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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
waited seven to ten years before setting up their own shops, today’s graduates are taking the plunge much sooner. In 1997, the first-ever HBS Business Plan Contest yielded a formidable number of participants and mobilized a strong... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
or shortcomings in growing their companies and new ventures. This book blends exclusive research findings, personal interviews, and experienced analysis to illustrate how each type handles the five dynamic challenges of building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Institute of MIT and Harvard to further genomic research, developing a contest that aimed to improve the benchmark algorithm set by Broad scientists, which it did, 14 times faster. Lakhani explains that when structuring an experiment, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of challenges with implementing innovative new services. Economic View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
within and outside the School, helping HBS to set an agenda for the future. While entrepreneurial scholars had traditionally focused on who entrepreneurs were and what they did, the colloquium helped expand the emphasis to how they did... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
contention in the family because my brother, Chuck, being one year younger, kept getting left out of these things. He never had a job. Well, later on, he would sack at the grocery store with me. I still have out here, a nice set of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
groups that have been part of HBS for years. The teams, which meet only during the first year, are assigned across sections and with an eye to mixing students from a variety of backgrounds. They also encourage in-depth case analysis and... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
the combination of a desire to hold out for the best. And it's also this belief that option value is really sort of valuable in and of itself. That combination not only hurts you because you become indecisive and you become trapped in this View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
buying-patterns should set off alarms. Why hasn't this issue received more attention? In this country, we've had an implicit cost-benefit analysis in the backs of our minds for many decades that the movement... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in public... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Lou Wells taught me what I think of as ‘granular mastery’—that all truth is found in specific detail,” says Bradley, who as a student researched and wrote an article for Harvard Business Review about the overseas expropriation of US assets. After running a regression... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
curriculum. In that exercise, designed to make managers more comfortable using personal computers and to help them recognize the changes technology would bring to their organizations, each participant was provided with a personal computer to use for View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
we wanted to make the program sustainable, with the hope in the future that the program itself would not be needed, as an organization’s culture and fabric would be able to support this neuro-diversity from recruitment to on-boarding, development, and job progression.”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
companies and nurtured numerous leading-edge products in a wide range of areas, including information technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. In achieving all that, it has also set the standard for integrity in every... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors have helped scale hundreds of hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Drawing on their experience, they present 50 clear, proven, and up-to-date scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them. Abbott and Fisher transform... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
recognize these essential characteristics, Schumpeter concludes, “does a meaningless job.” In using the term “business strategy” which he did not coin but did popularize and likening corporate initiatives to military behavior, Schumpeter helped View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Kim B. Clark talked about the School's efforts in areas such as entrepreneurial studies, information technology, and the recruiting of more women students to the MBA Program. Day three's sessions offered a mix of business analysis and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
selling its assets to E*Trade in early 2010. “I never set out to be the failure example in an HBS case,” he says. “But I think everything we do is part of who we are as people and professionals. Cake helped me understand that I’m... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Christensen rhetorically intones, “How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that’s coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it’s intuitive, but it’s also systematic.” Those two qualities —... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
embracing diversity as an asset. The immediate priorities—partisan gerrymandering, voter participation, and campaign finances—took shape out of Leadership Now’s own data analysis and build on research from across Harvard, such as HBS... View Details