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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
being too dogmatic about how you define your sweet spot as an investor; and (2) seek companies that seem extraordinary on some dimension, even if it is unusual or seems deficient in others. Rob Go (MBA 2007) NextView Ventures For the Birds Here’s what I wrote in my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
months that included marrying Sarah Abugre, a teacher he met in Ghana; moving with her to the United States; and settling in at Soldiers Field. While pursuing concurrent MBA and MPA degrees at HBS and the Kennedy School, Murphy was delighted to find “so many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
Bluetooth in Android and Apple smartphones to determine proximity between people, and thus assess their potential exposure to the coronavirus. A random ID attached to a user’s phone number generates temporary, encrypted IDs. When users’ phones are within 30 feet of one... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
lessening of hostilities is achievable. One proposal that was raising hopes in mid-March was the Saudi initiative that offered Israel normalization of relations with Arab countries in exchange for Israel's withdrawal to its pre-1967... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
Ford, for the auto itself and his influence on the work force," while another noted Ford's "perfection of the use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line, concepts employed by essentially all of business today." Alfred P. Sloan of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
oil by 2050. Written by energy analyst and physicist Amory Lovins, the book noted the lack of efficiency of modern auto manufacturing. Rogers saw an opportunity. And after seeing firsthand the political and human consequences of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Non-fiction The Most Important Things I Know: 55 Handwritten Ideas from People Who Changed the World by Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) Lorne Adrain A best-of collection drawn from Adrain’s previous books, this edition contains notes from Buzz... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
and prepared to return home with a new perspective. The bonds forged during this experience remain, as the group stays in contact. Gower notes that the one-on-one coaching that he and the other participants received with an experienced... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young Abenaki and the daughter of an elder... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
in Michigan, Williams witnessed the satisfaction that his father and grandfather, both primary care physicians, got from helping others heal. This was his chance to feel that, too. "It was really an exposure to the kind of impact you could have in this business," View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
farmer-turned-salesman termed a “mean caling” [sic] in 1810 today is a respectable profession that employs roughly 12 percent of the U.S. workforce. Relying heavily on material from salesmen’s diaries and journal entries, sales ledgers, View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the first Sarofim-Rock incumbent. (Later, the Classes of 1954, 1960, and 1961 would also fund chairs in entrepreneurship.) Stevenson has completely reworked the Starting New Ventures course into today's elective course Entrepreneurial Management, writing well over one... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Advanced Management Program for senior executives (AMP), the International Senior Managers Program (now part of AMP), and the General Manager Program. Uyterhoeven’s late friend and colleague Professor Norman Berg once noted that “Hugo had... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
sending notes to folks begging them to speak. 1999I. Bingo was still going on in our section. We still had some of the cards at the reunion last year, and of course you won when you said the phrase that pays, usually based on something... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its actors. For example, in the latter part of the 19th century, the railroad, the telegraph, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
institutions, the authors note how business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage, to deal with such issues as reconciling different data sets and how to leverage economies of scale while remaining agile with data. To address... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
lack of market linkages are only a few of the problems. The story of women is an economic story. Investing in women creates a safer, prosperous, and more stable world, which is in everyone’s best interest.” Notes Lemmon, who has cowritten... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
managing very well. You did-- I believe-- have another psychotic break, is that correct? Switz: Yes, I went from HBS to McKinsey for three years and then, to GE Capital in a strategy role. And a couple of weeks after my wedding, had my second psychotic break. And I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details