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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the growing role of intermediaries. Gompers and Lerner argue that the next decade is likely to see a fundamental transformation in the structure of the venture industry, as a relative handful of large, professionally managed venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
for the GLF, the board this year has organized around three committees, each with a variety of projects. Priority one for the Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Andy Waite (MBA ’93), is assisting with the successful launch of... View Details
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
activist Christopher Reeve, previously had worked in strategy, marketing, and management with several firms that were involved in IT, health care, and life sciences. “In the business world, a lot of what I did was getting people to work... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
like Watson regularly in the Reserves and has helped the Call of Duty Endowment—the largest private funder of employment for veterans—create a solid path forward for them. “Veterans tend to leave their first jobs after military service... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
video games are all examples of multisided markets, where firms need to get two or more distinct groups of customers on the same platform or place. Assistant Professor Andrei Hagiu discusses this new field of business research and why it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneur in Residence
Todd Krasnow (MBA ’83) has been named HBS entrepreneur in residence for 2006–07. A member of Staples’ original management team, Krasnow left the company in 1998 to cofound ZOOTS, an innovative dry-cleaning business where he now serves as chairman. Recently, Krasnow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
years of the program, in a public service or policy-based position; the second, between the third and fourth years, in a private sector or for-profit organization. “There is no academic program in the world that can match the theoretical,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
IT services company based in Secunderabad, India, Raju launched the country’s first emergency response service in his home state of Andhra Pradesh two years ago. The equivalent of dialing 911 for emergency... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
consumers prefer single songs over music “bundles.” The result? It is time for the industry to rethink its products and prices, writes Associate Professor Anita Elberse. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6312.html. India Transformed? Insights from the View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
Staff Directory Ana Elena Azpúrua HBS Working Knowledge Ana plays a key role in bringing faculty research to a broader audience of business professionals through compelling maps, charts, and other forms of visual storytelling. Before... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
a generation. Once reviled as villains operating on the fringes of the market, they are now powerful forces at work in the mainstream of business. Activist investing gained legitimacy and influence thanks in part to the development of a support system from View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Baker Library Gets New Executive Director
at HBS after serving as director of Microsoft’s Knowledge Network Group, where she led a global organization of 100 people delivering information and knowledge-based products and services. She has previously headed information services in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBA Career Office Wins Award
The MBA Career & Professional Develop-ment office has received the 2009 IBM Excellence in Career Services Award. The award “recognizes academic career centers that provide outstanding commitment and... View Details
- Career Coach
Kristin Brennan
candidates, and moving across the boundaries of strategy consulting or professional services roles v. operating roles with direct line authority. Prior to her current role, Kristin worked in leadership... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
FIELD 2: Global Intelligence
a new concept for a product or service for global partner organizations around the world. In January, they spent a week in the region conducting market research and meeting with the organization to refine their ideas before making a final... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
litigations on firm strategy. Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time This study of ultrasound test orders in hospital emergency departments shows that,... View Details
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- 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 coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted... View Details