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- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Bill and Sandra Patton (photo by Tony LaBruno) While serving on the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee in 1979, William Patton Jr. (PMD 21, 1971) met Orange County superintendent of schools Robert... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
sleek black paint job and just 16 hand-stitched leather seats. Its routes run from private terminals, often at smaller metropolitan airports—such as Van Nuys in Los Angeles and Farnborough near London—to... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Greek Drama
pair became close friends while students at Amherst and were fellow backbenchers in the Greek Parliament in the 1980s, “reminiscing about their college years in between heated political debates and cross fire,” the Los View Details
Christina Melas-Kyriazi
active angel investor and an advisor to early-stage companies. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Stanford University. Christina grew up in Los Angeles, CA and now lives... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Star Turn
helping to set up HBS’s intranet service. At the urging of former Dean Kim Clark , he enrolled in the MBA Program. On his switch from academia to the private sector, Royo explained to the Los Angeles Times... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
New Face at Facebook
“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
California’s Kern County, Florez hauled irrigation pipe around rose and vegetable fields for up to twelve hours a day in triple-digit heat, a job for which he received no overtime pay. “Before I leave I want to attempt to have an argument about farmworkers and what... View Details
- April 2010
- Case
Talent Agencies
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Toby E. Stuart and Lauren Barley
The case overviews the talent agency industry in Hollywood in 2009. Focuses on the role of the talent agent, the dynamics of professional service firms, the challenges facing agencies in light of major changes in the entertainment industries, and a possible merger... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Campaign Begins
1997) Katie Vogelheim & John Hansen (MBA 1985) An interactive experience connected alumni with similar interests. Regional Events Around the World Boston San Francisco New York Chicago Mumbai More to follow Paris São Paulo Los View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Seeing the Light
Living in Los Angeles and working as a marketer for a global biotechnology firm, Jana Kirlin Brownell (MBA '83) saw her career path take an unexpected turn. More than once, her father had asked her to come... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
soon as you agreed, you couldn’t talk to anyone about it," Stolar told the BostonInno news website. In fact, after agreeing to appear before the Sharks, the Unshrinkit duo did three months of intensive prep, then flew to Los View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Motivation through hard knocks
“turbulent” upbringing in South Central Los Angeles has enhanced his ability and interest in motivating others. “I’ve seen both sides of the equation,” he says, explaining that he has experienced... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Inspiring conversations around the world
need for us to reach out to one another as nations, as humans,” says Bussel, an Israeli-born artist who divides her time between Los Angeles and Tel Aviv. “One cannot separate art from the human experience,... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS
learning both inside and outside the classroom. This blog is written by Hayden Tanabe (MBA 2025), Co-President of the Student Association, and one of the students residing in the halls. I’ve always been a Los View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even generate sales) or pitch the idea for... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Giving Kids a Better Chance
Marshall Tuck (MBA 2000) combined an interest in social issues and the entrepreneurial lessons he learned at HBS to launch a charter school organization in Los Angeles. In just a few years, the Partnership for View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
When the airlines sought government financial help in the wake of September's terrorist attacks, Delta Airlines chairman and CEO Leo Mullin (MBA '67) emerged as a powerful advocate for the industry, the Los View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Thinking Outside the Centerfold
shop” (Adweek, January 28, 2002). With annual billings of $225 million and some 160 employees working in Miami and a new Los Angeles office, CPB is now garnering plenty of attention. But CPB had shown... View Details
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Chrysler dealer delivers 47 cars in one day - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
achieved by Angeles Motors, Chrysler and Plymouth dealer of Los Angeles, California, on Christmas day, 1936. On that morning 47 new cars were placed in the hands of owners. They represented 47 distinct... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Yurt Man
company, HOMErgent, see as ideal for disaster relief and globally sustainable affordable housing. “For less than $2,000, we can provide better housing than what most people in the world already have,” Zwern told the Los View Details