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- 01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
in computers and consumer electronics, Shih says, “We tried to highlight some of the unusual, fresh thinking — such as IBM’s radical collaboration model in semiconductor R&D — that business leaders are using to approach the challenges... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch Stylus Innovation, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
users control of other computers remotely is priced as low as $20. And business is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey found that global security incidents rose 38 percent in 2015—the biggest jump in the survey’s 12-year history.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
Sikh-founded, $100-million group of service and product companies (including Sun & Son, Inc., a national Lotus Notesbased computer consulting firm specializing in e-commerce; Akal Security Company; and natural food enterprises such as the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and, with the clarity of hindsight,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research, venture-capitalist Henry McCance (MBA... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
First Look: Harvard’s New Launch Lab, a Home for Alumni Startups
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is running dry. Based on his... View Details
- 30 Jan 2009
- News
What’s It Worth to You?
How much is a CEO worth? What is appropriate compensation for the leader of a large and complex organization? One frequent reply has been “Let the market decide.” The “market” apparently decided that Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld was worth nearly $500 million over... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
odds and get better. (Editor's note: Wang suffered a stem cell stroke in 2010 and is a quadriplegic mute with "locked-in syndrome." She uses eye-tracking technology to communicate by computer and to operate a motorized wheelchair. Wang... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
encompass all the innovations the digital revolution has enabled. When I started teaching, we used slide rules. The handheld calculator was the first round of the revolution. Personal computers and the spreadsheet changed everything... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
example of Jobs and Wozniak at the birth of Apple Computer. “Were they the right guys to create a hand-assembled computer motherboard company in 1976?” he asks rhetorically. Answer: sure. But—were they the right guys to build a major... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 19 Feb 2014
- News
Kenneth Griffin Makes Largest Gift in Harvard College History
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
million lives a year. EMRI is the brainchild of Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993), the founder and chairman of Indian IT and consulting powerhouse Satyam Computer Services. The inspiration for EMRI came from his travels for Satyam, which,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Lessons from Private Equity
GADIESH: To reap private equity returns, act more like a private equity manager COURTESY OF BAIN & CO A recent Harvard Business Review article headlined “If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business” gave many leaders of public companies a thoughtful pause: Why can’t we... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
study of companies in Western countries. But while innovation was the most important driver of high performance among the corporations in the Western economies, in Asian companies the key element was how customer-oriented firms were. That prompted View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Professor of Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their View Details
Keywords: Susan Young