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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others. “As clients embrace the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
on to become a household name. Consider David Cowan’s (MBA 1992) initial response to eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass.” Chad Waite (MBA 1983) had this to say about a certain Seattle... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
entrepreneurs primed Enan for a career in venture capital. So did her experience at the EAEF, which invested in early ventures that are now household names, like Fawry, cofounded by Magda Habib. "I'd always heard about Magda and how she... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
point in public consciousness as private equity has bought more companies and larger companies, some of which are household names. Last year, private-equity firms raised a record amount of funds. Do you expect another record this year? I... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
executives, or households and families, people now know, that this is proven science. And that this is no longer an issue we can ignore. And there's only one very, very small pocket left of climate deniers and it's such a small group,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
personalities in approachability, authenticity, and other criteria that were considered aspects of their overall influence. The top 5—and 6 of the top 10—were YouTube stars, outranking household names such as Jennifer Lawrence, Katy... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
under an alias in the polygamous household of a Latter-day Saint leader with five wives and 20 children. Midway through Henrietta’s secret sojourn in the City of the Saints, she was caught up in the Utah War of 1857–1858, President... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
Personally, how do you feel you changed when you made that transition? Sulyman: I think it really opened my mind. I was very sheltered growing up in Lagos, Nigeria. Very loving parents, grew up in the household of five people, two... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
what their career spans are going to look like as well. So if it becomes a household topic the way that caregiving became a household topic during COVID for the first time, it was always kind of hidden. But... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
technocrats than the country had ever seen and handed them their goals and benchmarks. When property-tax bills landed in mailboxes several weeks later, they reflected across-the-board cuts. The deepest, 30 percent, went to households with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Daniel Bricklin [MBA '79] in an HBS classroom), to the extraterrestrial commerce of Orbital Sciences, to the development commitment of African Communications Group, HBS entrepreneurs, be they low-profile or household names, have... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
offices and factories in the fifty countries where we operate," says the 68-year-old executive, whose company produces well-known household products such as Future floor cleaner, Pledge furniture polish, Glade air freshener, and Raid... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
the household was the clack of the typewriter coming from Levitt’s upstairs office. From the moment he emigrated from Vollmerz, Germany, at age 10, Levitt seems to have understood and relished the power of the right words, in the right... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we have in the West, Chinese View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
1987 the network launched MTV Europe and began to set up other international satellites. Currently, the music channel reaches more than 294 million households on every continent except Antarctica - including unexpected places such as... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
thank our health care heroes and their loved ones,” said the Blacks when announcing their support. The program will provide at least 300,000 and up to 500,000 packages of shelf-stable food, household cleaning, and personal care products,... View Details