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01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

manage technology in their subsequent careers. BULLETIN: How would you assess the state of the School today? CLARK: This really is a great time to be part of the Harvard Business School. There is a spirit of innovation and View Details

13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

runner-up status in the 2013 Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition at HBS. “I didn’t expect to be a social entrepreneur when I came to HBS, but our team viewed the problem as a ticking time bomb,” says Rewane. “We started... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library

rope, and coarse fabrics known as osnaburgs. In 1847, twenty-year-old Emanuel Lehman joined Henry, and they named their business H. Lehman & Bro. With the arrival of the youngest brother, twenty-year-old Mayer Lehman in 1850, the View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course via the OpenIDEO platform to write “The Capitalist’s Dilemma,” published in Harvard Business Review Illustration by Theispot “It’s a steamy summer night in New... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/Partner_Persist_20130115.pdf Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case By: Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and Stephan Aier... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

August 1998 (Revised October 2002)
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Harbus Foundation, The

By: James E. Austin and Linda Carrigan

Describes the challenges faced by a group of HBS students as they create a foundation. Given surplus funds generated by the student-run newspaper, The Harbus leadership decides to find a meaningful use for the excess cash. Profiles both the entrepreneurial process used... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Asset Management; Financial Institutions; Investment Portfolio; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Problems and Challenges; Social Enterprise; Valuation; Financial Services Industry

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01 Oct 2000
News

Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

keep HBS at the forefront in the use of technology to teach management skills and will help support cutting-edge research and course development. The gift will also help facilitate collaboration between the FAS and the Business School. At... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Inside MTV’s Global Fame

numbering in the billions and making MTV one of the most powerful global brands. In his fascinating account, What Makes Business Rock: Building the World’s Largest Global Networks (Wiley), Roedy relives deal-making in 175 countries, from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Ari Medoff

Ari Medoff's business career began in films, while he was an undergraduate at Duke. "I was CFlix.com's first employee," he says. Founded by a Duke student several years ahead of Ari, CFlix was a video media View Details

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

the enterprise and repeatedly tried short-term fixes, all while depending too heavily on financial earnings, rather than innovation. Boeing: The world leader in aviation for 100 years, Boeing lost sight of its purpose to produce safe,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Kartik Sahni

Kartik is a joint degree student at HBS & HKS. He has extensive experience in impact investing, venture capital, public policy and non-profit/philanthropy sectors. He has worked in general management (as Chief of Staff of a $400mn impact investment in India), View Details

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

"Luxury, Technology, Integration"

The above title was my answer when I was asked earlier this fall to sum up my experience in Milan in three words, working as an MBA intern within the office of the CEO of the YOOX Net-A-Porter (YNAP) Group. In a world where technology and digital are imperative in... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

01 Jun 2010
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One Student’s HBS Journey

Wallace Christina Wallace (MBA ’10) applied to business schools knowing that the best financial aid offer would determine where she earned an MBA. Her job as a rehearsal associate at the Metropolitan Opera came with many benefits, but a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2015
News

Clubs: Capital Improvements

committee stacked with former cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and other Washington notables—would be a much larger affair, one with the goal of raising the profile of the DC business community, often overshadowed by the federal... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2015
News

Cracking Conferences

Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000) came to New York in 1994 for a marketing internship with Enterprise Ireland, a government agency promoting the country’s products in the United States. She had $200 in her pocket and no family connections on the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

priorities as they emerge. Looking ahead, Yoonjin anticipates taking elective courses in her second year, like Public Entrepreneurship and Business at the Base of the Pyramid, to dive more deeply into public/private opportunities. “I’m... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

commitment to building businesses made for a good fit," Gregory explains. "Dartmouth, Duke, and MIT also joined us, followed eventually by Princeton, Stanford, and Yale." Among the enterprises that Greylock... View Details

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Inessa Lurye

says. "We're in a $12 trillion business moving from paper to digital processes—many firms are merging or going out of business. The Building and Sustaining Successful Enterprises course, which was based... View Details

August 2024 (Revised February 2025)
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Novo Nordisk Foundation

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau

In 2024, Novo Nordisk A/S was one of the most profitable firms in the world, thanks largely to just two GLP-1-based drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. Unusually, this incredibly profitable firm was controlled not by individual private shareholders, but by a non-profit... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Diabetes; Obesity; Foundation; Non-profit Management; Profit; Corporate Governance; Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Expansion; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Denmark; Europe

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January 2024 (Revised April 2024)
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Target Malaria: Editing Mosquitoes through Gene Drives

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

Target Malaria, a non-profit research consortium, is exploring the application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to combat malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its approach uses gene drives, a revolutionary tool, to suppress the population of malaria-carrying... View Details