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Robert Duke Biederman

boardroom. I want to do things like that for my kids. When I was a little boy, my mom was a lawyer in private practice. She left work early and took me to the park for ice cream and a ride on the carousel. I want to build a company by... View Details

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

comes close to this. They are far from the finish line, but it sure is an amazing start!" The UIDAI project provides an interesting lesson for companies that are intent on reaching an enormous, diverse population, says Khanna, who... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

Launches DKMS, the cure blood cancer bank 1993 Becomes CEO, Coty Inc. 2001 Appointed Chairman, Coty Inc. 2006 Appointed Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev With entrepreneurial energy, Peter Harf has left a mark on consumer goods industries... View Details

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

around Earth Day festivals taking place around the world. But the biggest news isn't the millions of people partying in parks. It's the millions of dollars that banks are dedicating to solving environmental problems, joined by View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

competitive firms. August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows By: Soltes, Eugene F., David H. Solomon, and Denis Sosyura Abstract—We show that media coverage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

penalties to infringement," says Cohen. Patent trolls bank that, in some cases, companies will settle rather than pay the time and monetary costs of fighting infringement lawsuits. In others cases,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro During his 11 years in the Israeli Air Force, Shimon Elkabetz (MBA 2017) had several near-death experiences related to weather. Once he flew into a foggy cloud bank after the... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

Herbert J. Siegel

Siegel built the once, small boat maker into one of the largest and most powerful media holding companies. Acquiring two independent television stations with the Chris-Craft acquisition in 1968, Siegel sold the boat business in 1980 and... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

on track. Underpinning his advice with research and illustrating it with stories from others’ successes, Barnett lays out practical, step-by-step processes to help readers realize their goals. Money, Murder, and Madness: A Banking Life by... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on "hard" business issues and client interaction. But at View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

01 Sep 2009
News

Of Value and Values

trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

could choose what type of company we would work for. He encouraged us to pick a company whose values we'd be proud of. Where the new economy is going I don't think there is a new economy — it's the same... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

ownership and control of 3,694 firms in 22 Western European and East Asian countries during the period from 1996 to 2008, we find that the cost of debt financing is significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. 2 Because its new... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

Roughly one in 66 women has a better chance of leaving the hospital alive if their doctor is also a woman. Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer Psychological "interventions" companies can take to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Future Positive: How Companies Can Tap Into Employee Optimism to Navigate Tomorrow’s Workplace By: By: Joseph B. Fuller Joseph B. Fuller , , Judith Wallenstein Judith Wallenstein , , Manjari Raman Manjari Raman & & Alice... View Details

14 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

and the orchestrator. How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption Large companies can be easy targets for disruption, but there are steps that can keep them ahead of the innovation curve. Rule 1: Don't emulate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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William Donaldson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem Belo-Osagie United View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

Does it work? And for firms in countries that pursue that route: How do they make it work? "My research questions include: Were Latin American countries right to avoid share privatizations? What accounts for the apparent success of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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