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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Action Plan: Fired Up
fundamental purpose that’s meaningful both to customers and employees,” he says. “You strive to be the best version of your customers.” That goal was relatively easy to attain in his previous role as CEO of the trendsetting headphone... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
to the needs of the state’s sustainable tech sector. “When I set up Aravaipa Ventures, I broke every law of what was done commonly by VCs at the time,” Fenwick-Smith says. The fund was focused narrowly both topically, on climate change,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
schools, have benefited from setting up internal management development programs and facilities in order to maintain a qualified pool of employees. Replicating U.S. business practices in other countries is a very complex challenge,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers, and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. Oui, La... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
goals we are chasing are the correct ones.” In I Moved Your Cheese, a few maze-busting mice teach us that many of the presumed constraints (mazes) we face are self-imposed and that we underestimate our ability to alter our circumstances,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
United States. Our goal is to make fact-first news extremely easy to consume, by publishing a daily digest that covers the day’s most important stories stated factually, with any relevant context. BA: Media businesses in general are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
do large-scale engineering without knowing the laws of physics. As a set of ideas, strategy sought to remedy all these deficiencies. And the effort was spearheaded by, of all people, management consultants — Bruce Henderson and his ilk... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Kathleen McGinn, senior associate dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting. A key goal of the program is to increase the amount and depth of research conducted at HBS on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We hope to attract to this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
election reform issues—primaries, gerrymandering, mail-in ballots. We had such a good response, we decided to do it every month,” says Kaplan. “With the coming election in a pandemic, there’s an expected surge in mail-in ballots. That View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
experience never left Chertavian, who wrote his HBS application essay about starting a school to close what he saw as an “opportunity divide.” After HBS, Chertavian set that goal aside to cofound a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
developers greater access to existing quantum computers. To oversimplify, think of it as a translation tool that allows software to run on a variety of quantum computers, optimized for each. “These machines are going to have a very limited View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
point, noting that impact investments “still represent only 0.02 percent of the $210 trillion in global financial markets.” How to open the floodgates, then? How can impact investing go mainstream? First of all, says Chorengel, you have to show people results. “The... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
legislative bills and trying to pass a budget; we are now in an emergency-management situation,” he recalls. Difficult as that time was, it set Simmons up as the perfect candidate for his next role. In April 2021, after Cardona was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
lost some of their charm when set down on paper. She eventually left her tech job at Udacity to focus on building a way to capture them. “I wanted to find a way to make it easy for my parents to share these stories, and I wanted it to be... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
background in air and water filtration at SpaceX and Brita, so we knew we could come up with something better.” What are your short- and long-term goals for the company? Taylor Wiegele: “Long term, we want to dominate the odor... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
Actually, we like to see them fail as often and as early as possible," Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke said with a wink as he watched students in his elective MBA course Managing Product Development (MPD) set up their display booths... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
because of its stellar location: Cape Town, South Africa. More than four hundred delegates came from dozens of countries, with close to half bringing partners or family members for whom a special program of events had been set up. The... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
started—and seeing the demographics be so skewed—it felt like such an important place to spend my time,” says Howard. In this conversation with the Bulletin, Howard talks about that mission’s endgame—what can happen when a more diverse View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young