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- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
club members and prospective HBS students. We’re always working to connect the HBS Latino community, empower our alumni through learning and development opportunities, offer a platform for them to grow from graduation to retirement, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Research in Markets & Organizations) brings undergraduates to HBS for 10 weeks to conduct research with faculty who, with current doctoral students, offer mentoring. In addition, we work closely with the PhD Project, an organization that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
One problem was that Rakuten offered little initial training or support to workers, who were expected to pay for their own English classes and learn the language during off-hours. Neeley, who drafted some... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
scrutiny?’ and I said, ‘Yes,’ ” says Carroll. Because of Carroll’s commitment to safety, fatalities in Anglo American’s mines have decreased by nearly 60 percent. At the same time, she has inspired a more collaborative approach throughout the mining community and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
traded off careers with my husband, who is a neurosurgeon. After I was at P&G for two years, he got a post in San Francisco, so I took a job at Bain. When Disney offered me a job, the kids and I moved to LA, and he commuted. Then he got... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
65-year-old person in Southern California and everybody in between. We think there’s a real appetite for this. With our initial free product, we got to over 100,000 subscribers in under 12 months. We’ve since shifted to a subscription... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity by Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Palgrave Macmillan Small businesses are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for... 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
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
included everything from X-rays to endoscopy, and a pharmacy where a person could fill a prescription before heading home—with a printed copy of their electronic medical record in hand. Back in the early internet days of 2000, these View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
annual list of the “10 Surprises” that investors should be thinking about in the year ahead. Taylor Becker (MBA 2025) met Wien as a first-year analyst at Blackstone, the only one of the 100 or so in his cohort to take Wien up on his offer... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
climate change, I couldn’t justify the carbon footprint of getting on an airplane every week,” Fenwick-Smith recalls. Aravaipa was also an open-ended fund, in part because Fenwick-Smith was uncertain about the interest in initial... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
that department stores organized cosmetics by brand, making comparisons difficult, she was determined to offer consumers a better option. “I wanted to build an empire in the beauty industry,” says Beck, who oversees Bluemercury’s 195... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Entrepreneur Of The Year, Financial Services 2013 James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences opens at Eckerd College Tom James's entrepreneurial bent was apparent early on. An avid coin collector, at the age of 15 he began to buy and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
up business schools. 1957 With his book A Concept of Agribusiness, Ray Goldberg (with John Davis) coins a term and defines an industry. 1958 Ken Andrews begins writing cases on the Swiss watch industry that lay the groundwork for the... View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
suburb with thousands of high-quality, low-cost items under one roof. A new term -- hypermarché -- was coined to describe this phenomenon. French consumers were lured away from their traditional patronage of small, locally owned stores to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
Whoever coined the adage, "If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it," must have had David Hughes in mind. Cheerful and rock steady, Hughes demonstrates an uncanny ability to continually absorb new projects and activities. As... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
the coin of the realm in business strategy, too, says Benjamin Gomes-Casseres (DBA 1985). In his new book, Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations, the author defines the business remix as “the mixing of resources, assets,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
and fellow faculty member John J. Sviokla coined a term to describe the nonphysical arena in which business transactions were increasingly taking place - the marketspace. The Managing in the Marketspace course the pair developed and... View Details