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- 16 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process
for the interview process to mirror that. Or if there will be periods of consistent pace followed by times of deadline driven pressure, that should be clearly explained. Candidates know themselves and their work styles and want to set... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor
have to work together to invest in HBS startups and support these companies as they progress through the Rock Accelerator. As part of the program, Jeff also generously extends his time and network to help... View Details
Hugh J. Chisholm
Chisholm was widely considered to be the most powerful man of his time in the American pulp and paper industry. He was the primary founder of International Paper Company that brought together 30 pulp and... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
or poorly at the time of their appointment, but "especially when the company had had poor prior performance." But he worries about the "cognitive and emotional baggage" that insiders... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
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Finding Historical Financial Statements with Compustat | Baker Library
area select Complete Financial Statements (XLS) Step One: Date Range Select desired start and end years Step Two: Search Click Code lookup ; a new window will open Type company name, e.g. Xerox , into search box; hit Lookup codes Copy and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
many times in the past, it will prosper by creating a distinctly Japanese approach. If you have read my other work, you know that I believe that the U.S. is far from perfect. For example, many U.S. companies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Getting New Ideas off the Ground
the New York Times Company. We took the company public, and ultimately merged it with EarthLink. “After that, I got a call from a friend who was working with the brother of John Kerry. Kerry was, at the... View Details
Howard L. Clark
advertising campaign “Do you know me?” and later, “Don’t leave home without it.” By the time Clark retired in 1977, the company had grown to include over 650 offices in more than 100 countries, with over 8... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 12 Sep 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Startups Are Raking in VC Funds
New data shows that HBS alumni are leading the b-school pack in raising venture capital to fund their startups, according to an article on the website Business Because. According to data compiled by PitchBook, 1,069 HBS MBAs have founded 961 View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American Business from the Pages of the New... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details
John F. Queeny
When base-chemical shipments stopped coming from Germany during World War I, Queeny kept his company afloat by transforming it into its own raw materials producer. By the time of his death, Monsanto had... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- Career Coach
Michelle Antonio
Wharton School, both as Director of MBA Career Management and the industry advisor covering the Consulting and Public Interest sectors, 4 years as an MBA Recruiting Director at Deloitte Consulting, and time as a strategy consultant at... View Details
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In the News - Entrepreneurship
Co-Founding A Company That Sold For $300 Million, And Now a Best-Seller Re: Jeff Bussgang 04 Jun 2025 The Action Catalyst Think Big, Buy Small, with Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff Re: Richard Ruback & Royce Yudkoff 27 May 2025 New York... View Details
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IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
opportunity for both impact and profit are underappreciated. The Africa IFC will highlight the many opportunities and potential challenges for students interested in business on the continent. Students will visit and work with companies... View Details
Henry R. Luce
Luce created a publishing empire. He launched the weekly Time in 1923, which was followed by the introduction of Fortune in 1930, Life in 1936, and Sports Illustrated in 1954. Luce also presided over a vast communications empire, which... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
Dolphin Comport: To Wilson, the bowl of this piece (c. 1929) "suggests a body in an endless pirouette." Photo Courtesy of Charlie Wilson When Charlie Wilson (MBA 1967) was a small boy, he lived for a time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with... View Details
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Georges F. Doriot
brought clarity and introduced a system. He recognized several key elements in the process. Real companies take time to build. Young companies need several rounds of... View Details
- 12 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)
describe startups tackling some of the most pressing and complex challenges of our time. Many of these companies face technical hurdles or market risks that require significant time and resources to... View Details
Jon Staff
Consumer brand building - Mission/vision/values development and adherence - Co-founder and early stage team building - DTC marketing - Go-to-market strategies - Hospitality startups - Real estate businesses - Investor management - Navigating starting a View Details