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- 25 Apr 2016
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Trail Blazer
high-speed Internet service, in 1996. “We beat the telephone companies to market in six of seven regions,” says McMinn. He left to start another company, then returned to Covad in 2000 when the tech bubble... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
targets than others for computer criminals. But any business that uses the Internet is susceptible to indiscriminate attacks by worms and viruses, making the firm potentially liable should those attacking worms and viruses move on to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, government policy,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible changes in View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
breathtaking Internet IPOs - the company's stock went from $17 to $95.50 on its first day of trading. "It's the first pure-play journalism IPO," Kramer told USA Today (January 26, 1999), adding that the wonders of the Web are such that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
a towing company in Alabama, a medical services business in Saudi Arabia, a publishing company in Greece, a drilling firm in Canada, and a New York-based broadcasting company, to name a few. Hayes's talk on the second day of the Reunion, "A Global Perspective on New... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
Harvard Law School. The two moved to New York after graduation, and Thomas-Graham began her career at McKinsey, consulting on projects for retail and financial-services companies. In the 1990s, as the Internet juggernaut picked up speed,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in a stable View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
work includes papers on "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry" and "The Emerging Position of the Internet as an Advertising Medium." Silk joined the HBS faculty in 1989. Previously, he was the Schell Professor of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
less, attractive. Hardware and software are complements. So are hot dogs and mustard, cars and car loans, cable television and TV Guide, the Internet and high-capacity digital phone lines, catalogues and overnight delivery services - even... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
heart attack and fell backwards. Both survived, but the event instigated a crisis in care. “My parents had come to help us with child care, and I found myself worrying about both child and senior care,” she says. “I was working at an View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors have helped scale hundreds of hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Drawing on their experience, they present 50 clear, proven, and up-to-date scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
into the hectic new year, news broke of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. On January 11, 2020, the Chinese government posted the genetic sequence of what it had identified as a novel coronavirus. Moderna had its test,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
China with a gold rush mentality, without doing the thoughtful analysis and planning they would have done elsewhere," she observes. Franklin notes that she earned the goodwill of many Chinese business and government officials during her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
and I just didn't see it happening. So I have been investigating market trends ever since. And in fact, there's now overwhelming evidence suggesting that despite digital technology really catching on, we see demand moving more to the... View Details