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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
lot of our business involves selling the data we gather to governments and corporations.” In fact, much of what INRIX has achieved is classic disruption, taking over the roadway data gathering and analysis that previously was done by... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
investment (one made as managing director at Global Ventures), demonstrating that impact and profit aren't mutually exclusive. "I want founders and entrepreneurs to be wealth creators and invest in their communities and families," Enan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Institute for Sustainable Investing, that shows that 80 percent of individual investors in those next generations are interested in sustainable investments that can be customized to meet their interests and goals. 86 percent of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
delivering reams of sophisticated real-time financial information and analysis to customers through a unique computer terminal called a "Bloomberg." Currently, more than 65,000 "Bloombergs" - the company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
controversial IPO in 2007, raising $458 million. Many, including Nobel Peace Prize–winner Muhammad Yunus, have accused CB of making a profit at the expense of the poor, passing most of the earnings on to shareholders rather than lowering... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
and conducted customer research. “We learned that we needed to provide more than just services,” explains Rhyne, who added prestige cosmetics sales to the mix and wrote a solid business plan that was the only non–Internet-related finalist... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
battling it out over the issues of the day.” The Atlantic has been profitable for five years now, with advertising revenue up 40 percent over last year. For now, at least, all online content is free, including full articles from the print... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Washington. With Gratitude: Barker Steel and the People Who Made It Work by Robert B. Brack (OPM 2, 1977) ArchwayPublishing When Robert Brack returned to Barker Steel Co. (the business started by his grandfather in 1920) several years after college, the firm had one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health of MBA programs but on balance... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
way it’s been for more than 100 years. Cars today, he says, are essentially produced the same way Ford made the Model T. “But what if we made cars differently?” Rogers gathers speed. What if we assumed that people didn’t care about steel? What if we assumed that View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Anomalie, a custom wedding dress company, Leslie Voorhees and Calley Means (both MBA 2015) have connections to manufacturers in China as well as to people on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. They decided to use their network to... 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
- 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
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details