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- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
which actions support progress—such as setting clear goals, providing sufficient time and resources, and offering recognition—and which have the opposite effect. Even small wins can boost inner work life tremendously. On the flip side,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
land of the giants. Intel’s market capitalization at the end of 1980 was $1.7 billion. IBM’s was $39.6 billion. IBM manufactured most of its microelectronics in-house. Never in its history had it gone to an outside vendor for such a key... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
Reinhart: Deriving success in derivative markets. thredUP, a children’s clothing swap Web site cofounded by HBS classmates James Reinhart and Chris Homer (MBA ’09), expanded into toys last fall, just in time for the holidays. Shoppers had... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
effective care teams and good management of local operations (clinical microsystems). Clinicians influence both, and local clinician leaders will have several key tasks. Publisher's link: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1301814 2006 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
Slayton (MBA 1990) discussing the situation he faced in 1997 when he took over as president and CEO of a small company called MySoftware. The firm was a struggling Silicon Valley business that developed and sold software for a variety of small-business needs such as... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
close to first, second, and third cousins. It was very common to have family gatherings of 50+. Moving to the U.S. in 2010 was tough, but because I had attended boarding school, I was ready for the new challenge. What brought you to HBS? Kevin: I was at an inflection... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today... View Details
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
which to examine the mentoring literature (Thomas & Alderfer, 1989). Now, more than ever, is a timely moment in our history to examine the influence of race in the extant literature on an important topic such as mentoring. Foreman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
families, he launched projects collectively worth more than 500 million and helped create Spain's first real estate investment trust. He took over at Metrovacesa in 2016, just as the domestic market was taking off. By the View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
being a spine surgeon. And while I’ve probably been a little more business-minded than the average doctor, it was actually my time at HBS that helped me realize an interest in entrepreneurship. But in general, the MBA helps me be a more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
support the clubs’ administrative functions. Substantial progress was made, and we look forward to announcing significant improvements in these areas in the coming weeks. The Communications Committee, chaired by Byron Carlock (MBA ’88), spent the majority of its View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Phillips and Nelson: Book reviews are their business. Courtesy Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips Three years after launching Bookmarks magazine, a bimonthly guide to new books, Allison Nelson and Jon Phillips (both MBA ’95) are still refining their View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
owe their life's blood to PARC—Adobe, SynOptics, VLSI, and 3Com, for example—together recorded a market value last year five or six times greater than that of mother Xerox. "By focusing too narrowly on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
beings, we experience time quite differently from the institutions we create, populate, and lead. Even when we want to do the right thing, there are bosses, clients, and markets overtly or subliminally... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- Profile
Minal Mehta
When did you and your cofounders come up with the idea of a Bollywood-inspired dance and fitness program? "I grew up splitting my time between swimming pools and dance studios. When I wasn't choreographing synchronized swimming... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- Profile
Zihan Lin
the hands-on, boy-stuff of the mechanical with the mission of medicine." By the time Zi entered the graduate stage of his education, he had a firm focus "on two concentrations: design methodology and medical devices." In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
tax incentives), they will work on the set for months at a time and follow through on marketing once the film is complete. However, there are often no guarantees that a project will make it to the big... View Details