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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA '93) is the founder, president, and CEO of Rakuten, Japan's leading online shopping destination. He believes that because the Internet allows merchants to circumvent the many intermediaries who jack up prices in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Emilka Valentova
The driver admitted: "I was afraid I was picking up a patient!" Hiding the truth behind my tailored suit aggravated my despair. During the first year at HBS, I found the courage to share my story... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Closing the opportunity divide for low-income young adults
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) founded Year Up to offer technical and professional skills training to arm economically disadvantaged young people with the professional skills they need to contribute to... View Details
Amadeo Peter Giannini
Giannini grew Bank of America into the world’s largest bank. Three years after surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Giannini’s banking operations expanded by opening its first branch in San Jose. He continued to open banks... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
software update to the Falcon security platform managed by CrowdStrike, the giant cybersecurity company. “What happened in CrowdStrike is an illustration of the risk of picking up an upgrade immediately.” Greenstein’s work focuses on... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
Capital Partners. "A lot of noise has been eliminated. The people I deal with are true believers." His company is "not looking for quick flips. We're willing to roll up our sleeves." The growing field of photonics will... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
executives would find out that I was meditating,” Burton admits. Today, he wants everyone to know about the workplace benefits of meditation and other stress-management techniques. Six years ago, Burton founded Whil, a digital training... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter of antibiotic resistance, a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
We Did It!
MBA Class of 2009 graduates whoop it up at last June’s Harvard Commencement ceremonies at the University’s Tercentenary Theatre. Some students flash MBA Oath cards, indicating their backing for an initiative, inspired by HBS students,... View Details
- Profile
Matthew Boys
“I had a funny, checkered route to HBS,” Matt Boys says, of his path toward an MBA; and, in some respects, it’s true. He edited the music section of the school paper at the London School of Economics and helped run a student nightclub, booking bands from the U.S. In... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
high-value innovation that was conceptually and strategically right for us." An initiative launched by Lafley calls upon P&G to find half of its new products outside its walls, up from 20 percent four years... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government
the solution to our political problems is also the solution to our economic problems. And I can sum it up in one word: integrity.” He offered graduates five ways that they could lead solutions to the current turmoil, including being... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave View Details
- Portrait Project
Arnaud Karsenti
desktop is up and running. Welcome to the life of a global entrepreneur. What are you going to do today? The best way to predict the future is to create it. When I look towards my future, I see a life of constant creation: the creation of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
do, and they just want to move up in their careers. They want to use the time to think, to explore, to imagine what lives they might lead. The summer experience ends up being very important. And the second... View Details
- 17 Feb 2016
- News
The Power of Art
in San Francisco. ArtLifting’s chief operating officer Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015) told the Times that the company is gearing up for dramatic growth: “We have the funding right now, but it isn’t going to be here forever This is a critical... View Details
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Matt Thurmond
But he made his mark as an eBay Power Seller. "I sold well over 1,500 items," says Matt. "And I learned a lot about business: high margin versus low margin; not holding too much inventory; and the risk of shrinkage — I woke View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
The Wisdom of Crowds
The judgments of many people regarding the merits of a restaurant, hotel, or bar trump a single reviewer’s opinion. That’s the philosophy behind the Zagat Survey leisure guides, and Ted Zagat (MBA 2004) has literally grown up with that... View Details