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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

million largest ten-year increase Influence: High 60 1960 19 Baby boom tapers off Emigration from Asia and Latin America surges Influence: Medium-High 70 1970 19 Urban blight Rust Belt Influence: Medium-High 80 1980 19 Population migrates... View Details

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Alumni Bulletin - Alumni

Alumni Bulletin Next Level How Sarah Bond (MBA 2006) is taking on the culture—and the future success—of the gaming industry View Story Topics: Leadership-Leadership Style Leadership-General Career-Managing Careers Back to School Sharpen... View Details

09 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

relying on chance—on the currents of life—to guide us." Christensen also believes that certain common business principles are misguided and even dangerous. In the following excerpt, he explains why focusing View Details

15 Apr 2022
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How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

and staff in the Michigan College of Engineering program. Also, I attended an HBS 2+2 presentation on campus and thought it was a good fit after listening to the HBS representatives speak. It sounded like a low-risk argument with a very... View Details

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt conventional masculine... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales

way to handle assortment rotation strategy—even restaurants. “For example, some sushi restaurants serve unique sushi rolls on a conveyor belt that passes in front of customers,” Ferreira and Goh write in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Fashion

15 Mar 2024
HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

ability to meet the job requirements. For example, they can say during the final stages of an interview: “I need to let you know that in the next few years you’re going to be on the road 80 percent of the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

heralding the start of National Biotechnology Month, as January 2000 had been designated by the U.S. Senate. For biotech, in fact, the party had begun months earlier, when hundreds of millions of dollars had poured into promising companies that seemed closer than ever... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

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FAQs - Alumni

Executive Education reunion page – accessible via reunions.hbs.edu or the applicable "20-- Reunions" section below. Fees and key dates for cancelation, late fees, and refunds are listed on class / Executive Education reunion pages when... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

Roads Ventures (formerly Fidelity Growth Partners) in London, where he leads the European team and focuses on internet, software, and digital media. His investments include Innogames, Notonthehighstreet,... View Details

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

Reaching Your Potential. Kaplan continues his theme of self-directed assessment and improvement with his new book, to be released in early May, What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential. He offers a... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Ratings By: Lauren Cohen More Faculty News HBS Working Knowledge 12 Nov 2024 Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers Re: Paul A. Gompers 05 Nov 2024 Building the Road to... View Details

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

mainstream customers. Therefore, a key issue is who do you do business with initially who lets the venture start moving down the "right" product road map? Who do you do business with initially who can help you View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Now that scientists have mapped the human gene, can drug makers map a road to unlimited riches? For John Lechleiter, Executive Vice President of Eli Lilly and Company's Pharmaceutical Products and Corporate Development, there remain more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

could include providing updated road maps or allowing a patron to download MP3s before she hops on her next flight. He did not release revenue numbers. Also optimistic about Wi-Fi's future was Sky Dayton,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

added. Neeraj Agrawal, Senior Associate, Battery Ventures, said he's interested in enterprise software and data center automation, but not so keen on customer relations management or wireless. "The shine's off that apple." We're... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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