Sailing - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

actually end up building a business that is not as robust because you were building the ship as you were sailing it. Morrell: We’ll explore that idea in the next episode: What can Silicon Valley learn from frontier markets—in Indonesia,... View Details

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

of a sudden, at the age of 19, he and his college buddies sail away to a place they could not possibly have known much about. In retrospect, that still seems inexplicable, except in the sense that a rebellious 19-year-old is apt to do... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

1935-36 in Alumni Notes Summer 1942 William H. Lipsitt, M.B.A. 1939, Lieutenant (jg) in the Supply Corps of the Navy, arrived safely "somewhere in Australia" after sailing for two months with four other officers in a small, open boat... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

venture fund, you made an Option B choice at the time of the sale. And if you sold your stake in December 1999 and then sailed around the world or began work on a series of nonprofit ventures, you made an Option C choice at the time you... View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

reflections of capitalism; the rise of accounting and accountability; the origins of industrial policy in the West; and the ways in which merchants and bankers thought about risk, particularly the deadly risk of international trade. Just to take one example: Roughly 2... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

enabled ships to sail the open sea rather than hug the coast. To solve that problem, governments responded by enacting laws of the sea. It then became clear to me that it was almost impossible to understand the Internet by thinking of it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Mar 2017
News

A Summit Higher Than Everest

deck of the Tai Ping Yang as the freighter sailed out of New York Harbor bound for Shanghai. He was joined in what he would later call an “impractical” and “romantic” adventure by Gene Lamb, a veteran explorer who carried the symbolic... View Details

Keywords: April White; mountain; climb; climbing; adventure

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

developed around the channel sales program would need to be addressed. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/netapp/an/511058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-403 Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group-Sailing Downwind North View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

hit," notes Joe O'Donnell, a former varsity catcher at Harvard College and now chairman and CEO of Boston Concessions Group, Inc. "At the time, the ball just barely cleared the fence, but 25 years later you remember it sailing out of the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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