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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
graduates emerge ill-educated, Bistany counters); Investing money in education and schools raises quality (when what's important is how many books a student reads, not how big the library is); and Learning by memorizing is bad (rote... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
certain circumstance and what actions promise great peril. The book shows managers how to use theory to answer critical questions involved in creating new growth businesses, such as whose investment capital will help my company succeed,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
realize that unless senior management, right up to the CEO, is involved in some way, this issue won’t get the attention and investment it deserves throughout the company.” Hackers can make trouble for a company without even penetrating... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Drawing on generous contributions from the search fund community as well as his own experience, he sheds light on how this community converted $1.4 billion of investments into $8.7 billion, with $1.8 billion going to the entrepreneurs.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
nearly 350 in just two years, and a recent investment of $110 million by TPG Growth, Evolent is keeping that momentum going. "Working in health care right now is like joining Google in 1999," says Blackley. "We're on the cusp of a... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
thinking about what GoLite might have been. Last year, they invested personal capital, as well as money raised through a direct public offering, in a new direct-to-consumer outdoor company called My Trail. “It’s GoLite, without the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
year for research on existing lines, even as other countries are investing many times that amount. Says Cynthia Fisher (MBA ’90), president and CEO of BioMed 20/20 Technologies, a biotech and medical information products firm, “The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
influence HBS and HSPH curricula. Chu and Bloom, for instance, lead an HBS-HSPH elective on social-impact investment that includes the Antares field studies, cotaught with HBS associate professor Shawn Cole and HBS professor Kash Rangan.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
private equity then exploring the evidence on performance of private equity investments at both the portfolio company level and fund level, documenting the creation of economic value. The book then presents a set of actionable frameworks... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
know, you’re in a moment where like, okay, everybody is pursuing a certain career, where they’re, in our time, it was maybe investment banking and consulting. Today, I don’t know. But there are trends and if you pursue what everybody else... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
it all was refreshing.” How did it feel to get the investment from Sir Charles and Lori Greiner? Smith: “Dream. Come. True. We found out the night before that Charles Barkley was the guest Shark, and we said, if he and Lori went in on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. To cover expenses and support her parents she worked first as a Mary Kay sales rep-resentative, then as an investment analyst, running to the office after classes and staying well into... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
satisfaction creates greater customer retention. Workplace and career satisfaction improve employee attitudes, performance, and retention, reducing absenteeism, turnover, and the need for repeating costly investments in worker training."... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
commitment to academics would see him earn a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester and eventually HBS. After HBS, Ed would begin a storied investment career, eventually becoming CEO of Ferman Selz. And it was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
traditional sports are taking notice: Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), owner of the New England Patriots football team, recently announced an investment in a new esports team that will compete in the first-person shooter game Overwatch. “What... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
that have been invested into it. We’re aiming to be that difference. It’s inspiring to get out of bed every morning, to say what we’re trying to do is literally change the world, or this part of it. That’s quite inspiring. Morrell: How... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details