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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
thinking, translating his insights into practice and correcting the most common misconceptions about them. Guide to Managing Growth: Turning Success into Even Bigger Success by Rupert Merson (PMD 71, 1996) (Wiley) Successful growth View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
facts of a situation and then how to analyze and make a decision. But even more important, this process requires you to think really hard. In my career, nothing has been more important than that." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Integrity and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
two clear, easy-to-read pie charts—one dedicated to human capital and professional services, the other to programs, supplies, and vendor services. Nothing remarkable. But they demonstrated a level of rigor and detail that had been missing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Disruption doesn’t create growth; instead, growth creates disruption. Growth is always hard, and disruptive growth is exponentially harder. It requires companies to make tough decisions in the face of daunting uncertainties: Should we bet... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
fine, but many of them also haven’t studied the region. When I look at some of the articles being published by major news outlets, you can tell they didn’t have an editor who really understood the issues. We’re creating the human capital... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
is to show students as many components of the industry as possible, as well as the management and entrepreneurial skills required to be effective in this field. "We cover everything from small-scale startups on Beacon Hill or Moscow to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
To reach, and return from, Iraq requires several mid-air refuelings. We use classic strike tactics to blind the enemy. Loaded with six thousand pounds of bombs, we take out their radar, communications, command headquarters, and missile... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of society rather than the narrowly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
advertising savvy are but two of the myriad skills that are required of today's museum manager. Traditionally, museums have been run by academics who worked their way through the curatorial ranks, but more and more museum trustees are... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
billions into vaccine efforts. By midsummer, Moderna, for instance, had received $955 million in US government funding; it raised an additional $1.3 billion on the capital market. That kind of money buys speed: In normal times, a vaccine... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
surprises. Mainstream economics, however, hides from uncertainty, banishing it to the mystical world of unknown unknowns or reducing it to mechanistic calculation. Its textbooks ignore everyday problems that lack demonstrably correct solutions. But resolute responses... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the insistence of the venture capital community, former Intel executive Mike Markkula joined the team. “So in that way,” Sahlman continues, “it’s different from real estate. It’s about, how do I create experiments that reveal to me, and... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
consulting, he founded Warsaw-based investment firm Metropolitan Capital Solutions in 2009. Now, with his back to the former Communist headquarters, Maj strides across a newly established public plaza. Embedded in the sidewalk at his feet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
had long wanted to wear a uniform in this war, but at almost 6 feet tall and not even 140 pounds, he didn’t meet the physical standards set by the armed services. When the 31-year-old registered for the draft in October 1940, his chest circumference measured several... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
committed to the idea of developing new understanding, deeper knowledge, and intellectual capital about business around the world," he stated. Along with increased support for global research, another visible manifestation of that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
must be adapted to the special needs of different types of healthcare organizations. Essays for my Father: A Legacy of Passion, Politics, and Patriotism in Small-Town America by Richard Muti (MBA 1971) (Richard Muti) Capital: Adventures in PR, from Yugoslavia to... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government and investor capital in just the last few years. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which... View Details