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- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
and capabilities, providing resources, skills and cash to help the firm get back on its feet (and at a time when the firm was worth more to a buyer). Last year, my money was on Microsoft. Windows phone has never lived up to expectations,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
the taking of calculated risks based on limited information. Washington must understand that the many benefits private equity provides by facilitating economic growth are unlikely to be sustained if the heavy hand of government intrudes,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
That’s the Kaphar effect. It’s also a picture of vertical integration, as Price, the MBA of the partnership, explains: The manufacturing is the creativity. Four apartments provide affordable housing for artists and generate income while... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
employers to provide essential benefits, including health care after retirement. That meant we didn’t have to face much public responsibility to do that. The American Dream may have to be reinvented, perhaps with a bit more public... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
system smart enough to ask humans questions, instead of just providing probabilistic answers. “The technology is absolutely moving in that direction,” says Kenny. “Every day. We’re extrapolating from what we know into what we don’t know.”... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
provided an opportunity to consolidate student services previously scattered across campus. MBA administrative offices moved into the top floor, and the lower level included a casual-dining grill, the Harvard Coop, IT support services, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
those with no experience get ready (thank heavens for the early investments we made in HBX, now HBS Online). Our IT team did wonders to get everyone the technology and connectivity to teach, learn, and work from home. Staff across the School volunteered to train as... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
able to bridge science and business,” says HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “We aim to provide graduates of this new program with tools to understand the most modern biomedical science issues, as well as knowledge of scientific methodologies and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
employees at every level of the organization," says Makihara, who instituted an open-door policy to make good on what was then a revolutionary idea among Japanese executives. Emphasizing the importance of adopting new technologies, he named himself chief information... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
professionals to implement them, companies were eager to embrace an end-to-end service delivery partner providing open, nonproprietary solutions that simultaneously cut costs and increased efficiency. "We found that customers were more... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
here. But a principal effect of that trend as it relates to radical change in the industry is that, from a policy or social perspective, there’s going to have to be either incredible sacrifice or economic incentive/transfer payments View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Enan reported was a constant, providing the "courage shield," she says, for whatever was happening at the time. "When I think about what makes a strong team, I think about that experience," she says. "No one ever spoke about culture; it... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
have driven the company’s expansion into women’s health and a host of programs for the elderly population, from nursing and rehab programs to palliative home care—each pioneering new approaches to age-old challenges. On the Mediva side, the consulting practice View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
much time apart, and, two, this is not the life that we had imagined for ourselves in terms of having a really good partnership and thinking about starting a family,” Gordon says. Gordon’s deep network allows her to provide clients with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
talk to their peers about recent developments in this burgeoning industry. As copresident of this year's Communications, Media, & Computing Ventures Club, he helped stage Cyberposium '96, a gathering of high-tech gurus and corporate leaders at the Business School in... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
company’s director of marketing and is now brand manager for a large, national product line. He’s interested in either starting or acquiring his own company when the opportunity presents itself; the family company will provide the capital... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
called eVolution with venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and buyout specialists Texas Pacific Group. This new partnership focuses on traditional corporations that are interested in spinning off new Internet businesses. And we've launched BainNet, an alliance of... 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 "communities"; and attract and retain... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
masterminded a unique way to provide Singapore's oil refineries and chemical companies with the land they desperately needed to keep growing. By joining seven of Singapore's southern islands with landfill to form what is now known as... View Details