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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
limited? Do you seek new avenues for expansion? Is the timing opportune to consider such a quest? Fenno includes a broad range of diversification options supported by numerous practical examples of companies of all sizes that have... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
it? Tech didn’t always have a gender diversity problem, at least not by the numbers. In the early days of the industry, when computers were the size of rooms, not wristwatches, women had a significant presence in the field of computer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
were several who looked up, saw me, and made eye contact. We exchanged nods. Feeling more comfortable than among those corporate stiffs in the other executive programs, I volunteered an observation: "It's a little late to be working on today's cases." To which I got... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
picture. But if they aren't able to grow, they'll probably be bought," notes Hackett. Ocean Energy's most recent merger was with Seagull Energy in 1999, and Hackett foresees more such activity in the future. "Within the next three years, I can envision Ocean Energy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
the largest segment of the world’s economy and also the largest health system on the planet. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
1992) Adams Street Partners Paralysis by Analysis The opportunity I most remember passing on was a seed round in Ola, the leading taxi/ride-sharing company in India. The mistake I made was that I sized the market statically and failed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Appliances division—his destination this morning—has piqued the interest of manufacturers worldwide. There is a long call about a potential new hire. The company, which Rogers cofounded in 2007, has almost doubled in size over the past... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
a nearly vacant airport (built in the former president’s home province with high-interest Chinese loans) stands as a reminder of the care needed in negotiating such deals. But he and others are philosophical. Due to Sri Lanka’s smaller View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
today is as a silage preservative, for the hay and alfalfa that cows and other animals eat over the winter months. And that will be one of the markets where we will first sell our formic acid, for sure, but that alone isn’t of sufficient interest, in terms of its View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
becoming increasingly apparent, the economics of the sector made fighting the virus a less-than-obvious business choice. The market size for a vaccine was unknown, and the paths for financing such research—which could have a price tag in... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
think we have this dynamic in which people voted for—many, many people voted for the lesser of two evils for them. Morrell: How has this project changed you, you and your opinions? Hessan: Honestly, Daniel, I grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. My backyard was the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into Dubai will be three times the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
leading figure in the nonprofit world. The first priority for the site is a memorial, all agree, but after that, there is much disagreement. "The size of the plot is not nearly as important as the nature and quality of what is built... View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
sorts of things. JH: Estes agreed to move across the street to a parcel of land the county acquired, where the county would build a new structure the same size as their former building. In exchange, the county received the former Estes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
regulators and the media. "Dark pools are necessary, because the structure of the public exchanges doesn't allow for large, institutional trades to adequately protect their orders when they display large size on the book," explains... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
stood at a crossroads. It was, by any measure, the preeminent business school in the world. Indisputably, it was the largest, in terms of MBA enrollment, size of faculty, endowment, and operating budget. Its research budget alone — some... View Details