Media, an Ireland-based media company that decided to focus on the United Kingdom, and Shell's downstream fuel business (e.g., gas stations, commercial fuels, aviation, marine) as Shell moves... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
Management. Though the firm is worlds away from where he started, Curiel sees his success as fuel for the RFDF and its mission to help change the future for many in his community. He commits 10 percent of his time and 10 percent of his... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
on nonfinancial metrics such as lower fuel consumption in new jet engines, and a reduced carbon footprint and lower water consumption in the firm’s factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes UTC’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Gotta Dance
lyrics, soaring harmonies, and finely tuned choreography. More importantly, it had an average view time of over two minutes, far beyond the usual five-second skip time allowed on YouTube. More recently, a project for e.l.f. Cosmetics on the video-sharing app TikTok saw... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Profiles from the Class of 2002
Pictured from left to right: Ken Baumgartner, Ipsita Dasgupta, Martin Gonzalez, Lori Schock, Tony Sanchez, and Demola Gbadegesin (photography by Robert Schoen) Members of the Class of 2002 graduate this June into a world transformed by recent events. The giddy economic... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From observers to active participants in the global economy
By investing in African countries, moving them beyond subsistence, Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) fuels some of the world’s potentially fastest-growing markets. As deputy vice president for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), he... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Editor's Letter
Illustration by Antonio Giovanni Pinna Illustration by Antonio Giovanni Pinna Change is hard. I am reminded of this every time I get a new laptop and there are new, generational expectations that require me to hunt down videos of overly caffeinated youths walking me... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
the gallon or so of gasoline that typically remains in a car's fuel system even when the gas gauge reads empty, SpareTank becomes flammable, and presto, you're on your way. "It's one of the great problem-solving products of all time,"... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Finance and the Economic Recovery
alumni giving to the HBS Fund fuels the School’s efforts to educate leaders who are equipped to navigate the challenges facing business and society today, such as those posed by the pandemic, as well as those that will arise in the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is fueled by a mission to never have to “plug in” again. The CEO of WiTricity, a startup revolutionizing science with its magnetic resonance technology, hopes to soon relegate electrical wires and batteries to the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Playbook to Fuel Business Growth By Satyam Kantamneni (GMP 14, 2013) Wiley In his book, UXReactor co-founder Satyam Kantamneni distills 25 years of industry experience into a pragmatic approach to help organizations advance in the highly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
oil from these ecologically sensitive areas would fuel North America’s energy needs for just two weeks. That stark fact took on a human face when Sander met Santiago, chief of the Achuar, a rain-forest tribe. “Alison, you need to go back... View Details