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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
and CEO for ten years at National Industries for the Blind, a venerable nonprofit that he turned into a results-oriented, 21st-century enterprise that enhances economic opportunities and professional development for people who are blind.... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
houses and art dealers. “From a business school point of view, there's a contradiction where the art market seems illogical or strange because it turns on its head some of the rules of competition” "One of the things people try to do... View Details
- Portrait Project
Nelya Nikonova
about discovering and improving the world, I left a familiar life in Russia and set off alone to study in America with just $20. My adventure turned out to be the American dream, a quilt of colorful patches: from living on a farm in... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kelly Cheng
I am always running. Running to submit that HBS application at the eleventh hour. Racing to Aldrich for class. Sprinting to deliver my résumé to recruiters. Running along the Charles (for fun!). Early in the first year, before TOM turned... View Details
- Portrait Project
John Coleman
memorized those books cover-to-cover. But I couldn't read them. Like a lot of kids, I had learning disabilities that prevented my brain from making sense of the letters and words. So I'd lock myself in my room for hours on end, clenching my fists until my knuckles... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joseph Ferrer
It took a single shot to turn my entire world upside down. Fourth of July 2010. As fireworks lit up the sky above Lake Berryessa, fifty miles away, Big Brother fired a bullet through his brain. I still remember that night clear as day.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Emily Slota
Then I met Johiron. Johiron was emaciated, living in a shelter of palm leaves in Bangladesh, and surviving by begging for rice. I shadowed her as an intern for Grameen Bank's beggar lending program. And she shared how she'd used a micro-loan to buy a goat, which View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Show Me The Money — Or Not
Leschly sold the business for a reported $200 million in stock. “In the past fifteen years, roughly 60 percent of venture-backed companies have failed,” says HBS’s Bill Sahlman. “The fact that the judges might end up missing the one big winner or finding the one that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
experience with Motorola Mobility, Yarlagadda saw a safe and economical solution. Yarlagadda developed a solar-powered LED lantern that turns a few hours of sunlight into more than double the lighting power. “I priced my lanterns at $25... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
studying teamwork, Professor Amy Edmondson chanced upon a seeming paradox: Well-led teams appeared to make more mistakes than average teams. Could this be true? As it turns out, good teams, which value communication, report more errors.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
valuation. I looked at what they were doing and came up with an alternative - some say more robust - way to derive the formula that has since turned out to have very wide applicability. But at the time, the work only had direct... View Details
- Profile
Shaun Miller
challenges ahead as entire economies transition from "developing" to "developed." I am very much looking forward to working with talented colleagues to turn these challenges into opportunities and be a small part of... View Details
- Profile
Naiyya Saggi
since I felt an immediate kinship with this interpretation. Moreover, as a lawyer turned management consultant, I was looking to build a strong foundation to my business skills. An HBS education was important since it promised a quality... View Details
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Chris Wilson-Byrne
brand yourself, how what you say may be interpreted – how your words and actions affect power and the execution of plans." Last winter, Chris joined twenty-six other HBS students on the Australia trek. "I thought it would be a time to View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
entrepreneurs in this book broke with multiple conventions. Not surprisingly, they were often treated by contemporaries as crazy. It turns out that yesterday’s crazies are the historical origins of the sustainable world of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
Angeles River. “It’s been polluted and paved, but it’s why the Gabrielino Indians and Mexican Pobladores—who founded Los Angeles—chose the location they did. Now, in a fascinating turn of events, we are restoring the waterfront with parks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
want." Juszkiewicz, who turned around an ailing Oklahoma electronics manufacturer before performing similar magic at Gibson, has done more than just resuscitate the guitar maker. Through the purchase of other small instrument... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
centers. The intellectual capital generated by this research is transformed into programs and products offered in a competitive marketplace by Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing (HBP). The income generated by these twin business activities in View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
other birders might want to buy. Thayer hired a group of programmers to help him complete the project. “I thought I was about 90 percent done,” he recalls. “In hindsight, I was about 2 percent of the way there. It turned out that what... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
clear-cut. “A problem with megatrend predictions is that, even if they turn out to be generally accurate, they’re not managerially useful.” In the first month of social distancing in the United States, online sales at Walmart and Target... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes