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- 01 Jun 2004
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Books
the truth is that women-led enterprises grow more slowly and remain much smaller than those created by men. In 2000, for instance, American firms owned by women averaged $2.4 million in sales, compared with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
business strategy takes care of itself.” It’s a philosophy that has taken him from the research firm he founded at 26 to the chairmanship of Atlantic Media. When I grow up: “When I was 13 years old, I read... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
HBS Faculty Member Honored
Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility,” the coauthors propose a way for firms to contribute to social welfare without sacrificing corporate success. Porter was also honored (with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
HENDERSON: After two decades at MIT, she brings her interest in “green business” to HBS. Major technological shifts always pose a challenge to organizations, and Rebecca Henderson (MBA ’85, PhDBE ’88) has spent the last two decades exploring why some View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Next Cyber Threat? by Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988) Amacom Rothrock lays bare tactics used by hackers, vulnerabilities lurking in networks, and strategies not just for surviving attacks but also View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
uses state-of-the-art machines to fabricate component parts for a worldwide customer base. For the Kirlin Company, technologically advanced lighting designed and manufactured in the United States keeps the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can’t. In effect, these distorted environments burden local firms, create opportunities for institutional arbitrage... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
acres over the past 15 years. The firm is co-managed by David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996). Hourdequin is passionate about long-term land stewardship and believes that Lyme’s conservation strategies... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
competitive development of firms in 10 Latin American countries. After earning his degree and returning to INCAE, Condo taught competition and strategy while becoming involved in, and eventually leading, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
equity investment strategy is better executed and better aligns the firm with its investors and executive teams—a luxury afforded by its independence from other firms... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
(Illustration by Peter Arkle) What is really at stake when we talk about patents? Lauren Cohen: Innovation is the future of the US economy. Given that the value of firms is shifting toward intellectual property, if we don’t get patents... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
director of SG Barr Devlin, a New York firm that provides strategic and financial advice to clients in the electricity and gas industries. Barr, the foundation’s president and a poet in his own right, has published six volumes of verse... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland investment management firm, says Lyme Timber stands out among... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
provides a hands-on blueprint for adopting the core principles of e-culture: treat strategy as improvisational theater; nurture networks of partners; reconstruct organizations as online and offline... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Smart Choices Regarding your December cover story on Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97), CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, I find it interesting that in the many articles written about the firm, the principals never seem to acknowledge the fact that their early and greatest successes... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
explore how other industries operate, meet challenges, and plan for the future. “We had high expectations for this event, and it far exceeded them,” says Migicovsky. American Airlines senior executives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Illustrations by James Steinberg It’s been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with science-based View Details