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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
evolution of "action pricing"—setting an audacious price goal and endeavoring to meet it. The laptop typifies technological breakthroughs that influence the mainstream in ways that could have large potential impact. The diffusion also suggests the stumbling... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
2009 Abstract This chapter explores issues of how Chinese railroads improved social mobility and standards of living along major trunk lines, and how foreign investment shaped the integration of the Chinese railroad network from the early... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
communication. We propose that a barrier to the sharing of ideas pertinent to innovation in inter-cultural relationships is low affect-based trust, which arises from individuals' deficits in inter-cultural capability. Results from a study of a sample of executives'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
It had to be a company and leaders that I could respect. So, I know many people just want to get on a board. You can’t do that. You’ve got to go where you have a fit. One of my first boards, you weren’t expected to talk, but all the other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
to ‘Dr. Famous,’ who was booked for 17 weeks out, while brand-new doctors only had 30 percent of their schedules filled.” Inspired by the efficiency that companies like Travelocity brought to the airline industry, Gardner created Kyruus... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Lead: Women and Leadership," sponsored by the New YorkÐbased HBS Network of Women Alumnae (HBSNWA). The gathering included women from the HRPBA Class of 1958 all the way up to the most recent graduating MBA Class of 1997. All had set... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
best-practice tales from the frontlines, and networking opportunities with other alumni. "I had forgotten how great it is to be in a classroom," said Alan M. Silberstein (MBA '72), after hearing Professor William A. Sahlman's humor-filled... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a national View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Web
Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care with health care partners Increase operational efficiencies: Match clinical resources to clinical processes and improve resource utilization Optimize costs over the full cycle of care Manage reimbursement and payment challenges Expand your personal and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
resulted over time in one of the most vibrant and highly regarded alumni networks anywhere. Aside from their sheer volume (at present, a total of 300 pages per issue) and scope (current copy provided by 853 class and section... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS
had I already spent four months looking for a job, but also most companies that were remotely related to my background were done with recruiting by then. I found myself still unemployed in February (and I realized I was not the only one... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
helpful. Can someone tell us how insurance companies make money?” And so, the first day of our post-9/11 lives began. Just six days earlier, in what suddenly seemed like a parallel universe, Frances had introduced us to her course on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
difficult,” he says. In its new incarnation, EyeView provides advertisers, agencies, and video networks a platform to create personalized online, broadcast-quality video ads tailored to the viewer by location, time of day, real-time... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
"a sorry receiver," followed by a message for Crabtree: "Don't you ever talk about me!" Twitter members reacted forcefully and en masse, to the point that major news networks published stories with headlines like... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
own reality check to offer. Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Singapore, she debunked the lumping together of all Chinese on the assumption that they are somehow linked to each other simply because they are Chinese. The supposition that there exists an... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
find that during the 2008 financial crisis, PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne