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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
captured by this data. For Heese, whose work focuses on the governance mechanisms that are most effective in reducing misconduct, this study raises larger questions: Once a community loses its paper, is there another way to keep a check on its commercial neighbors? In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
aspiring entrepreneur with a dreams to start a business and build an empire, start a nonprofit to change the world, or simply to be upwardly mobile and change one’s own life. View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
climate change will require the massive mobilization of huge pools of capital from across the globe—up and down value chains and across risk spectrums. Business leaders have vast experience in precisely this area. One of the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Identifying why the path to the top for women and racial minorities remains elusive
like me.” Building on research showing that underrepresented minorities are more likely to be hired and promoted into jobs in which there are already higher proportions of similar others, McGinn finds that having same-gender or same-race superiors enhances the career... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Alexandre Menard (MBA 2005), a senior partner at McKinsey Paris. Menard, who led the conversion to 4G and today heads the McKinsey Center for Advanced Connectivity, says that 4G was more of a step change by comparison. The advent of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 15 Apr 2022
- News
Funding His Purpose
investments to both nonprofit and for-profit social impact companies. It also offers philanthropic fund management, and it partnered with a for-profit consulting firm that focuses on responsible investing to provide additional services to clients. By 2019, SITAWI had... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
The Three HBS Alumni “Defining the 2016 Campaign”
article: Stephanie Hannon (MBA 2004), CTO for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and former product director at Google; Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO of Facebook, who is “leveraging her influence with Lean In followers to mobilize female... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
management, change management, and ethics. An interview with Professor Boris Groysberg. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6827.html. Horrible Boss Workarounds Bad bosses are generally more inept than evil and often aren’t purposefully bad, says Professor Rosabeth Moss... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
Ezuza, Inc., a Mexico City-based mobile payments company she launched in 2007 that focuses primarily on the unbanked and under-banked in emerging markets. Zuza means "gain" in Zulu; the e stands for "electronic." "Ezuza is interested in... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry
Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999) wants to change the landscape for biomedical financing. The cofounder of VentureHealth, an online funding platform based in Silicon Valley, Farquharson leverages deals with investors who want access to biomedical startups. "If we can View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the lives of underprivileged children in rural India
groups, has interests in telecom, agribusiness, retail, and financial services. The group’s flagship company, Bharti Airtel, ranks as the world’s fourth-largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers. In 2006, the Bharti Foundation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
RoboCar, the Sequel
expert on autonomous vehicles and mobile robotics, Alden has a new company, Alden DAVe Systems (with “DAVe” an acronym for Dual-mode Autonomous Vehicle), designed around the use of small vehicles in places like airports, university... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
mobile home in rural Washington State while her enterprising father, a truck driver, was building his own company, is running as a pro-business Democrat and advocate for the middle class. “I come from those roots,” she told the Santa Rosa... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
wireless technology. Cairncross argues that the story today is not only the diminishing importance of distance but also the mobility and ubiquity of technology. To order HBS Press books, call 800-545-7685 or visit www.hbsp.harvard.edu.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (MBA 2006) believes stories “are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t. But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people and support the push for change through policy.” As the author... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
integrative, stage of a relationship, Austin notes, "resources from both organizations have been mobilized and meshed to create a new set of services, activities, and resources unique to that collaboration." His example is the 1995 pilot... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Girls for Humanity (FGFH), the mission of which was to provide humanitarian services and funding to communities in need across the world. Hanazawa mobilized the global fashion industry by soliciting excess merchandise from luxury brands... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
responsive on mobile and will soon launch a mobile app on iPhone. Noting the passionate following of our original video series, “How She Did It,” as well as the user engagement on our curated videos, we will... View Details