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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
responsibilities include overseeing finances and operations, helping set and implement company strategy, fundraising/keeping investors updated, business development, legal work, interviewing/hiring/onboarding employees, and working... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
HBS was well-represented at Springboard 2000. Professor Myra Hart chaired the event and served on the steering committee with Angela Crispi (MBA '90), assistant dean and chief planning officer at the School. The following HBS alumnae were among the presenters: Barbara... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
NY Club’s Senior Program makes the connection It’s been a little over five years since Len Polaner (MBA 1954) and a small committee of like-minded alumni in the HBS Club of New York launched the first Seniors Program, a series of social... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
each day I was able to take what I’d learned from class and apply it to real situations,” she says. “It was beyond the Socratic method---like learning how to fight in the ring with your opponent in there with you.” Running a company in New York while going to school... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
reference for anyone committed to understanding, studying, and acting on the challenges facing leaders who are building inclusive organizations. VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas, William J. Abernathy Professor of Business View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
of talent—connections that are further refined by an AI engine that ensures an optimal fit of both technical and soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he observed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
should it start: at the grassroots with the student groups with which they are familiar, but which often have small budgets, or at the top with the university administration, where the company will face more bureaucratic hurdles but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
with her family to watch Ralph Bellamy in Man Against Crime. After graduating from Radcliffe, it seemed logical that she would go on to law school. First, however, she enrolled in the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration,... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
(and has since sold) a startup company that lets people connect over a home-cooked meal for a small group. Hosts post dinner details and interested guests can register to attend. “Building Bridges is based on that,” says Gupta. “But we... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration. “That makes it more likely that employees will be creative in their thinking and productive in their work. So you get this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
seriously rough spring, where I wondered if we were going to make it, we might end up overall better for the year than I’d planned back in February,” Ford says. Ranch Road Boots is just one example of the companies, both small and large,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well (Updated) By Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at HBS Harvard University Press, 2022 For too long, we’ve... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- News
Making a Difference in Health Care at HBS
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
developers that couldn’t play by the discounters’ strict rules had fewer sales channels. With all the fun that toys bring to kids, the business is characterized by copycats, empty piggy banks, and aggressive competition that might make a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Chimneys for a fee of $100,000. “We’re nothing more than glorified farmers here, but it’s a fun business, and there’s a little bit of glamour to it,” says Clay, who grew up in the small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. His family was in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
weeknights on www.shovio.com, with podcasts at www.radiochick.com. Tell us about life before RadioChick. I grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where my dad ran a construction-related business, which is probably how I got business in my... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
in his big leather chair and knew I wanted to be in business someday. Those visits entered my DNA.” Culture shock: “My HBS study group had a good laugh when we went grocery shopping together. I was absolutely overwhelmed by choosing from... View Details