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30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

incredible boss and thrived in the HBO culture. While at HBO my team worked on an analysis to understand the Latino demographic in the US and more specifically understand the business opportunity of reaching this audience. This analysis... View Details

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

PublicationsHarder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Authors:Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Being a great leader today is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

December 2012 (Revised April 2025)
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AmTran Technology Ltd.

By: Willy Shih, Jyun-Cheng Wang and Karen E. Robinson

As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha Wu describes as a "WE" model in which western companies perform sales,... View Details

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01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

promise held out by its foray into private equity, Grubman notes, "We're leveraging on Providence Equity's investment scale to invest in businesses we understand and where we can add value. For example, we have looked at investments in... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016);... View Details

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

300 applicants and became the largest student-led business plan competition for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But as the competition progressed, Foster and Simpson began to identify some biases and frictions in the evaluation and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Venture Capital

eager to use their business acumen to identify growing companies and help them prosper. Each year, Jonathan and Katja see several hundred students join the Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, engage in educational programming, and... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

06 Jul 2020
Blog Post

A Letter from the Women in Investing Club

has been fostered in this group, the bonds made are able to transcend physical proximity. While racism is nothing new in this country, much less the world of investing, as women of color, we recognize the importance of using our platform... View Details

16 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future

hired in your current position? I’m currently the General Manager of Newlab’s flagship location in Brooklyn, New York. Newlab is a venture platform that helps early-stage critical tech startups grow by providing access to community,... View Details

Profile

Prita Kumar

Prita Kumar, the founder and CEO of Booya Fitness, built a pretty solid foundation for her eventual startup venture long before arriving at Harvard Business School. Growing up in Houston, Kumar and her sister were both into sports and... View Details

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a full catalog of original content... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Sep 2004
News

Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)

and, of course, the doors opened by an MBA from a prestigious northeastern business school, it has been a great ride. When I compare myself to my mother, we both fulfilled very different demographic norms. She had four children in the... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

restructuring of businesses in emerging markets; and Professor Dwight B. Crane's examination of the Asian financial crisis. The sweeping exchange of ideas prompted Professor David B. Yoffie, conference cochair, to conclude: "There is a... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

to the fact that anyone can access it from any computer as long as they have a browser, she said. Her company, Desktop.com, is building an integrated Internet desktop services platform and product in much the same spirit, to allow people... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

06 Aug 2020
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WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

on my own journey this year with the Black Investment Club and reminded me why I was so determined to get this initiative off the ground before leaving HBS. BIRTH OF AN IDEA In the fall of 2019, during my second year of business school, I... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

Individual Donors Enrich Fellows’ Experience As a beneficiary of the HBS Leadership Fellows program, I was excited to see the June cover story about the program and the profiles of several colleagues associated with it. Â As the article suggests, the program provides a... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

08 Nov 2024
News

Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

International Trade at the U.S. Small Business Administration; Steven Wolfe Pereira, CEO of Alpha & Company and former executive at Televisa Univision; and Liz Montaño (MBA 2009), Chief Operating Officer at NJ/NY Gotham FC, a National... View Details