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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
mostly from high-tech and life-science start-ups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on terms in the venture’s first month, and the majority finalizes the split at that point. But there’s a real danger in splitting equity too soon and setting it in stone. It is... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
with a healthy alternative.'" Which HBS case study had the greatest impact on you, and why? "'NuCor Steel' changed the way I evaluate innovation. I am now very much on the lookout for low-end disruptors as well as aware of incumbents'... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
to make a little bit of money and also to alleviate the difficulty of transporting things from point A to point B quickly. How have the country’s existing supply chains affected distribution? In the United States, freight arteries roughly overlay the interstates.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
microscope by thousands of HBS students, tell it like it was and relate what they’ve learned and what they believe about being a leader. Toby Johnson Putting Her People First Whether leading in military or civilian life (bottom, at Frito-Lay), Johnson says, “If you do... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
ceaselessly creating and disseminating new knowledge, and converting it to action over time. In The Wise Company, legendary management experts Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi highlight how various companies have confronted the challenge of rapid View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Ready for Takeoff: Web Portal Enters Second Phase
After two years of building its readership, honing its mission, and crafting fresh, insightful content, HBS Working Knowledge is poised for the next stage of its development. "It's an exciting time. We launched the original product with... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
says he loved the idea of boosting domestic energy production while recycling existing sources of CO2, because he had come to HBS looking to merge his interests in business, energy, and the environment. The son of a commercial fisherman,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Power of Entrepreneurship
everything. When you go to the slums of Mexico, they don't have that privilege. And it's a complete market failure. So it is two parts: It's access to better products and services in the emerging middle class and entrepreneurship as a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
a boy," he recounts. "At home, we ate rice and could only afford roti, a type of bread, on holidays. I thought my uncle must be rich, because his family ate roti every night. "I saw billboards for the first time and bragged to my friends back in Balidhip that the View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
because they came easily to me. So, in RC Marketing, I was especially paying attention because I knew I had lots to learn! One simple lesson that I certainly did not appreciate before I took Marketing centered on how to price a product. When you price a View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
clean energy technology, and customer demand for products and services. Another case looks at Norsk Gjenvinning, Norway’s largest supplier of recycling and environmental services, which was purchased by a private equity fi rm in 2012.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
output has resulted in commercial products manufactured in a number of domestic and overseas industrial parks, also championed by Yeo. He, as much as anyone, has fostered the country's knowledge-based economy and set its future course.... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
standard products also employ natural language processing for analysis. Arieli (left) and Schlatka (right) cofounded Synthesis to offer a mid-range solution for the growing executive assessment industry The key, Schlatka says, is not to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Ambidextrous Organization
In the April 2004 issue of Harvard Business Review, HBS professor Michael L. Tushman and coauthor Charles A. O’Reilly III discuss what they coin the “ambidextrous organization.” A synopsis of their article follows. Corporate executives must constantly look backward,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
phenomenon that retailers have also seen in categories such as home and fashion, but beauty’s more accessible price point makes it a natural space for retailers to experiment with the hybrid shopping model. The everyday presence of beauty View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
at the School, John H. Davis, coined the term "agribusiness." The two men wanted a word to describe the complex value-added chain that begins with a farmer's purchase of livestock or seed and ends with a product ready for the consumer's... View Details