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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
Andresen Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who led the discussion. In the old model, he said, economies of scale regulated success and performers had to be big to spread out high fixed costs. Now, as a result of the way we... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006
competitiveness of individual firms. Harvard Business School and Harvard University jointly created the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness in 2001. It is led by Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at HBS and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
force in our world, whether we like it or not. So, what are we going to do with that driving force? I also wanted my career to be grounded in the true rigor of business, and the marriage of business rigor with positive impact in the world. These guiding lights View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
cooperatively owned grocery store. In my work, I primarily organized our outreach efforts with several foundations and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and strategized ways for us to successfully secure both grant funding and low-interest loans.... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Profile
Jeff Bussgang
and financial services firm that is helping more than 12 million families save over $20 billion for college. Since January 2003, he has been a partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm that Jeff helped start. While at Flybridge, Jeff... View Details
- Web
Adding Corporate Social Responsibility to the Mix | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
at Time Inc. While undertaking a preliminary assessment of Time’s global CSR activities, Levy-Odom realized that she wanted to have a clearer sense of CSR best practices and also to make connections with others working in the field. This View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
pressure? “We try to emphasize that this is not easy,” says Beshears, who led the course with Senior Lecturer Andy Wasynczuk. “A big part of achieving some degree of success is having the flexibility to change your mind. That’s important... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
since 2009. Those efforts, however, have been slowed by strong opposition from EMC, one of the state’s largest tech companies. That led Johnson to consider an innovative approach to changing noncompetes. With advice from a team of labor... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners. Later, with the support of Sealed Air and his wife, Joan, a former English professor, he pledged to fund a college education for students in a sixth-grade class in Paterson, New Jersey. "Dermot Dunphy... View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases," says Schrader, who led Vaxess to another win at HBS's 2013 New Venture Competition this spring. Compare that number to the 1.8 million annual global deaths from HIV and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
business as he rescued Big Blue, then a stumbling mainframe-computer giant, and rebuilt it into a powerful but nimble information-technology company. Judith R. Haberkorn (AMP 111, 1992) The retired president for consumer sales and services at Verizon Communications,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
Frock in an ASMS classroom; "Students learn by doing." Courtesy Kim Frock Students at the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, don’t diagram what a circuit board looks like on a piece of paper; they wire one themselves. View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
looked at the company’s leadership ranks, she saw few women who could serve as role models and mentors. So when she was first assigned to a team led by another woman, the experience was revelatory. “I could see myself in that more senior... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
business rigor with positive impact in the world. These guiding lights led me to Harvard Business School. I kept hearing that the mission of HBS was to create leaders that make a positive difference in the world. I was eager to work with... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
to talk to them—that he needed to address the community as if he were the President of the United States. His daughter's plea led him to record a podcast that did just that, urging the Black community to both keep up the fight and take... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
opportunities, particularly in China, he said, were immeasurable. On the Ground The distinctive realities of doing business in China and East Asia were discussed at two packed panel discussions. On the second day of the conference, MBA Program Chair Professor Steven C.... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
festival in the region. And that then, led to a conversation I had with Richard Branson, to start the Extreme Tech Challenge, which is a worldwide startup competition, where we have entrants, really, from like 100 countries in the world... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
P. Donham, a graduate of Harvard Law School who later practiced law and had taught corporate finance at the business school. His background led him to see strong parallels between the two professions. In a 1922 article, he observed that... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
Drug Administration is proposing the first federal oversight of the product. The very fact users could control the amount of nicotine they ingested led to worry that e-cigarettes would cause smokers to take in more nicotine, rather than... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
crisis, in contrast, fared less satisfactorily abroad. Second, multinationals that engaged in activities with vertical production linkages or stronger financial constraints exhibited particularly better responses compared to local firms. Finally, being part of a larger... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace