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- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 09 May 2021
- Blog Post
Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year
a support group for one another as we navigated the joys and challenges of motherhood. The student parent community at Harvard Business School is heavily skewed towards fathers as opposed to mothers, with a 5:1 father to mother ratio.... View Details
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Deborah A. Farrington
investor at that point was Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle. In early 2000, Farrington met the firm’s other co-founder and then flew to California to meet with Larry Ellison. NetLedger’s business View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
NFTE program for India, dubbing it I Create. Aruna interviewed dozens of Indian entrepreneurs, seeking role models for Indian youth, and used 12 of their stories to write the book Everyday Entrepreneurs: The Harbingers of Prosperity and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
has had a storied business career. In the 1980s, she became the first female partner at Booz, Allen and helped build the consulting firm’s pharmaceutical practice. In the early 1990s, she was a deputy commissioner at the Food & Drug... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
Uber: Competing Globally
By: Alexander J. MacKay
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404. View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Strategy; Globalization; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation Networks; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai; Shanghai Shi; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; London; England; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
insight into how the business model might work. And so by seeing several industries in a very short period of time, then it really did teach me how to think strategically. And I think it's something that's... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Press, 2007), and a recent op-ed in the Financial Times, "The World Bank Must Fix its Business Model," Ebrahim has focused his research and teaching on the challenges of accountability, performance, and organizational learning... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
who she was—and maybe who she wanted to be. Falik never did find that outlet, which inspired her to build it herself. She spent her two years at HBS narrowing the vision and the model of an organization that she felt could address this... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of... View Details
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
virtual roller coaster of the financial markets. The findings are detailed in the paper How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel, co-authored by Marco Di Maggio, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
fighting stage-four cancer, a battle he sadly lost in 2019. His daughter, Jane Biondi Munna, compiled his words—along with recollections from Peter Chernin, Alan Schwartz, and Sherry Lansing, to name a few—so that we can all draw inspiration from Frank Biondi’s... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
business at the intersection of consumer electronics, media, and lifestyle branding. Skullcandy, which Andrus helped build with founder and former CEO Rick Alden, is expecting between $280 and $300 million in revenues this year. The... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
ideas with two of the same friends I had tried starting a company with earlier. Timing worked out well, as one of these friends had also just started business school at Sloan. To target our brainstorming, we focused specifically on how... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
MBA course in negotiation as well as advanced dealmaking electives and Executive Education programs), has developed a model with former HBS faculty member David A. Lax called "three-dimensional negotiation." In a course note... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
regularly for support around personal, family, and business matters. Modeled on the concept developed by the Young President's Organization (YPO), the forums were pioneered over 20 years ago by Bob Halperin... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
separate things out. And the way we make food right now is in parallel, so the different items in your order will be split up and different people will handle them then it’ll all come together. And that was through a lot of iteration, we wanted to get high throughput... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture