Communism - Publications - Faculty & Research

Harold S. Geneen

Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to become one of the largest... View Details

Keywords: Communications

01 Feb 2001
News

Changing Student Life

Inc., whose online "Campus in a Click" intranet services provide cost-effective, interactive communication for all people associated with an institution of higher learning. "We're changing student life," Jackson explained. "You remember... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information

07 Apr 2017
News

Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires

When economist Horacio Rodríguez Larreta (MBA 1993) was elected mayor of Argentina’s capital in 2015, he promised to address conditions in the city’s slums, which house about a quarter million of the city’s 3 million people. A recent article in the Financial Times... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

23 Mar 2010
News

A Fighter in the Preservation Trenches

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

July 2000 (Revised July 2001)
Case

Sycamore Networks

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Daniel J. Green

Founders Desh Deshpande and Dan Smith reflect on Sycamore's sales strategies and consider how going public might affect the morale of its key employees. In the optical networking sector, technological change and exploding demand has created a market for talent in which... View Details

Keywords: Applied Optics; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Business Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Retention; Employees; Communication Technology; Technological Innovation; Communications Industry; Communications Industry

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19 Nov 2018
News

Acts of Kindness

Michael Robertson (AMP 82, 1979) is the interim minister at Plymouth Congregational Church in Racine, Wisconsin. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on service to his community and the importance of advocating for kindness in our... View Details

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

ecosystem that will improve access to electricity in off-grid communities across the globe. “It sounds complicated,” Ayala says, “but we set it up this way to have a globally scalable business model.” Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines,... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

Don H. Barden

Barden capitalized on the expansion of cable in the early eighties by targeting predominantly African-American communities. He secured the wiring rights to the city of Detroit and formed a partnership with Maclean Hunter, one of Canada’s largest cable companies, to... View Details

Keywords: Communications

08 Mar 2018
News

How HBS Gives Back

the greater good. The piece details several initiatives, from Senior Lecturer Kevin Mohan’s position as chair of Boys Town to the students who work as mentors at the Gardner Pilot Academy through the Volunteer Corps to the Knowledge and Library Services staff’s work... View Details

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

The same will follow for the next five years, only more so, with more people connected for communication and collaboration. No one had mentioned financial markets, observed Robert Glaser, founder and CEO of RealNetworks. His view of 2008... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Communications; Communications; Communications

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2013
News

Revitalizing America

Faculty Opinion Illustration by Corbis/Image Zoo/Cargo Whatever the question—disaster relief, education, health care, foreign policy—national and community service is an answer. Organizing a full-time civilian service corps—the civilian... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

02 Sep 2014
News

Many of the best ideas for improving health care are quite simple

better together than people who haven’t—and most organizations could do a far better job of exploiting this simple but powerful insight,” he says. Huckman’s research points to five factors that make team familiarity powerful: the ability to View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

sense, and that would still be a huge boon to the community that won the bid. But when the RFP landed in his inbox at the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) later that same afternoon in September 2017, Moret found that... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

09 Sep 2011
News

Ten Years Ago: HBS and 9/11

As the world recalls the events of 9/11 this week, we are reminded of two articles from the Bulletin that offered contemporaneous accounts of that historic moment. Read how the School reacted to the tragedy and memorialized members of the HBS View Details

Keywords: HBS Alumni Bulletin; 9/11; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

get involved with community development? For some years, the area around the church had been in steady decline, with vacant storefronts, deteriorating houses, and neglected properties. Gang activity and drug use were on the increase.... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2018
News

Raising the Barrio

vocational schools are scheduled to open in the barrio. They will be the first public schools in a community where only about 60 percent of adults have finished secondary school. A massive construction project is also under way to reroute... View Details

Keywords: April White

2017
Performance & Appearance

How Fabulous is too Fabulous? The Masculinity Dilemmas of Daring Dressers at Work

25 Apr 2014
News

Serving as a cultural ambassador

case about our Tohoku partners," Tamaki recalls. "We hope that the cases will inspire ideas about how to help communities recover from future disasters." Her team worked with an entrepreneur who built a hotel out of trailer homes in a... View Details