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- 29 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Finding professional purpose: Building an impactful career that reflects your values with Lisa Tanzer (MBA 1993)
entertained. I’ve always been someone who wants to brighten peoples’ day, and I sought to integrate that into my career. I took on roles that combined creative development and strategic leadership, working my up to CMO, and then President and CEO roles. I worked on... View Details
- Student-Profile
Ryann Noe
meaning-making. Her PhD qualifying paper is a longitudinal study of social resistance to technology in the toy industry. Together with Professor Raffaelli, she has written about how independent bookstores were able to resurge in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
related merchandising licenses for toys and other consumer products. The first Marvel-produced theatrical release (Captain America is a likely subject) is scheduled to appear in summer 2008. Marvel, based in New York, with offices in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
image of a hard-driving entrepreneur who is on call around the clock doesn’t mesh well with the nonstop demands of family life. But that didn’t stop Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) from leaving a fast-track management position at Toys “R” Us... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
growth rate. Clearly eBay was doing something right.” At the time, Whitman was a general manager of the Preschool Division of the Rhode Island–based toy company Hasbro, overseeing brands like Mr. Potato Head and Teletubbies. eBay’s... View Details
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
Ventureminded. Stefanie Botelho (MBA 2013), founder and CEO of the B2B marketplace Fitzroy Toys for independent toymakers. Divya Nettimi (MBA 2014), an investment analyst with Viking Global Investors. Gabriel Parisi-Amon (MBA 2013),... View Details
- Profile
Alex Nelson
graduation," Alex says, "and will continue to focus on retail management. Longer term, I'm interested in entrepreneurship. I'm toying with a variety of ideas, including one for a fashion business that redefines luxury in terms... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS
digital innovation compelling - especially if you think about the democratization of access that digital technology enables. It also meant I needed a serious boost in my digital literacy, so I ended up taking CS50 for MBAs during my second year. I had View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Toy State, retails for about $170. Spring 2018 The 2018 season is unveiled, with races scheduled for broadcast by six networks across more than 87 countries. View Details
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- Portrait Project
Ann Chao
developmentally delayed. I fell in love with her immediately. She was beautiful; perfect. Her gentle smile lit up my day. She loved music, and would lean back and close her eyes to the simple melodies on toy keyboards. My family began... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1971, Fung has built Li & Fung into a multinational trading and retailing company with 36 offices in 20 countries and an annual turnover of more than $1.6 billion. In Hong Kong, where Li & Fung operates View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
“Coming to HBS has widened my scope and outlook on life,” says Kim, who arrived at HBS with eight years of work experience — as a Bain consultant, an officer of a campus church, and a marketing manager of a toy company. “I have learned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 24 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
My Journey to Joining the first MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Cohort
that must be answered for drugs to make it to market. And I especially loved any chance I got to dive into the science behind these questions. A few years ago, as I started to think about what I wanted to do longer term, I toyed with the... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
and exploring over 10 African countries, I have no doubt that this is where I need to be. Also, I have one passport and it says Kenya on it. My exact plans are to be determined – I’m trying to craft a role within the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise... View Details
- 19 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Reflections From My First Month at HBS
communication. As someone who is fairly logical and data-driven, I find myself grappling with this idea of authenticity. It’s a new feeling, and I’m still learning how to embrace it. Here’s a question from our first Field course that I’m still View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
Show!’ Partner with a toy company and there could be a Boaty under every tree this Christmas and a Boaty Book explaining his or her research mission.’ Others were less enthusiastic. Darmody1 reminded us that, “it’s important to consider... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
person, on the senior leadership team. No one had stepped back and asked, How would you make this work? What would it take?” Enter Henderson and Carter and the Leviathan. Henderson says he figured out the logistics of battery-swapping by tinkering with his daughter’s... View Details