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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
to a conceptual distinction that has proven both popular and enduring. Eventually business schools began responding to the clarion call for developing leaders, not managers. In the early 1990s, for example, Harvard Business School formally shifted its focus from its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Timberland acquired the GoLite brand, including trademarks, but licenses it back to the Boulder company. “GoLite got to cash out on the most valuable part of its business, the brand,” Smith says. “It’s a great marriage between a consumer brand and a technical product,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
guarantees, to define and limit them. That’s the purpose of this whole proposal, not to put systemic firms at a competitive disadvantage but rather to prevent them from imposing undue costs on the rest of the financial system.” Devil’s in the Details The View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
and was on track to generate $75 million in revenue. Kraus then cofounded and sold the high-end travel website Spire. Now Kraus is examining the place of women entrepreneurs as a scholar. During her time at HBS—as a member of the faculty... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all how View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
titled "Groupthink," "Debate and criticism do not inhibit ideas but, rather, stimulate them." These ladies will help you generate ideas to navigate both the best and the worst events in the arc of your career and life. Sue Schooner (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
around the world are generating different models that work in different ecosystems, but that can teach us, readily in the Valley as well, how to build and scale and succeed for different styles of innovation. Morrell: Alex offers the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
those fears with some of these kind of analytical approaches but I find, generally speaking, people want to sensationalize things and they want the scary stuff to emerge. So, even if you counter it, we don't get quoted as much in those... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
of supporters, from former activists to current Warsaw government officials to the next generation of Polish architects and urban planners—is about more than the past. It is a lesson for the future, to show peoples seeking their freedom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
supplements correct dosages for each horse. You can probably picture what happened next: the hasty return trip to SmartPak’s offices and the tears and bad feelings that come from cutting short a visit to the Magic Kingdom when you have three children under the age of... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
about what happened. I remember in 2010, I was on my way to a school called the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. I was driving there from Savannah, Georgia, and I got to St. Louis. And I stopped for... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
this activity in established institutions. At HBS, he racked the exhaust pipes on his old, turquoise-blue Ford pickup with the express purpose of setting off car alarms in the Soldiers Field Park garage. He used game theory in a classroom negotiation exercise with... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
entrepreneur; your Airbnb host is an entrepreneur; your Etsy craftsperson is an entrepreneur. Because of technology, individuals don’t need to work for a company, and the cost of entry is just plain easier. “Number two: Everything at the core of our society is getting... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Ukraine. Iwashko, who manages private equity funds, discusses how he has spent the last 25 years watching the country’s economy overcome everything from organized crime to systematic corruption. “Today, Ukraine has a thriving economy built on the backs of a new View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
generating ideas. Prince: Not necessarily good ideas. Zatlyn: But ideas, and that is a huge skill. A lot of people don’t have that skill and so I always liked to engage with him. And a lot of them were good but not particularly ones that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
footsteps of five generations of brewmaster forebears and starting a microbrewery that would make beer in small batches and with plenty of hops and malt for a distinctive body and taste. In the mid-1980s, Koch revived his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
exploding. "Over the next 20 years, we have to generate 80 million jobs," Masha says. "That's the population of Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy." But endemic corruption has scared off many foreign companies. "Nigeria is a... View Details