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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me about Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss by Tyra Banks (OPM 42, 2012) and Carolyn London TarcherPerigree Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn, share what they’ve learned... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
killing, and then bury the competition, right? Well, half right. Competitors aren't the whole picture. Providing complementary products - or making sure they are available - is the other half of the game. A complement to one View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock," Hess added, "business is called on to play a larger role in providing social good. And we need the public to understand how important Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
right to buy into privately held firms was limited to high-net-worth individuals or other businesses. Federal regulators have now opened up a world between the two categories, creating a new asset class in which “non-accredited investors” can purchase small View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
support, establishing contacts with leading CEOs in the region, and sharing expertise that comes from living and working in the Asian environment on a daily basis.” Under McFarlan’s guidance, seven new cases were prepared for the Tsinghua... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.” “Teaming up is a mindset,” Stewart observes in a recent Bloomberg article. “We have a lot of experts in our community, but we need to share... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
Capital Tech Opportunities who invests in B2B software companies in the late-stage growth phase. Hopkins cites an example that was brought to life in a case discussion attended by the protagonist, a founder of a company who had placed his View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
communication. We’ve had a telestroke program for a number of years, where doctors in an emergency room can consult with our neurologists, share images, and get a stroke neurologist’s opinion about how to handle a patient in that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
their market? Did they miss important, competitive developments? “There’s all too often an assumption with technological products that people like you should sit back and let the technical folks do it,” says MacCormack, pointing out an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the firm, which is the subject of his popular MBA elective Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise.... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
large internal market and easy access to raw materials and fuel. But America's real edge lay in its genius for mass production and not labor-intensive work, which could be done more cheaply overseas. Since imported glass was typically... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
assigned a product or service to turn into a business, and then the rest was up to them. That included raising money to start the business, creating a marketing plan, and developing some of the company’s operations, like banking, sales... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
from the book follow. An Affront to Public Morality The beauty business began modestly with the sale of products widely deemed an affront to public morality. Today, consumers around the world spend $330 billion a year on fragrances,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
maintains minimal inventory, delivering finished units in a matter of days. Dell's direct-access model makes extensive use of computer linkups and information shared among customers, suppliers, and the company itself in order to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
experience they’d had at HBS. A few members of the original team, including van Bever, Hsieh, and Brown, decided to expand its scope to a full-term offering this year. “At HBS, faith and spirituality are not typically part of the curriculum,” says Poonam Daga Sacheti... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
launch last fall with “two ex-Microsoft guys.” All three are pilots, and fittingly, their first product is a flight-planning software program called Voyager. “It’s for general aviation pilots — private pilots and commercial charter... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy... View Details