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- 30 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie
over 40 years ago, have been in government and business in Africa throughout that time and have been engaged with other HBS alumni who returned to Africa. In my SIP, I distil my experiences and learnings over the years and share with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group piqued his curiosity about how such View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
recruitment, it was a challenge. Opportunities narrowed as companies cut down on recruitment. There were the lucky ones who got their job of choice, but there were many others who struggled to find one, had opportunities rescinded, or... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
the company since 1922. A piece in Fortune notes that the appointment “could trigger a series of acquisitions by the Swiss food giant to further its ambitions in nutrition and medical foods.” Schneider comes to the foodmaker from... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
African-Americans, to help them to manage their money,” she recalls. “These were people like Oprah— people who are on the Forbes list of wealthiest African-Americans. “I got to know some of them, and at the time we did this there were a... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
local companies was dictated by Fenwick-Smith’s preferred working style and his convictions: He wanted lots of face time with young leaders and the burgeoning companies... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details
- Profile
Malcolm Little
funds collapsed. "I watched waves of lay-offs as the company tried to right itself. Even the best performers were vulnerable. But I noticed that an MBA provided some job security." A time to look... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
many diversified media companies viewed entry into cable as a hedge: they believed that their newspaper readership and broadcasting audiences might decline over time due to competition with cable, and wanted... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
the survey at alumni.hbs.edu/skydecksurvey. Beyond the survey, if you ever want to drop us a note, you can find us at skydeck@hbs.edu. We’d love to hear from you. Ok, now for today’s show. Cloudflare is a web performance and security View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
compelled to focus on protective legal processes and box-checking exercises rather than on formulating company strategy, identifying risks, and evaluating executive performance. The increasing time... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
(www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu) was developed to provide business professionals with critical information and insight into timely management topics and areas that reflect a rapidly changing landscape. Updated regularly, the site... View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
profitable, if not the most profitable, steel companies in the world, and is acquiring from a position of strength amid a boom in the world steel market. This will buy it valuable experimenting time and... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
Main Wilson: It's a wonderful world. A slide show of World Wonders Photos copyright Andrew Main Wilson—World of Wonders Like so many businessmen, Andrew Main Wilson (AMP 156, 1999) is readying himself for a trip abroad, this time to... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Exploring new opportunities at HBS
Clubs are just starting to get underway, and I’m excited to get involved in lots of them and start attending events. I’m also hoping to study a wide range of companies, industries, and business problems in my time here. I’m not looking to... View Details
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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
shepherded by the company and what it will take to move the world toward a sustainable future. We were fortunate to meet a few other team members we networked with and learned from as well. As our time there... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
In an effort to survive in the new economy, some-industrial giants have tried to chart an evolutionary path that combines their industrial core with new post-industrial businesses. The companies from our study that are most clearly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
achievements and volunteer roles. The result is a hiring process that is more fair, and one that helps companies access talent that they are excited about. “For too long, we’ve depended on degrees as proxies for competence and capability.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new... View Details