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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm of mere mortals. Headlines can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
succeeding? "ActionAid International: Globalizing Governance, Localizing Accountability" (with Rachel Gordon). As a global NGO working in 45 countries, ActionAid International aims to eradicate poverty by... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
School in the fall of 2008, he had been a US Army captain serving in Iraq, but it wasn't until his second year at HBS that a chance conversation directed him to a Veterans Administration program that ultimately paid for his MBA. Motivated... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
spoke about. There’s another case of Canavan disease that has been recently worked on and has yet to go into clinical trial, although it is expected to by early next year. So you start to see these N=1 cases... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
other urban centers. Then in 1888, Julian Sprague, a young inventor who had worked with Thomas Edison, convinced the West End Street Railway Company of Boston to equip its city with streetcars powered by... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
The next time Professor Clay Christensen (MBA 1979) has a dilemma, he knows where he'll go for a solution: to HBS alumni. Christensen, Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever (MBA 1988), and alumni of the Building and Sustaining a Successful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
just HBS students, probably 90% of all graduates would think about going to work for GE in 1982. In 2021, that might be 50% just because, you know, it's an older company, it's a big company, there's more... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Cold Call Horror Stories
pretty funny. It was pretty funny. Katherine Randolph, 1993, Section H. My cold call story was being cold called by Michael Porter, the day that we did the Five Forces. Now as backstory, I got into Harvard Business School as the total... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
increase financial aid and community ties was right in line with our historic mission.” Salesianum’s donors agreed. Under Kennealey’s leadership, financial aid has grown by 200 percent. Last year, the school provided more than $1 million... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
a company. There’s this myth that if you want to go start a company, you just pitch on your HBS credentials and walk into a VC office and walk out with a huge check. That’s 1,000 percent not the case. Sierra and I have built this company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
impersonal forces and events. Indeed, in the field of business history, it was HBS professor Alfred Chandler who shifted the focus of scholars and others away from individual heroic entrepreneurs toward a concentrated examination of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Image by John Ritter In 2020, the number of women running Fortune 500 companies hit an all-time high: 37, or just 7.4 percent. Of those CEOs, only three (less than 1 percent) were women of color. In their new book, Glass Half Broken:... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
reopening of the new site in 2018, the chapel’s work has taken on a heightened poignancy. Estes held or prepared funeral services for George Floyd, Daunte Wright, and Jamar Clark, all killed by Minneapolis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
—Christian C. Johnson (MBA 1993) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: Rethinking the direction of your firm? Discover research by View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
disappointments? To learn more about some of the ramifications, pitfalls, and managerial issues associated with the M&A; process, the Bulletin asked a number of HBS faculty members to comment on the M&A; phenomenon from their several... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
decision to conduct Prieto didn’t pursue executive life to disown music. He’s just inquisitive by nature. “I’m still propelled more today by curiosity than anything else,” he says. It’s a family trait. His... View Details