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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
subscription-based website would quickly become the world’s largest genealogy company, allowing users to build and share their family trees, digitizing and indexing vast troves of genealogical data, ever increasing through the acquisition... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
his work. A paper he’d written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing the best stock exchange for the company to go... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Navigating rough waters
James ("Jamie") Dimon's (MBA 1982) role on Wall Street has been much analyzed during his 30-year career. Since taking charge of JPMorgan Chase in 2005, the company has become one of the nation's largest banks, with assets of $2.4... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
decisions without the benefit of hindsight? The authors offer a model for making better decisions, describing key red flags to watch for and detailing needed decision-making safeguards. They analyze past bad decisions in business,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
after graduating from HBS. "He struck a chord with me because of the way he could identify and analyze complex problems, then develop implementation plans to solve them." In 1960, Livingston and Fox founded Management Systems Corporation,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
Immersive Media “The single largest revenue stream for sports in North America is media rights. The sports industry is slowly adapting to new formats and platforms, which is having an immediate impact on the acquisition and retention of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration levels by View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
techniques to analyze that data and build an algorithm that successfully predicted job fit while minimizing bias—matching candidates to the right jobs based on their traits and aptitudes, for example, without discriminating on the basis... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
News. And as soon as he graduated in 1953, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and became an officer. Fast forward to 1959. Just out of Harvard Business School, Donaldson, 28, was rooming with Dan Lufkin (MBA ’57) in New York and working in the mergers and View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
movement, in the mid-1970s Robinson was a strategic financial manager for General Foods' (GF) domestic grocery products. After scanning a decade's worth of data and analyzing GF's investments in new product development, Robinson says he... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
and growing and sustaining the enterprise. "We can't teach people how to come up with ideas, but we can teach them how to analyze ideas already available to them," he explains. "We also teach that entrepreneurs must react quickly not only... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
"diversified the workplace and brought different ways of analyzing business and making decisions," and "more than any other event" the emergence of women in the workplace "has challenged the complacency of established management," others... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
analyzing why his drive and commitment are so strong. When pressed, however, Langford will point to his family tree. “I inherited from my father and grandfather a quiet but deep sense of the old codes around honesty, integrity, service to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
dividends and compounding matter; explains options-trading techniques that will be beneficial no matter what the market does; analyzes real-life examples of investing opportunities; and provides tips on how to construct a portfolio, value... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
northeast of Denver. When it was introduced in 1983, DairyComp made it possible for workers to track and analyze the overall health and fertility of every cow, to ensure each animal was being cared for in a way that maximized milk... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
have a career, and by the time I entered my freshman year of college I had decided to go to Wall Street." The HBS experience played a key role in shaping and focusing the early ambitions of these five classmates. "Educationally - that is, the thought process, methods... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
discomfort persisted, though Keen excelled in his work. A paper he'd written, using game theory to explore the liberalization of telecoms, was the ticket to his first job at Metropolitan Fiber Systems; an early project involved analyzing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
mind. The input of others, coupled with intuition, are key—it's important to listen to one's inner voice even when analyzing and drawing on the advice of others. Sonya Brown (MBA 2002), partner, Norwest Venture Partners, Palo Alto,... View Details