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- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that even more than the student-to-teacher ratio, this is optimizing the student-to-valuable-time-with-the-teacher ratio. This model we’re experimenting with gels with the best learning experiences I had in my own public school in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based Orbital will have surpassed $450... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
because it was about a very gritty part of the world, but we saw it as an amazing thriller. We do movies for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes it’s because it’s something that we just really love and feel like, yes, there’s a View Details
- 11 Oct 2019
- News
Balancing Act
business world as an investment-banking associate. She was often the only woman in a meeting—a fact that was frequently commented on by colleagues and clients—and when she looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Engine Charlie
WILSON: Decades in the auto business. Charles Wilson (MBA 1936) came into this world back when Henry Ford was cranking out Model Ts. Unlike those now retired roadsters, Wilson, at 100 years old, is still active in the car business,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
will carry the day.” An assistant professor of organization and strategy at Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Moreton has focused his research on economic and organizational View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
es-says by the cocreator of the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc. Bricklin discusses how people and technologies — cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, and personal Web sites, among others — affect one another and how the technologies can be improved. Rain: What a Paperboy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
lessons I’d learned earlier in combat and proved that they applied not only in war but also in business and life. Here are a few of those lessons; maybe some will ring true. First, I’ve learned that time is a precious gift, and with that... View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959) Two institutions completely changed the life of Charles P. Waite, says Patti Waite Bishop about her late father, a venture capital pioneer and founding partner at Greylock Management: the US Army and Harvard View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
in Economic Sciences for his work on the valuation of stock options, had held the George Fisher Baker Professorship of Business Administration at HBS since 1988. The John and Natty McArthur University Professorship was established after... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
leave the safe haven of home. The coronavirus pandemic has decimated hotel occupancy rates. What does the way forward look like? Mike Depatie: Nobody could see anything like this coming—what’s happened in the hotel business is truly... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Taking MBA know-how on tour across America
mobile consultation service for entrepreneurs called MBAs Across America. “We felt a responsibility to use our resources for a nobler purpose,” says Gerald. The MBA students met with American business owners, advised them on everything... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
just to compete,” she says. After high school, she worked as a maid and as a typist in New York City and Washington, DC, and then attended Howard University, where she enrolled in a business class taught by Professor H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right
to pay anything they want for a product, a rational consumer should pay nothing, and that’s not a business model anyone can sustain. So how much do people tend to pay? First, most consumers pay more than... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
MBA Class of 2004 Celebrates Class Day and Commencement
graduates to think in terms of win-win solutions. “If you can try to recognize the other person’s perspective and craft a solution that wins for both sides,” he said, “you’ll create a much longer-term model of success.” At Commencement... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
where I am now," he says. And each helped him create a model for the kind of business he ultimately wanted to run. In the middle of the last decade, Harris submitted a detailed list of parameters for his... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hoffer and Hourdequin: Managing Directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of the Lyme Timber Company LP It can be difficult to craft a business model that enables both... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of capital and the demand for financing. The book's final chapter suggests areas for further study. "Much is not yet known about the venture capital industry," write Gompers and Lerner, who note that one open question is the extent to which the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
strength and performance, with the goal of preserving and extending patients’ independence and functionality. Blum, who has served Cytokinetics in various roles since its launch in 1998, is quick to point out that the company’s business... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg