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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
departments. “The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,” says Light. “So intellectually, though this...
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- 22 Oct 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art
Through three decades of international business travel as founder and president of the Netherlands-based Caldic Chemie, BV, Joop van Caldenborgh (AMP 71, 1975) also pursued his lifelong passion for collecting modern and contemporary...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
when I was growing up in the 1990s. There’s been a real change in philosophy, which entrepreneurship can build on. The Branson Centre is an accelerator operating out of Kingston that helps entrepreneurs structure their View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
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Ask the Expert: On the Fly
(above: photo by Getty Images/Patrick Foto) A mathematics major, Don Carty (MBA 1971) has always seen the airline business as a huge puzzle, with the equation involving inventory and pricing, cruising allocations, weather, and holiday...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success
The idea of human cloning is controversial, but cloning a successful business concept remains as desirable as ever. For HBS assistant professor Steven J. Spear, this pursuit led him to Toyota, whose perennial leadership in quality...
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- 25 Sep 2008
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Been There, Seen That
the appropriate market structure for raising capital, but of the role of government and regulatory oversight in managing those structures.” And here is another panelist, HBS professor Joe Bower: “To what extent here at HBS are we...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
ability? These and other projects are in the early research phase, Price notes. He emphasizes that the initiative's collaborative structure draws on the talents of HBS faculty and includes assistance from other experts in the field. "We...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup
For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Executive Action
A rendering of the new Chao Center (Illustration by Goody Clancy) Harvard Business School broke ground for the construction of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center—on April 24. The Chao Center, a...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Baker’s back
Historical Collections and faculty interaction surround the north, river-facing lobby, and the new south entrance is home to The Exchange, a gathering place offering real-time news and business information. Faculty offices line the upper...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: The Money of Invention
by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (Harvard Business School Press ) Did venture capital cause the explosion in innovation in the last thirty years, or did innovation jump-start venture capital investing? This is just one of many questions...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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East to West
“The case was very appealing because the CEO’s goal was to create a governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed like a way to understand the...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
says, but “when policies are shifting all the time, it’s not helpful.” Geoffrey Jones, “Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy,” in Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century, ed. Hartmut...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word
to consider several key questions: Should KBRA enter this business, which despite the economic crisis is still dominated by the Big Three? Should it focus its business on a single sector such as structured...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Just Doing His Job
Malaysia’s Petronas Towers may be among the tallest structures in the world, but the man chiefly responsible for building them prefers to keep a low profile. Describing Tatparanandam Ananda Krishnan (MBA ’64) as an individual who “guards...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements
the Executive Education Program, including The CEO Transition Workshop, Managing Business Transformation, Leading Professional Services Firms, and Strategic Human Resource Management. His research on mid- and late-life transitions in...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Wide Angle
coordinated, wide-ranging, government-led response, which sadly is not what we’re seeing right now. But as the timing of this extends, we're going to have to rely on structural remedies—things like income support, continued payments to...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Research Brief: Profit with Purpose—and Middle Management
directive from executives and a road map for achieving it, employees feel confident that their specific actions will be recognized and rewarded. It’s this bridge that middle managers create—translating a top-level mandate into everyday View Details
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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New Horizons
The Harvard Center Shanghai occupies the entire fifth floor of the HSBC Tower, right of center. The building is a recent addition to the panoramic Pudong district skyline, noted for the futuristic architectural flourishes of signature View Details