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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
government agency bonds.) From America’s point of view, meanwhile, the best way of keeping the good times rolling in recent years has been to import cheap Chinese goods. Moreover, by outsourcing manufacturing to China, U.S. corporations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
and governance dimensions. Critics of the One Report concept maintain that it destroys shareholder value by diverting attention from short-term profit maximization. But Eccles and two colleagues found just the opposite. In a recent paper... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
spoken publicly before business school, I learned how to articulate a point of view in front of peers—and convince them of the case I was making,” he recalls. After graduating from HBS, McMinn landed in Silicon Valley at Intel, serving as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Image by John Weber Related Links Featured research: "Think Customers Hate Waiting? Not so Fast..." Read Director John Korn's blog Did you know? HBS alumni include... As an assistant professor at Columbia View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
are examined not only as economic entities but as businesses affecting almost all areas of our experience. The book explores the history and various aspects of the multinational, concluding with the principal developments of the 20th... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
flexibility in order to get enough strength for this book to happen. I still can't believe I did it. Farzad's book, Hotel Scarface, is due out in October. It is now available for pre-sale. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni
achievement and filled with anticipation, youthful spirits and energy will not be denied. Fittingly, it was brighter days and business leadership that Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) chose as the focus of his remarks. Dimon,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
tell the story of how they launched SmartPak, a rapidly growing company in the horse- and dog-supplements business that landed smack in the middle of the melamine-pet food scare last spring. Seeking Silent Voices. Successful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
for me is to create a large, fundamental institution on a global stage out of India. And I think we can do that. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited... View Details
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
negative jobs to be done, as well as positive jobs to be done. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret satellite imagery. But times have... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
South Africa. He noted that his country's aim is to have a stable, democratic government like those found in the United States and Europe, but he presented the tradeoffs that must be made before such a goal can be achieved. For instance,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
actually after 8:30pm after my son goes to sleep. I have this golden three, four hours that is just so uninterrupted. I was not at the office, I was not distracted, I was at home and I could just be by myself and when it's quiet at night even though people are sleeping... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Art by Craig Frazier Related Links Alumni New Venture Contest Opens Webinar series (ongoing) Entrepreneurship at HBS (video) Harvard Launches Innovation Incubator Why is it that even when smart, educated, well-networked people launch new... View Details