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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
spirit to build a successful business, whether it be from the ground up or by representing a company’s product, is at the heart of direct selling; and it is people who have made—and continue to make—direct selling the successful View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
is not ideas or even talent, it is attention. This groundbreaking book argues that unless companies learn to capture, manage, and keep it — both internally and out in the marketplace — they will fall hopelessly behind. Drawing from an... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
near-failure. Other keynotes included David P. Perry's "The Ups and Downs of the Modern Entrepreneur." Perry (MBA '97) is the founder of the B2B marketplace Chemdex (which recently closed its doors) and CEO of its parent company, Ventro... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
process of taking an innovation from academia to the marketplace when he joined the new venture in 2008, even if the cement industry itself was a departure for him. That turn, taken in the later phase of his career, has resulted in an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
Graduating magna cum laude in 1996, Akinola was accepted at HBS but deferred admission while she returned to Africa, this time to the city of Accra, Ghana. “In Benin, we had talked about the possibility of reaching street kids in their own environment by actually going... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
to be unattractive. Women—attractive or not—were least likely to successfully persuade investors. The paper grudgingly acknowledges that this type of bias on the part of investors may “not necessarily represent irrational marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
week, a handful of new companies open themselves up to the public through Republic’s platform, where it often takes just $25 and a credit card to buy in. (In Roomi’s case, the minimum investment on Republic was $50.) The result is a lively new View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
primarily for public schools serving low-income families. It has created an online marketplace connecting teachers with “citizen philanthropists,” who buy supplies or services the schools can’t afford. At www.DonorsChoose.org, teachers... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
created a market out of thin air. “We have customers who have come to us and said, ‘I never previously considered a diamond because of the impact,’” says Aether’s cofounder and chief marketing officer Robert Hagemann (MBA 2011). “That is a consumer who was not in the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
estimated that some 30 percent of women would leave the professional world to become caregivers, but that 70 percent would have stayed if they had access to a flexible schedule. It was an “aha” moment for Auerbach. She initially launched Werk as a View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
be the ones left standing once the dust clears. Charan traces the causes of this crisis, identifies the essential priorities managers need to focus on now, and offers clear guidelines for top executives and managers. Create Marketplace... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
that 3 out of the top 10 global fintech deals in 2017 involved Chinese companies, while the 5 largest investor-backed fintech IPOs that year were driven by Chinese firms. China, meanwhile, would appear to be a giant regulatory sandbox: a vast and largely unprotected... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
home in Weston, MA “I knew that law was great training for logic, but I fell in love with business. I was passionate about starting my own company.” Inspired by her own frustration finding care for her sons and parents, Marcelo built the world’s largest online View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Jeff Balash (MBA '73/74) was one of the eighty graduates who returned to HBS for the program. photo by Justin Knight Rapid changes in technology and the shifting realities of the global marketplace make lifelong learning a necessity for... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
platform on his own website. “We discussed how you think about building a business in a world where you depend on your competitors to go to market. That’s something that doesn’t exist in many other business types, but it’s pretty common in the new digital View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
was its reasoning? It argued that the marketplace has changed because new technologies — such as cable, the Internet, and satellite TV — facilitate new and diverse sources of information and content. The competition they provide, the FCC... View Details