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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
History By Neil Senturia and Barbara Bry (MBA 1976) Waterside Productions I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in American history. This real-life story includes a multitude... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
government, and civil society all focus on the poor as producers. The main emphasis must be, he says, on creating employment opportunities for the poor and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring basic public services. What the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
then used their findings to make some concrete changes. One key finding: Usage of the public toilet was heavily skewed with respect to gender. PSA: We've been collecting gender segregated data in all the public toilets and we realized... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
War II plane crash sites, were searching for remnants of a transport plane in Zavattarello, Italy. The team, Gruppo Ricercatori Aerei Caduti or GRAC, was set up several years ago to help collect these sorts of relics. Piero Ricci (GMP... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
switch to CD format, sales picked up considerably as customers rushed out to replace their vinyl record collections with the same music reissued on the new technology. Now, explains Zelnick, the CD boom has played itself out. "The CD... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
products — and such cheerleading is literally paying off. One company that has certainly ridden — and perhaps created — the wave of increased interest in the market is LeapFrog, the developer of the LeapPad system, a computerized device... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
health research grants. We support the AKC Companion Animal Recovery, an organization that focuses on providing lost-dog recovery services by maintaining a database for animals equipped with an ID microchip. The AKC also has a world-class View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
in 1979, had a budget of only $2 million, and many of Barry's peers questioned her decision to leave one of the world's most prestigious institutions to join a much smaller player in the global economy. "On day one I had to order my own... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
design; 27 proven “plays” from the UXReactor playbook to put concepts into practice, and game planning examples to execute at different levels of an organization. A comprehensive and practical book for business leaders, design leaders, View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Culture by Bozidar Novak (OPM 43, 2013) (Brodschneider & Kotnik) A collection of short essays centered on the topic of Maribor, Slovenia, a city of about 100,000 that was named one of the two European capitals of culture for 2012. The... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
young professionals) select pieces from curated collections on the company’s website—think Scandinavian, mid-century modern, or industrial looks. Within a week, a white-glove team delivers preassembled pieces and arranges the room. When... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
to compete with Sprite. So why don't we come up with something called Crystal Pepsi?" And that happened. So it's these decisions to launch products that you think will achieve something but you really don't know why you're doing it. It's... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
campus, rediscovering old haunts, the friends enter into an animated discussion. Their conversation offers keen insights into how each individual has a unique brand, which must be as thoughtfully cultivated as product brands. Personal... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
who have decades of experience in both organic and conventional farming, directly manage the farmland they convert. The organization uses a profit-sharing model, giving all participants––partners, operators, and management alike––a stake in the profitability of each... View Details