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- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
upset me.” Machine dream: “There were companies that displayed different rates and prices. But none of them ever considered why people would want all that information on one screen, with it placed in charts and graphs that allowed users... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
House of Bread on the Rise
operated by franchisees. Based on her Santa Cruz experience, McCann makes a point of telling her franchise owners that they need to live within a half-hour of the bakery. “In that first year, running a small business is like having a... View Details
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs is good politics just before a midterm election. But HBS... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
is filling a need in the market. That is due, in no small way, to the fact that top-performing senior executive women remain critically underrepresented in corporate governance across all industries. Currently only about 19 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
later volunteered teaching at a prison. A couple of years after leaving HBS, I became interested in the idea of the ROI of higher ed; that a college degree used to be the best investment someone could make, and was quickly becoming one of the worst. I spent a year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
field. Business really didn’t have anything like that. So as part of our work for the Leadership Initiative, Nitin and I compiled a list of 1,000 founders or CEOs who led U.S.-based companies for at least five years between 1900 and 2000.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and companies are kept... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Field Studies a Win-Win
Field studies give small teams of second-year HBS students, working under faculty supervision and guidance, an opportunity to get a handle on the kinds of real-world problems that individual companies are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
their efforts was a weekend seminar held in January that was an enjoyable combination of academic discussion, public service, and relaxation. The event centered on three new case studies on companies situated near the border between... View Details
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Senior Lecturer Kristin W. Mugford (photo courtesy of Kristin Mugford) Students at Harvard Business Schools are taking their education to the streets of Boston to help View Details
Keywords: retail
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
patterns of corporate governance and finance between the early 20th century and the 1990s. To attract investors, the statutes of companies organized before 1910 often included stronger protections for small... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
Stacey Abrams didn’t dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Her first small business was a consultancy that she launched out of necessity to supplement her salary as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
went from leading portal to overextended venture incubator in just one year. The founder and owner was removed, and Yu, 36, was left to pick up the pieces. As chairman and CEO, he is now restructuring and refocusing the company to be a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract... View Details