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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like LEGO, Cranium is not a product that... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
Zárraga told Fortune. “It fits into your life instead of you having to do something new or different and connects you to others, so you are never alone.” “With creating Flare, we wanted to offer an effective, practical tool, not a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
technology that would adapt to my playing style in real time instead of forcing me to fit a recording." Chao was right. She found former concert oboist Christopher Raphael, now chair of computer science at Indiana University, who was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
three of the women had been employed continuously in a full-time position. The remaining women, she recounted, had moved in and out of the workforce, adjusting the scope and rhythms of their professional lives to fit with family and other... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
food industry interest you, because there are many different facets. What functional areas would be a good fit for you? What part of the food supply chain? If you aren’t sure, your time at HBS is a great time to explore options and ask... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
aside conventional thinking to reveal that any group - if designed and managed effectively - can produce innovative services, products, and processes. Unlike most books on creativity, When Sparks Fly focuses on the process as it applies to groups of people who may not... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Variety, “(t)he Fund will contribute on a sustained, long-term basis to organizations on the front lines of the fight for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging.” JULY 23 John Foley (MBA 2001), cofounder and CEO of fitness... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
just made the biggest mistake of my life by thinking that I could fit in at HBS. I learned that my 75 sectionmates had been working on Wall Street or in banks or as salesmen for Xerox and IBM. At least six of them were certified public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Action Plan: Tapping into a Legacy
out whether I was a cultural fit for the business and vice versa. If I had a different set of values, I don’t think I’d have this job now.” Park your ego at the door. “Remember you’re a custodian rather than the rock-and-roll star at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Action Plan: Rapids Growth
the water, and if they did, they wouldn’t recommend the boats they’re selling. You want a paddlesports-specific retailer—a good one will offer lessons and tours too.” Fit matters. “It’s really important, just as in skiing or mountain... View Details
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
could be prescribed, assembled, and fitted in the field by trained microentrepreneurs rather than by optometrists or ophthalmologists. The next step was to form a "Low Cost Available Eyeglasses" (LCAE) team and enter the HBS Business Plan... View Details
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- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the sweet spot of entrepreneurship. And so Eli Whitney View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or... View Details
- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
case beforehand but cannot say that I mastered all the data or how they fit together. Indeed, Professor Abdelal sort of apologized at the top of the class for assigning the case, given its breadth and complexity, but the students seemed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
company. He convinced his advisor that because of Carpé’s work studying high-altitude cosmic rays for Bell Labs, the expedition fit the School’s requirements. Following the successful expedition to the top of Mount Bona, Moore requested a... View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- News
All in Good Time
governor in 2006—Silbert responds, "It's not something I'd rule out. But how would it fit in my life? I like the balance I have now." While she graduated over 20 years ago, Silbert values the new HBS contacts she's made—none of whom she'd... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
they’ll fit when people cradle them between head and shoulder. Innovation and process within a firm can coexist and even feed off each other, if you manage their different and sometimes opposing functions smartly. Indeed, if you want to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
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Don’t Be Afraid of AI
think about something that fits in your hand, people gotta stop thinking about robots as R2-D2. Imagining a little robot that has sensors on it that is just put on the bridge and crawling all over the bridge all the time. Taking in all of... View Details