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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
When did you and your cofounder come up with the idea for Bubble (Bubble is a visual programming tool that empowers anyone to build software, apps, and websites without writing any code)? Josh Haas, my cofounder, came up with the idea View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century till today. It tells the story of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
providers, abetted by legislators and insurance companies, have made it virtually impossible for them to succeed. Unlike any other U.S. industry, consumers do not set prices, yet they provide all the money through taxes for government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
business ethicist Nash, a senior research fellow at HBS, and Stevenson, an entrepreneurship expert and HBS professor, offer a practical framework designed to help readers define and achieve success in terms that are personally meaningful... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the material. He had a European background and a broad knowledge of international affairs and business that came through in any discussion.” “He was my favorite teacher, because he was so tough," Andreas Andresen, a retired German... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
organizing household finances, in 1983 Cook cofounded Intuit with the novel idea of producing—as it did with Quicken, its initial offering, and later with its acquisition of TurboTax—financial software as a consumer-oriented,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
margins, want reform to be instituted through the familiar public-school structure. For their part, HBS graduates have long been involved in various education initiatives and reform efforts. Alumni have created and funded national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
creates an opening for entrepreneurs who can meet the profitability challenge by reexamining the whole business model — a process that might involve customer acquisition or retention, or pricing innovations. It is only fitting for the... View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
revolutionary advances in business," said John N. Maxemchuk, who, with Marie-Laure Goepfer (both HBS '02), cochaired the three-day February conference, sponsored by the High Tech & New Media Club. "This year, in addition to addressing the keen ongoing interest in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
Administration, outlining the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and crediting McArthur's support for many of the recent accomplishments in this area. "The School [is now] in an excellent position to lead the field into... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
locales with his family. So it was jarring to read a third of the way through his recent autobiography, A Global Life (PublicAffairs), that Wolfensohn was in despair on his 40th birthday. “I used my birthdays to reflect on my life, and at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
contemplated becoming a professor, but was persuaded to stay on at the School. In 1963, he completed his DBA and joined the faculty. Over the next seventeen years, he moved up through the School’s ranks — teaching finance, writing cases,... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A man on a mission
“If I’m doing anything to change the world,” says retired NASA administrator Julian Earls (PMD 37, 1979), “it is using any power and influence I have to lift up other people.” He has done that by helping others to further their potential View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
history, it’s likely the crisis would have been avoided, Cook argues. Six years after the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, taxpayers continue to own and heavily subsidize one of the largest companies in the world. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
alma mater and the companies I’ve worked at, I was only exacerbating the network gap.” Schrier, who is white, had met Hu virtually through the HBS network prior to their first year, and although they had been pursuing independent startups... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
incubators of innovation. Issue Focus: Innovation Innovating in Your Business Will This Alum Change Education? HBS Simulations Go High-Tech A Lesson in Israeli Entrepreneurship In the modern era, beginning after World War II, business’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
support have loosened." Through her research into how businesses and communities interact, Kanter is finding ways for the two to join forces as companies move into the global economy. In fact, she says, what's good for towns and cities is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies
said Dean Kim B. Clark in announcing the gift. “All of us in the HBS community are forever grateful to Arthur for his generosity and help as we guide the School to meet the demands of the new century. We are proud to rename South Hall — the building that houses our... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
knew his response would set the tone for businesses everywhere that looked to GE—one of America’s biggest and most-heralded corporations—for direction. Over the next sixteen years, Immelt would lead GE through many more dire moments, from... View Details