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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
perspective. Many companies abroad have been very smart about importing the U.S. dot-com model — without all the hype — and are really looking at what works and what doesn’t. China knows it has a huge price advantage in terms of View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
economic drivers" of business use of the Internet, explaining, "The change in the production process of information is altering the way it's distributed. Information is moving from paper into bits. That is a fundamental change in the...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
stadium in Los Angeles, a lucrative media market long devoid of an NFL team. Meanwhile, games in England have drawn huge crowds, and three regular season contests are scheduled for London next year. Backed by coordinated media and...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
deep was the Rainbow Fish, scheduled for completion by a Hong Kong–based startup sometime in the future but perennially delayed, it appeared. Vescovo realized he would have to build his own. In May 2015, Vescovo approached Patrick Lahey,...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is different, he says: A View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies (including Sun & Son, Inc., a national Lotus Notesbased computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Your Life. NOVEMBER 4 Rod Harl (MBA 2000), president and CEO of Alene Candles, led the pivot of his company from candlemaking to the production of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in response to the pandemic. Closing just before a...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that the student body’s social View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
1991 and served in various managerial capacities before being named president in 2000 and CEO in 2005. Despite the chain’s strong showing in a down economy (with three new stores scheduled to open in March 2010), Schiffer expects he and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
takes to schedule appointments, receive test results, and schedule procedures—that not only lowered cost but improved results for patients. "This is a great example of what Michael often calls the 'unique...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
almost every facet of business," stated HBS professor Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., in a 1991 article. "You can't really understand some of them unless you understand the marketing issues, financial issues, and production issues in the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Diego–based chain of more than ninety buffet-style restaurants serving fresh salads, soups, pastas, and breads, CEO Michael Mack has implemented a flexible system that allows hourly employees to change their schedule with as little as one...
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
and has depth to it is deeply important to most folks I know who are making their own music and spreading their own lyrics. And then even on the production side, whether you’re here in the studio by yourself or you’re even in a...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
related merchandising licenses for toys and other consumer products. The first Marvel-produced theatrical release (Captain America is a likely subject) is scheduled to appear in summer 2008. Marvel, based in New York, with offices in...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
building on Western Avenue. The first floor of that building houses the Harvard Innovation Lab, scheduled to open this fall. The i-lab will bring together students and faculty from across the University to learn about entrepreneurship and...
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- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group...
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Jennifer Myers
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would implement a “trial size” promotion...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
chancellor for business affairs, UNC Charlotte “My boss is excellent on many dimensions, but specifically when it comes to making a part-time/flexible schedule work, he gets it. Two things set him apart from most of the people I’ve worked...
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