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- 01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged
2013), the founder and CEO of the Chinese electric startup WM Motor, puts the personal passenger vehicle market at around 28 million. Chinese consumers bought nearly half of all electric plug-ins sold... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
least for very long. For the last 14 months she has been running circles around Hollywood, since signing on as employee number one of a startup called Quibi. After devoting the previous two decades to Silicon Valley’s Fortune 500... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
essential). SABIS uses computerized learning assessment systems and online learning to reinforce, not disrupt, the traditional SABIS classroom process. Says Bistany, "It's an approach, honed by decades of practice, that holds powerful promise for learning in the 21st... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
law for “38 seconds” before starting two other tech companies. Michelle Zatlyn (MBA ’09): Saskatchewan native with experience in product marketing and product management. The pair hatched the idea for what would become CloudFlare during... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Women nominate their male friends for the service; men can’t peruse the women’s profiles without that endorsement. In a conference room at startup accelerator MassChallenge in Boston, Ken Deckinger is running a focus group entirely... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
wonderful businessmen who were very good role models. I loved the idea of marketing and serving customers, and I planned to go to business school right after college. My father talked me into going to law school first, but after I... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
people who make their living studying things like monetary policy and market design? So she called her old friend and colleague, Stephanie Hurder (PHDBE 2013), who was ready for a change after spending three years at Boston Consulting... View Details
- 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 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
African continent and import taxes are exorbitant, prices can run sky-high—to the tune of US$80,000 for a 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, for instance. To address these problems, Nairobi-based startup Mobius Motors has reimagined an affordable... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
huge global companies that are very well run and have been very financially successful. In the US beer business we have a little bit less than 2 percent market share. So, we have to keep the heart and passion of a small business.... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
1965) and Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990). “It was a tremendous opportunity,” she says. “The Krafts’ customer-first focus, and commitment to analytics-based decision making, fit perfectly with my interests and skills.” As head of customer View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
opportunity to work in derivative markets like secondhand clothing. “I wrote my final paper about thredUP,” Reinhart continued. “When I went back and read it recently, it was kind of hilarious. Once you spend a year and a half working in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
School - both in and out of the classroom - to fit his professional goals. For instance, as one of ten HBS students chosen for the Kauffman Entrepreneur Internship Program, he spent last summer in India at Aditi Technologies, a software View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
cyber-insurance market: As claims pour in for losses due to everything from business disruptions to extortion, major carriers are raising premiums and reducing coverage. Not everyone is retrenching, however. In 2021, cyber-insurance View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
to interact with financial markets, even indirectly.” It’s still too early to evaluate KBRA’s results, although in 2011 the firm came in third place in the first market where it chose to compete (commercial-backed securities with a single... View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
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Hitting the High Notes
human capital management expert and NY Times best-selling author of Building a Magnetic Culture, as the featured speaker at its monthly North Shore Interest Group (NSIG) Breakfast Club gathering on January 9. “Whether you’re a startup or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
pay for that speed, Kelleher says. The Question: Gold Rush Vinyl could reduce that time even further—to two weeks—if it solves supply chain bottlenecks in sourcing the record jackets and the plastic resin used in production. As a new View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
can make or break it all. “Plus, in a world where people want to work from home and other companies offer that option, it’s difficult for us to ignore the market and what people want,” Lerner says. On the other hand, the founders have a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Putting the Game Within Reach
Fan Experience “New mixed reality integrations, sports betting, and gamified experiences are changing the way that fans are consuming sports. We are already seeing this with immersive media, particularly in the interactivity that is finding its way from the burgeoning... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
fellowship for students from emerging markets interested in careers in infrastructure- or property-related sectors. His second act also includes serving as a senior advisor to Global Infrastructure Partners, a private equity investor in... View Details