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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
jobs, only to struggle and become vulnerable to recruitment by extremist groups. “Everyone deserves a secure future,” Masha said. “To end insecurity, we must unlock the potential of agriculture as a job creation engine for millions of... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
identified for the school. Today, let me talk to you about 3Gs: Generosity, Grace, and Gratitude. The first story I’d like to share involves my grandfather, who was born at the beginning of the 20th century in India. My grandfather was an View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Corsi, and Elisa FarriHarvard Business School Case 711-044 ABB, a power and automation Swiss engineering company had to decide if they wanted to be even more integrated into the Chinese economy, ABB's biggest market, or if they should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
collections, other online stores (such as allofmp3.com), p2p file sharing networks, and other forms of piracy (like sharing between friends). A thriving p2p community acts as an engine for iPod sales. ITunes's 99 cents per song is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
he increasingly saw sports as a subset of the entertainment industry, and in 1983 he left the Giants to study at HBS to prepare for a career in that broader arena. After a summer internship with Columbia Pictures, Baer’s first post-HBS assignment was View Details
- June 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Emer Moloney
In Spring 2023, SECO CEO Massimo Mauri had the ambition to grow the €200 million revenue technology company to a €1 billion company by 2030. Founded in Italy in the 1970s, the family-owned company had gone through a period of growth and internationalization,... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Business Model; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Engineering; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Going Public; Strategic Planning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Italy; Europe; Germany; United States; China
Palepu, Krishna G., and Emer Moloney. "Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO." Harvard Business School Case 123-082, June 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
these companies. The traditional Xerox product—for instance, a copier—was designed so that it could be operated and serviced in almost any country in the world. This meant not only constraints on how the product was engineered but also... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
get people who had different backgrounds and interests than us to make a diverse group.” Shin, a Korean-born mechanical engineer who has worked in high-tech finance, and Behrens, a software engineer from... View Details
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’
all sorts of people in all sorts of situations helping to provide at least some degree of leadership. A project engineer might take some initiative. Because of his or her leadership, a small group of people is mobilized to find and... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
so that volunteers (often customers, but also others) can easily contribute content (opinions and ratings for Zagat guides), "stuff for sale" (eBay online marketplace), behavioral data (Google's search engine algorithm), and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
but 5G dreamers see the potential of this kind of innovation expanding exponentially and being the real engine of growth into the next industrial revolution. McKinsey’s Center for Advanced Connectivity has identified use cases across... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
think the young people will sit back and let capitalism work the way it has before. “I have great hope and faith we are going to address this issue I don’t see any other answer than to fix,” McCarthy said. “This university and others need to be major players in it.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
achieved through both the private and public sectors,” says Kyarisiima. “Enabling African businesses to access global markets and think strategically is where I want to play a role.” The path she took to pursue this goal has been circuitous. While studying civil View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
tutor in the ABC house in Williamstown, and as a senior, he gained custody of his younger sister, Laura, because his mother could no longer take care of her. The night before graduation, he married his college classmate, Michele Johnson. Both accepted positions with... View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
capital partnership or as a business unit? How should it be governed, and how should the investment committee function? Could mechanisms be developed that ensured the expertise of Saudi Aramco's famously conservative engineering resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
arrived on campus, it lost one of its members, a Nigerian engineer named Nkiru Amene, to an automobile accident. And in the last six weeks, you’ve lived through the Boston Marathon bombings and its aftermath, and you’ve grieved with us... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
report we did on the IT industry. I could make real connections between my personal experiences in the field and the research that went with it. It was a huge ‘aha’ moment.” Head of the Class “Research is the engine that drives HBS. It... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
veteran Valleyite Christina L. Darwall (MBA '75). For more than two decades, Darwall has been a player in the Valley's business community, working first for McKinsey & Co., where she became a principal, and then as senior vice president and chief financial officer of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young