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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
for the world to tell you what job you're best suited for? What if you had the answers before you started your career? That's the premise of the career-matching firm pymetrics. Series of neuroscience-based games, users can determine their... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
been successful in executing an aggressive growth plan that found its crown jewel in the acquisition of Celtel, one of the largest telecom companies in sub-Saharan Africa. However, this acquisition threw MTC into a dynamic new context and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
now a SVP of Greenlight.com, which recently merged with CarsDirect.com. “It moved quickly from class project to religious quest,” adds Nussey, the former CEO of e-business consulting firm iXL and current president and CEO of Silverpop... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
concerned. Hopefully, the longer-term economic response will also be executed in ways that will avoid unleashing yet another round of deflationary forces. Unfortunately, there is little margin for error this time. Tom Nicholas, Associate... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Industry Author: Geoffrey Jones Publication: Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Abstract The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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David A. Frankel
deferred enrollment twice during which time he founded IS and grew it into what became the largest ISP in all of Africa. By age 27, he had sold the company to Dimension Data, taken a board seat as an executive and was zealously obeying... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
advertisers, historical and real-time traffic information to insurance underwriters, and more. Mistele was a Detroit kid, the son of a lawyer, who had an early interest in technology. “When I was in high school, I worked for an electrical engineering View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
and an inspiration for the next generation of strategy scholars. Its direct impact on practice could be seen subsequently in the work of The Boston Consulting Group and other firms that employed what became known as the SWOT analysis... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
and other firms that employed what became known as the SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) in addressing the challenges of client organizations. In 1987, the Academy of Management recognized Christensen’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Care Initiative. He teaches the second-year course Transforming Health Care Delivery, as well as executive education programs for a number of hospitals. He serves on the advisory board for RubiconMD, which provides telehealth services,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
doctors at least two weeks to sift through these mutations, searching for the ones that were diagnostically significant. But Watson was able to highlight within moments which mutated genes had likely developed into cancer. Based on... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
to bring the wisdom of multiple generations together and to provide roles for senior executives perhaps downshifting or... But again, I'd, I'd really love to hear your wisdom on that model. SWG: I'm hearing that it's varied. You know, and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Oregon, when she was six years old, and her parents’ anxious search for a home in the best possible school district, which led to a full-tuition scholarship at the University of Oregon. Noting that the option to choose one’s neighborhood... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
fastest-growing urban businesses. This year, the ICIC and the School's Executive Education Owner-Managed Programs will offer a special one-week general management seminar for the IC 100 CEOs. "If we can get companies like these growing in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and head of the School's Entrepre-neurial Unit. An HBS faculty member for over 25 years, Applegate also serves as faculty chair of the Business Owner Portfolio of Executive... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind down a financial View Details
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Michael Maples
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a successful IBM executive and a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
research and have them think that it’s relevant, I haven’t earned the right to stand in front of a classroom of new MBAs,” he says. “We are committed to ensuring that our students’ research is robust and relevant,” confirms John Korn (PMD 78, 2003), View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
ventures they began, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Of those, take one area for closer inspection in search of the HBS imprint - broadcast and cable television. In the mid-1950s, Thomas S. Murphy (MBA '49) found himself managing an... View Details