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- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
Fayelle Ouane (MBA 2009) founded Suguba to create transformative change on the African continent. In this interview, she discusses the path to achieving that deep impact. “So I'm originally from Mali, but I grew up in Switzerland. And I was View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
with a free market, and replacing it with a government-owned or government-controlled airline industry. Although Emirates has done an extremely good job when it comes to customer service, I would argue that the primary reason for its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
workers smashed the delegation's cars and surrounded the small group. “It was an extremely tense situation. I thought maybe this was going to be the end,” says Djelic. “I told them violence was no answer, and all we could do was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
Hood needed to correct missteps made on Ballmer’s watch. First up: the $9.5 billion Nokia deal. Less than a year after closing, it was foundering and had missed Hood’s initial forecast for sales and savings. “Once the forecast failed to pan out, Amy was View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
and wastewater systems of varying size, the majority of which are extremely small. Those systems—some investor owned, others government operated—have a variety of governance structures and infrastructures that are decades old. This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
three things. First, we were starting an advisory business in mergers and acquisitions. Second, we were going to start a principal investing activity, what you’d now call private equity. And third, we were going to try to attract View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
people-watching, and the general ambience, it was extremely attractive to customers. Also, a key aspect of our strategy is to be preemptive; we get there ahead of the competition, and if we're a little late, we accelerate our development.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
their industry and not be seduced in the short term by the extreme competitiveness of the investment banking and securities marketplace. I've seen firsthand how that competitiveness can undermine the best intentions of high-ranking... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
because these companies clearly are incapable of competing with Japanese-owned companies that are simply producing better cars at lower cost. Won’t we continue to have a U.S. auto industry? It’s just that the manufacturers will produce Toyotas and Hondas? Welcome to... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique 50-minute experience during which you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital and doing things that the world as a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
pounds of sweet corn that would have been left in the fields to be tilled under. There is a huge opportunity for innovation and creativity in this work, which is part of what makes it extremely fun." In 2013, Zeaske estimates that Second... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
a whole. “When a company invests 1 in digital, it brings 10 to 12 in value, so in terms of taxes, it’s extremely profitable for the government to have companies transform themselves,” notes Genta. His ministry is drawing new enterprises... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
who drove almost three hours to attend the talk. “The topic is extremely timely. Everybody seems to know these problems in healthcare and finance, the environment and government that need to be fixed. The question is ‘What do we do?’... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
remembers, was "the hardest two years of my life." "However my training as an actress really worked in my favor. Class participation counted for 50 percent of our grades and I was never afraid to raise my hand. Having an authoritative voice was View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
abilities, it makes sense to find a way to integrate them into the workforce, Fieldhouse explains. “Information from our research indicated the employment churn rate for people on the spectrum is extremely high—around 50 percent within... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
your estimation, what political actions can actually change people's minds? Hessan: So here's what I think. I think that the extremes get the attention. So I—first of all, this is really hard to say. But I am convinced that our country is... View Details