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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Gravity, the space thriller released last week, features two of Hollywood's brightest stars: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It rocketed to an October record $55 million gross in its opening week, well on its way to returning a profit... View Details
- Profile
Kimball Thomas
this is something special.” Kimball’s initial impressions have been confirmed by his experiences at the school. “HBS provides a confrontation with issues, a challenge to your way of thinking whatever your background,” he says. “In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
Alloways Creek, a region that makes it clear why New Jersey is called the Garden State. She named it Neptune, after the investment business she and a partner ran in New York City. At first it was just a weekend getaway, but then she found herself staying an extra day.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Paul Yeh
automotive sector. I want to develop greener, safer, cheaper, and more exciting vehicles. I want to transform the way consumers shop for and buy their cars. I want to change people's driving behavior to minimize their impact on the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Janice Lin
"favorite aunt." I'll find a way to make senior care desirable and not negative. I'll live and abide by "no fear." Most importantly, I'll burn as brightly as possible for a short period of time, but impart every bit of... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
focused on his mission to reduce waste—and eight years later, his risk has paid off. The Flashfood app is now being tapped by customers in more than 2,000 supermarkets in the United States and Canada. What’s more, the app has kept 65... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
the last decade, under the leadership of Howard Stevenson, Bill Sahlman, and their colleagues, HBS has greatly expanded its commitment to this area. Our faculty have developed new ideas about launching and sustaining new ventures that have changed the View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
New York City. Armed with a “healthy respect for what I didn't know,” he excelled as an investor and was soon asked to help start a merchant bank in London. He returned to the United States in 1973 and served as chief of financial... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Portrait Project
Yushu Zhou
The fiftieth time my parents sent me off at the Shanghai Pudong Airport was also the first time I noticed from the view of their backs how much they had aged. My mind went blank, my body stopped moving, and my tears streamed down my face. For ten years, I had thought... View Details
- Portrait Project
Valentina Zarya
When I was twelve years old, I dyed my hair blue. I hated my natural hair color—a light, unobtrusive brown—because it seemed way too boring. The deep, mysterious cyan that I chose instead was more aligned with the woman I wanted to be. I... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ryan Fennerty
not as “mine and theirs,” but “ours.” Of all the things I hope to achieve in this life, I hope for this: that I give my children the opportunities I had growing up to experience the richness of the world beyond their immediate boundaries. That I teach them to embrace... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
of the event. Are we talking about figure skating, a sport whose artistry and excitement regularly attract huge television audiences (including many women viewers), or bobsledding, which normally attracts little attention in the United... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
becomes evident that digital communications will fundamentally reshape the way businesses market, and often deliver, goods and services. The current communications revolution is hardly the first to be encountered by marketers. Prior... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
remote-work models for years, focusing on what he calls “the geography of work” in organizations as diverse as the US Patent Office and open-source collaboration platform GitLab. In this conversation, he and Chandrasekar discuss the strategic benefits of remote work,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
were to decide you’re comfortable sharing data with US government authorities, how comfortable are you sharing the data with the government in China? That’s a huge market for you. How can you say yes to the United States and no to China?... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
that combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many traditional means of producing... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
great-grandmother had her first child at age 17 and had twin boys at age 49. If you keep that in mind, you can see why it’s not always possible for cousins to find each other when their parents or grandparents emigrated to the United... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
that combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many traditional means of producing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Unsurprisingly, then, Jakarta underwhelms in comparison to other world centers. Last year, in its annual liveability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Jakarta 116—below Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New Delhi—out of 140 cities.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
of what they do. And 5 percent are born with the instinct. There are things that they do and ways that they think that are intuitive. The rest of us could learn what these innovators do if somebody would just crawl inside their brains and... View Details