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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
potentially make a transformative contribution to public debate? Once we have a question that fits the bill, we pose it to scholars in our community, which includes over 350 professors, graduate students, and professional researchers from... View Details
- 05 Apr 2020
- News
Launching in a World in Limbo
the context. With potential customers largely confined to their homes, it will now go up against established platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video that can be watched on any screen, including the living room TV. Quibi works only... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
they look forward to the center serving as a hub for bringing together diverse groups for productive discussions on everything from the economy of the future to the potential of free enterprise to business ethics and corporate values. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
said. In another bold move, Gerstner and IBM opted early on for open systems — despite the company's tradition of developing its own technology — and embraced the nascent Internet. Thus, when the Internet took off, creating a vast new world of View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
on this new information, are you still comfortable with your 90 percent estimate?” In such cases, overconfidence can diminish the inclination to compromise, with potentially disastrous consequences. “While confidence in your abilities is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
NIH grant applications from 1992 to 2005. She plotted links between applicants and evaluators—via professional publication citations—to determine potential bias. Then, to establish the quality of the funded projects, she tracked the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
been testing blockchain’s potential for a few years now. But until Northern Trust’s pilot began this past spring, private equity investors didn’t have a commercial application for blockchain. Aware of the tech’s View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Club of Dallas Explores Election Reform and Political Innovation in Virtual Talk As the presidential election nears, the potential for an unusual outcome that could spark a Constitutional crisis seems to grow... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
those markets and potentially crash the economy. “We really want to protect the people who interact with, and rely on, the markets,” says Jones. “If people couldn’t trust how the markets work, then we’d be in a tough space.” Jones and her... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed, the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website, and he takes the company’s slogan—“Love Mondays”—to heart. Even so, he admits he has a side hustle. When... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
School graduates on every continent, there is such potential for this institution to make a real difference in the world. Our family is proud to be able to play a small role in helping to make that difference." Three stories high with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
Schrier. Interviews with potential advisees helped the cofounders create a viable business model. The Equity Network would be a mentor marketplace to give the next generation of Black, Latinx, and Native American business leaders greater... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
with, and research inside the corporate and financial sectors, know firms’ operations and industry practices well. They have a pretty good hunch where the corporate O-Rings are located — those potential pressure points that could explode... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
to effectiveness in your current job? Do you take ownership of focusing on those tasks? Character and leadership. Do you speak up and generally act like an owner in your job? Relationships. You won't reach your potential all by yourself.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
intimidating aura. "On a dreary January day, we drove over the border," he recalls. "The East German countryside, still under communist rule, bristled with barbed wire and watchtowers." But Hughes's initial assessment of the factory's View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
history, Austin and his coauthors identified the decision to mainstream social enterprise material into every aspect of HBS research and teaching as “a defining strategic choice.” Today, the initiative’s strategic objectives range from cultivating outstanding faculty... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
industry's rapid evolution, coupled with the availability of ample data, made it rich ground for research. Given the potentially overwhelming threat of disruptive technologies, why do so many managers appear to overlook them? The problem... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) launched Hope and Comfort out of his Boston-area garage in 2011 to address the issue of hygiene insecurity in Massachusetts. "If you don't have basic hygiene products, it's very hard to stay clean, healthy, and confident," he explains. "No one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to proactively reach out to potential and current customers about products and services, digital and delivery options, health safeguards, and payment plans,” Deshpandé advises. “Whether demand has declined or increased during such... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
up the value chain from call center operations to legal document processing and graphic design. I do feel optimistic about Jamaica’s future. We’re hoping to see businesses create 50 or 100 new jobs, not one or two. We’ve doubled down on that View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna