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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. With revenues of around $12 billion, it comprises some of the most famous firms in advertising, marketing, and public relations. He is now positioning WPP to turn the challenges of major... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
capitalized, loss-making technology company is what it took for me to learn that! —Steve Papa (MBA 1999) founder of Endeca; founder and current CEO at Parallel Wireless; longtime NVC judge and mentor Tenacity Amid Uncertainty I applied to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
of male HBS grads to the executive office was not easy, but for women still unwelcomed above the glass ceiling in the ’70s, getting there was especially difficult. “She was one smart, sharp cookie,” says a classmate of Ellen Marram (MBA 1970), a marketing whiz who... View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
Hungry for Change
Management consulting doesn’t lend itself to a balanced diet. Always on the go for her projects at Kurt Salmon, Kate Flynn (MBA 2012) would grab whatever packaged food appeared healthiest to her. For a long time, she sought low-calorie and low-carbohydrate options but... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
as a number of former students continue to stay involved as alumni. Jamyn Edis (MBA ’05) first began working with inmates on their business plans while at HBS and continues to do so from his home in New York City, where he is a media and View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
"Are you Tim Perzyk? And was a gentleman named Richard Perzyk, who died about 70 years ago at the end of World War II, your grandfather?" At which point, I felt that Piero had shared enough information to clearly have some insight into my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni, Faculty, and Other Experts Offer Career Advice
Three HBS alumni will present online seminars in this fall’s Career Management Webinar Series, a resource offered by Alumni Career & Professional Development. Mark Chussil (MBA 1979) will discuss creating your ideal life; Jill Miller Perrin (MBA 1985) will analyze how... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
company to engage on this issue.” Toffel, as course head for the Technology and Operations Management course, has himself taken the lead on introducing some of these cases. One example is Indigo Agriculture, in which CEO David Perry (MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
Technology had spent most of the night collecting the necessary materials and printing some 1,500 posters commemorating the event, which had become a rallying cry for the country’s anti-Communist activists. Maj and his friends, part of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
choosing this industry as opposed to another. The film business is a little tricky for MBAs to navigate. It doesn’t have the same clear path that other, more traditional fields do. Leaving that aside, the broader field of media and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
deep learning. “We are excited about emerging markets, where we see high adoption rates of technologies designed for the point-of-care,” she says. “In the United States, we can use deep learning to generate rich View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
interesting challenge, because you have a limited amount of time to build the brand. Then it disappears. We had to develop a marketing plan that was all-encompassing, but that still got the right information to the people who needed it."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
forum, titled “New Barriers and New Opportunities: Leading in an Uncertain World,” is shaping up to be a truly remarkable event. Professor Nancy Koehn, the forum’s faculty chair, has done an outstanding job of organizing a lineup of HBS faculty and View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
beyond Boston. The Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development used Internet technology and digitalized video to make teaching materials, guest speakers, and class lectures available via the Web to faculty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
executing the company’s core strategy: using technology to differentiate GE’s products in the marketplace. At an estimated $30 billion globally for high-tech security products, it’s a market with plenty of room for growth. Parker is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
major pension providers where his savings were stowed. It was hard to pry even basic information from them, he says. Instead they channeled his calls through financial advisors, who pitched costly services. The more he prodded for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Understanding Advanced Topics in Accounting by Lawrence Weiss (DBA 1989) (Business Expert Press) Accounting information provides individuals with a starting point to understand and evaluate the key drivers of a firm, its financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Linking Donors, Students
Lee Fellowship recipient Shamika Lee (MBA ’08) spoke at the MBA Fellowship Dinner in mid-April, an annual event where fellowship students and donors get to know each other. “On behalf of all the students here tonight, let me say that we do not take your investment... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
annually. “A single ton of circuit boards contains the same amount of metal — copper, gold, and other elements — as ninety tons of commercial-grade ore,” explained Bradoo. “Using existing scaled-up mining industry technologies, our goal... View Details