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- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
game-changing ideas," SGP is both a foundation and a pro bono consulting firm focusing on nonprofit scale and systemic change, primarily in Massachusetts. "We find social entrepreneurs with promising ideas and work alongside them as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities
search consultants. The program featured a banquet and keynote address by Scott D. Cook (MBA '76), cofounder and chairman of Intuit, Inc. At the London-based Eurotrek, a program featuring the topics "Entrepreneurship in Europe," "Achieving View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
on a smaller, more sustainable scale is not just good for the soil, Keen says; it can also lead to better nutrition and economic sustainability for an indigenous population that has long suffered from obesity, diabetes, and poverty. Far... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
scuffles but has never fired his weapon, nor been fired upon. He always wears his bulletproof vest, and does things by the book. On the street, he’s firmly in command but respectful, bantering in both English and Spanish. “On a street-smarts View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
in hand in 1950, McDermott returned to West Point to teach economics. In an environment that valued conformity, he introduced assignments in his courses that appealed to each cadet's strengths and interests. In 1954 he began to apply this approach on a larger View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
with the management team at the time, to scale back all of those businesses, focus on the diamond in the rough that we had within our midst, the Dunkin’ Donuts business, polish that up, standardize the format, standardize the menu, the... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
number of people who used the pandemic as a time to scale back. In doing so, the latter category has given rise to entire movements of more flexible drinking styles, from the sober-curious or “flexi-drinkers,” who take a part-time view of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
whatever you decide.” —Professor Joseph L. Badaracco (MBA 1978, DBA 1981), Managing in the Gray Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli photo by Allison Shelley (Getty) Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli photo by Allison Shelley (Getty) “The challenges to scaling are... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of '97 Placement Statistics Similar for September and January Cohorts
Preliminary placement figures (as of August 1997)* Total September Cohort January Cohort Average satisfaction with job offer (on a scale of 1-low to 7-high) 6.1 6.1 6.1 Average number of companies contacted 20 19 21 Average number of... View Details
- 19 May 2023
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Quiet Acceleration
Photo credit: Tesla Photo credit: Tesla Four years into his tenure as Tesla’s CFO, Zachary Kirkhorn (MBA 2013) continues to draw notice for his quiet, effective ability to implement CEO Elon Musk’s vision to scale Tesla into the world’s... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
he believes has potential to scale nationally. Since selling Panera in 2017, he’s also invested in three other health-conscious cafes based around Boston. Life Alive offers vegetable-filled grain bowls, broth and smoothie bowls, CBD... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
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Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu Lakes region of Nepal for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tierney. But nothing of the scope and scale of what he envisioned. Along the way, Tierney enlisted Bradach, a former Bain consultant then teaching at HBS, as an adviser. “I’ve always lived on the boundary between the social sector and the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
you have a massive production of lithium-ion batteries––that’s the technology of choice today––which brings scale costs way down. So, as EVs grow, that’s going to drive down lithium-ion prices. “You’re going to have a huge demand for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Companies. “Blitzscaling” is a set of techniques to scale up in a massive and urgent manner. Why is speed so critical? The key insight for blitzscaling is that there is a time when the best way to win is to prioritize speed over... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
potential to create a lasting impact on women, worldwide. As the lead developer at MOGUL, I coded the first version myself, using Ruby on Rails. It has been an incredible journey, to achieve significant user traction upon launch and continue to View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
series of summit-style events that bring like-minded technology and design innovators together with experts in the field of aging. The next step will be scaling the enterprise through local chapters in cities around the world and raising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
The Answers: It depends on the company’s goals. We’ve seen many examples of DTCs that had to scale and go to retail faster than they were ready, due to investor pressure. If Saigal is happy with the current View Details