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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
leaders answer such questions as: Why change? What to change? How to change? And when to change? Central Park Trees and Landscapes: A Guide to New York City's Masterpiece by Edward S. Barnard (PMD 32) and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
an MBA. It had to do with output to the client of a new computer system in New York City. The day after Columbus Day, no one was in the office, and I looked at the reports that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
challenges in creative ways: "The Robin Hood Foundation" (with Catherine Ross). Created by hedge fund and investment managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations in New View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic Services, a nimble View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
range of businesses around the world, from Chinese Internet giant Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted and from the New York Times to the Economist. Drawing on these stories and on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
on the site. Those who vote for the winning item of the day receive credits and rewards. The business launched last September as the pair began their second year at HBS; graduation has brought an end to juggling classes and visits to New... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Reunions to Remember
Once again the early days of June brought hundreds of alumni back to Soldiers Field to reconnect with familiar faces, make some new friends, get a close-up view of the newest developments on campus, and catch up on the latest research by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
A few years after he retired as Dean we hosted a breakfast for him in New York City. It was probably 1997. He told a story about supporting a friend in need by traveling via car nearly eight hours on a... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Their answers suggest that clean power will take off over the next decade or so, but hydrocarbon fuels will remain dominant. The E & E Club teamed up with the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) to host the receptions—one in New... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers' race, gender, age, or other aspects of appearance. In this paper, we test for racial discrimination against landlords in the online rental marketplace Airbnb.com. Using a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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leadership at HBS. Read the essay Andrew F. Brimmer "I do feel that the economic plight of blacks is a serious matter. So I bring the same economist's tool kit to that subject as other economists bring to examine other national economic problems." Andrew F. Brimmer –... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
to be one of the first market segments to come back in a big way, and there’s already a big demand for Key West—in fact, it has higher room rates on average than New York City. You sound pretty optimistic... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
Builders Association, 350,000 carriages were sold in New York City alone between 1894 and 1899 compared to 125 cars. The idea that the automobile would someday replace the horse and carriage was, he... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
the planet who are living in extreme poverty. You can’t have stability in the world with such widespread deprivation. Where do you get most of your news about the world? I read the Financial Times and scan the View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
classes and visits to New York (where FashionStake is based). "The contest worked as a forcing mechanism for us," Gulati says. "Without the discipline of deadlines and deliverables we might have flamed out... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
hit me like a ton of bricks. It was a headline in the New York Times that said "Shareholder value was no longer everything, top CEOs say." That was the headline. It was 8/19/19. I refer to that day in the... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
cases that makes them so enduring?" Saki, Sizzle, Sayonara Case: Benihana of Tokyo Written: 1972 Copies Sold: 269,584 Touring the United States in 1959 with his Japanese university wrestling team, twenty-year-old Hiroaki ("Rocky") Aoki fell in love with... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons