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- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
felt drawn to the operator role and specifically wanted to work for a small, entrepreneurial company that aligned with his interests. Peters found that company in TB12 two months after graduation, and six weeks after his first child was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
manager, for example, is the son of his father’s first employee. “It used to be a true family business,” Hsu says, “and now it’s a business family.” Hsu returned to the farm in 2011, at first taking a leave... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
career shaped my view of climate change and the energy transition because it showed me that technology alone isn’t enough and that several stars must align to make real impact. It is critical to consider the business model, strategy, operations, and most importantly,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
into reading and exploring.” So perhaps it’s not surprising that, along with partner and co-CEO Michelle Crames (MBA ’03), Norton founded an LA-based company called Lean Forward Media, licensed the rights to the Choose series, and is now... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
wondering? Lin: I think everything has changed. I mean, I started in the film business right after HBS. Actually even before that. My summer internship between my first and second year at HBS was in the film... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
organization has a strong ethic that means it would never do anything that would injure a human being. Our objective was simply to get in the way and thus stop the killing of threatened and endangered species. In 2011 for the View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University's elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots will be mailed during the first week of April, and completed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
The first HBS New Venture Competition was held in 1997, in the era of PalmPilot and RealPlayer. And while the tech landscape has changed dramatically since then, many of the core lessons of the entrepreneurial experience—scaling, funding,... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
Q: The Obama administration has just come out with a white paper that proposes the elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and less government involvement in mortgage markets. What are the risks of taking this approach? A: That's a really important View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
forgotten sectionmate. Following are brief updates on some of the more far-flung members of the Class of 1977. Whether their life journeys have led them to distant parts of the globe, down untraditional career paths, or on quests for inner knowledge, their stories are... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
communication technology that works with the same cellular spectrums that telecommunications companies use. Since that first experiment four years ago, Project Loon has improved balloon steerability, connectivity, and stamina—the balloons... View Details
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Bharti Kher The Intermediary Family 2018 | About
Bourgeois. Her surrealistic works explore such themes as identity and gender, and her hybrid sculptures are often composed of half-female forms. As Kanu Agrawal has written, in Kher's works the “distinctions between humans and nature,... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
there this morning, and I don't know what to do with him." The attendant suggests that the man take the penguin to the zoo right away, and the man agrees that this is an excellent idea. But the next day, when the man returns to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
At first glance, not many would figure the bookish president and CEO of telecommunications carrier China Netcom Corporation for a revolutionary. But Edward Tian Suning is certainly making waves as head of one of the country’s new brand of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
the common theory behind improvement thinking, which is that you first go out and find a lot of issues," Tucker says. "You obviously can't address everything, so you pick one or two, fix them, and then explain why you weren't... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
do.” Never Say Never Van Caldenborgh’s own enjoyment of art began early. “When I was a boy, I bought something that could hang in my room,” he recalls. “When I was first married, I would bring home something that was the View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
requesting them. Still slated to lose their jobs, the workers built cars so efficiently that they earned the right to a new-car launch. And when the time came to shut the plant down, headquarters had to refuse: The employees at Wilmington... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
external affairs officer, she became the first person of color to join Noble’s leadership—even though 98 percent of the network’s students come from communities of color. Within the next few years, a perfect storm of challenges began to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
students in Herzlinger's health-care course. Participants began the first morning of the conference by discussing the current status of consumer empowerment, followed by a look at possible models for the future. While the consumer-driven... View Details
- 30 May 2013
- Blog Post
Launching into “career discovery” mode
Instead, we were encouraged to acclimate first to our courses, and to the social/extra-curricular life here. I think that’s the right approach; once the CPD events did finally begin last week, I felt very... View Details