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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the chairman and CEO of Simmons &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
We Have Liftoff
HBS entrepreneurs who want to remain plugged into the Harvard network after graduation have a new home on campus. The Launch Lab—located directly across from the i-lab on Western Avenue—is now open to startups with recent alumni from any... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A revolution in healing
Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000) is president and CEO of Moderna Therapeutics, which is producing a new drug application that could revolutionize the biotech world. It hinges on messenger RNA, or mRNA, the molecules responsible for transporting... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Les Vadasz (107th AMP)
first time, our technology started to reach mere mortals," he says with a laugh. Today, with 50,000 employees worldwide and revenues of $20.8 billion in 1996, Intel - in addition to providing the architecture and brains of most of the world's computers - now makes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
the organization, that should leave a company in good shape. But the responsibility for this standard has to be explicit and must be voiced at a level above the IT department.” Concludes Lynda Applegate, “If View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
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A Precursor from the 1930s
minorities), and integration with the University. In working on this last goal, HBS will be building on past accomplishments, for an extensive network of relationships already exists between the School and other parts of the University.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
O’Kelly, who formerly held high-profile positions as a CPA at KPMG and Toys “R” Us. “It’s important to know that you can be an entrepreneur, or continue to work, and still have a family,” she says. Pairing the hundreds of thousands of individuals in the Mom Corps View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
Management from 1960 to 2000," Nolan highlights the critical shifts in the four eras in the evolution of IT. The Industrial Era, he writes, created an automation mindset, while the Data Processing Era led to organizational transformations. He analyzes the dawning of... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
Using the power of crowdsourcing, Angie Hicks (MBA 2000) turned neighborly advice about good service providers into a national consumer network that has transformed the world of online reviews and ratings. In 1995, Hicks cofounded Angie’s... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
with mentors and identify potential investors. The Entrepreneurial Series: Idea and Pitch workshops kicked off on September 13, with three alumni-led companies in various stages pitching before four fellow alumni mentors. The workshop was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
this lesson with examples from new- and old-economy firms that have learned to “push when pulled” and leverage their opponents’ assets. The authors discuss in detail how the leaders of three companies — Palm Computing (and later... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
business model that in many respects mirrors Go-Jek’s, down to the green helmets and jackets that its drivers wear. In a city short on a transportation infrastructure, the companies are also competing as... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- News
Four Alumni Named as Presidential Leadership Scholars
2002), cofounder and CEO of Parsagen Diagnostics, an early-stage medical device company focused on women’s health The members of the 2018 class were selected based on their leadership growth potential and the strength of their personal... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
them in order to provide direction to the management negotiating team." This approach worked well, Carty says, in a recent negotiation with the Transport Workers Union. As a result of that negotiation, the View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
crops that otherwise would have gone to waste. The organization distributed a total of 76 million pounds of food in 2012 (26 million of which was perishable), both directly and through a network of nearly 1,000 food pantries and homeless... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
Excite@Home's acquisitions and partnerings with the many cable, computer, and media companies necessary to create its new platinum-paved info highway, Goldman has been heading some of the most interesting high-tech dealmaking going on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
pedestrians, correctly assigning an intention score (Do they want to cross the street?) and an awareness score (Do they know there is a car?) to each. Guided by technology developed by Perceptive Automata, the company cofounded by Misra,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
of US retail development. “The challenge with retail is delivering a consistent experience in every channel,” he says. “It’s largely about alignment between ourselves and our dealer network so that we can work together and deliver on the... View Details