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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
pleased with her dual role as a parent and a key player in getting this particular dot-com off to a running start. "I can't imagine a better place to understand the dynamics of the Internet," she says. "We've built a fairly complex site... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Starting Off on the Right Foot
with executives in transition: the tendency to assume that “everyone is just like me.” “You are not the person in the next office,” he emphasizes. “Most of us imagine that other people share our values and are motivated by the same forces... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 15 Nov 2021
- News
Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
death in 2019. “I tell my kids about their grandpa and I say, you can’t imagine how hard he worked for everything he had,” says Bishop. In creating value for his clients, Waite also created a better life for his greatest legacy, his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
says he has found "the perfect job." "I'm basically a big kid," explains the jovial executive as he demonstrates the latest push-me-pull-you gadgets that fill his office located several stories above the Fifth Avenue landmark. But it's more than the opportunity to let... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
they see three options: First, they could double down on the D2C side, which helps get the brand out there quickly, although it is subject to more competition and acquisition costs. The second option is to integrate with real estate companies. View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
and the organization's impact on its members' creativity. The book also includessuggestions for managers and leaders on how to boost creativity within their organizations. HBS Research Available on World Wide Web Pondering a business problem or management issue? View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
imagine Ted Levitt was one of them.” At Antioch, Levitt met Joan Levy, who was attracted to his straightforward manner. “I was working on a paper in study hall, and he suddenly appeared and asked if I wanted to go out Saturday night,” she... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
enterprise one day. I might start an NGO. I might start a nonprofit. I might start a company that’s focused on increasing social welfare.” That’s not by accident—it is in part a function of the creativity and the work of the SEI founders, and it has led to the creation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
destroy the radar installations that were the eyes of Iraq's armed forces. Engines roaring on the carrier's pitching and rolling deck, Baldwin's plane was hurled day and night into the sky by one of two steam-powered catapults. The result was a rate of acceleration... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
imagine Snyder in a far more genteel setting than this drab, brown, Depression-era room on the 13th floor of 100 Centre Street on the city’s Lower East Side. Yet no one who has followed Snyder’s remarkable legal career has any doubt about... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Scientific Discovery
reduce human disease and suffering influences his work as a health care economist and researcher. “I imagine a world where we have treatments, ideally cures, for diseases where right now we have nothing,” he says. “So the big questions... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
ethanol plant in an increasingly competitive, complex environment. “For the first time in history, the food and energy markets are converging,” says Reinhardt. “It’s hard to imagine two areas of greater importance, or with greater... View Details
- 04 Aug 2015
- News
Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
into our collective imagination to try to envision the future—and to give our institution the resources it will require to meet the challenges this future will bring,” said Dean Nohria. “As we do so, we need to think not only of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
materials and doesn’t require problematic materials (such as cobalt or nickel) common in other lithium-ion battery chemistries. I imagine it has great possibilities.” Fleetzero has embraced those possibilities—though not from the outset.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
or flood, or swarm—these terribly inaccurate, dehumanizing metaphors. If we started to think in individual stories, we might get much more imaginative about how we reshape the world. That’s something that I actually learned when Warren... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
from an information resource to a transaction platform in most content areas." The panelists agreed that while secure transactions can now be guaranteed, the Internet will need more compelling sites if it is to capture the imagination and... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
When I started Zynga, I realized that our generation has the opportunity to build the digital skyscrapers that may be around for the next century. These are Internet treasures because we can’t remember life before these services or View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
machine’ and transforming how people tell and experience stories; like Traveling While Black, which puts viewers in the first-person perspective of a Black American on a road trip across the country. “But looking forward, while nothing can beat real, face-to-face... View Details