Power And Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2014
News

Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS

throughout the world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising money,” he noted. “It provides an opportunity to inspire and engage the next generation of leaders at the School—to better connect alumni with each other View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

television markets but will hold their games in intimate, spectator-friendly venues. This strategy should produce the revenues and crowds (per-game target: 2,500 fans) to meet initial break-even projections. The league will draw on a fan... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

policy, military strategy, and the development of the American West. As a member of the House from 1795 to 1801, he was the first powerful congressman who lived on the western side of the Appalachian... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Generation Next

Family-owned companies account for more than two-thirds of all business around the globe. In fact, most of the world's largest and most influential business organizations are family-run. In the United States, for example, firms such as... View Details

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Time Warner) are defining the business models that are reshaping the global business landscape and redefining power. Once again, emerging models exploit the power of technological, business, View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

01 Mar 2014
News

My HBS Eureka Moment

lessons that influenced much of the thinking in my career. The first came the day a highly respected venture capitalist visited class and talked about his endeavors. A classmate asked him if he had ever... View Details

Keywords: Walter Frese; Martin V. Marshall; C. Roland Christensen; Lawrence Fouraker; Educational Services

Profile

Nathalie du Preez

conflicting viewpoints, challenge my existing preconceived ideas, and help me make business decisions in the future in a more powerful way. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

01 Dec 2016
News

Passion Projects

Turning teddy bears into art On a trip to London in the 1980s, John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) and his wife snapped a picture of two teddy bears posed near a Buckingham Palace guard. The normally staid guard bowed to the bears, View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 1999
News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

campaign finance reform? I'm very supportive of it. Money is way too important here in Washington. People who contribute the most influence legislation the most. And that's obviously contrary to our... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Portrait Project

Smriti Jayaraman

arms of Silicon Valley, the Oz I was fated to call home. Here, I grew up watching the rise of tech giants and developed my own tenacious confidence in the power of technology. Today, video-messaging is not... View Details

03 Jan 2017
News

Using Technology to Tailor Learning to Each Child

now, we’re cramming so much technology into schools and we’re not really leveraging the power that the internet can bring to connect students to all sorts of experiences and to... View Details

Portrait Project

Adam Gassin

them a more excellent way. I will show them virtue, humility, and generosity bring real happiness. I will show them no role is more powerful or important than mother or father. I will show them the Gospel of... View Details

Profile

Kayode Ogunro

power of private enterprise to bring positive change to Africa. "VCPE seemed like a pretty efficient way to finance growth," says Kayode. An e-mail exchange with Professor Lerner evolved into a guided thesis project on foreign... View Details

Blog

Exceptional Learning—Wherever You Are

Can a virtual learning experience be as dynamic, energetic, and powerful as a classroom session? With its Live Online Classroom, HBS proves that the answer is a resounding yes. Through an initiative that... View Details

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Democracy has a dirty little secret. Despite the fever pitch over presidential primaries this year, the truth is there are few people actually voting. Before the most recent round of voting, only some 11 percent of eligible Democrats voted in the primaries, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

01 Dec 2018
News

Code Breakers

Photo courtesy of Deborah Singer Photo courtesy of Deborah Singer For all of its innovation, the tech sector still lags behind the general economy in gender parity, and the news is only getting worse: Whereas the percentage of women in... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

How to Write a Great Business Plan

would-be backers a realistic idea of what magnitude of reward they can expect and when they can expect it. A great business plan is not easy to compose, Sahlman acknowledges, largely because most entrepreneurs are wild-eyed optimists. But... View Details

Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman

Profile

Mariama Keita

effectively. GDP is about output and adding value. If we could go beyond farming cocoa to process it, we could expand our economic base. To take the next steps, we need a better understanding of fiscal View Details

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would require expensive storage View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

12 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Applying to HBS in Round 3?

I needed to influence how business is done at its core level to implement socially responsible governance and supply chain. Learning about all the different business schools out there – their missions,... View Details

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