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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
many HBS graduates, to invest in new ways of solving old problems. The five social entrepreneurs featured below are a representative sample of the scores of alums who have dedicated themselves to creating or working for organizations that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
school started with the professor advising, “Don’t be that doctor that tries new things out. Let it be on the market for at least five years before you start prescribing it.” COVID broke through all of that. We sent over 2,000 low-oxygen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
released in January that detailed those gains was prefaced by the authors' blunt assessment: "The research shows that to date, high-performing charter schools are in the minority." So what will it take to make that minority a majority? "Charters have created avenues... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
3,600 when we arrived to up to north of 14,000 right now, and our sponsorship base is up about five times since we got here four short years ago. So you're talking about like a exponential increase in revenue and success. And that can... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
between the software giant and its closest challenger, IBM, while younger alumni put Microsoft well ahead of Big Blue.) It was IBM that first gave business "the ability to process information that has transformed the world," one... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with them regularly-originally eleven times a year-to make sure there were no surprises, either good or bad." In a matter of months, Elfers brought five prominent families into the fold, including inventor and financier Sherman Fairchild... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his own financial future. Rapaport... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
specially configured, nuclear-powered submarine, a “spook boat” that was engaged in covert operations. He found his naval service rewarding, but when his five years of active duty were up, it was time to move on. “I thought that being an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
one’s employees. That’s pretty good!” That classmate, David Karam, who operates 135 Wendy’s restaurant franchises in five states, says of Navasky, “Vic really ventured into the lion’s den at OPM — we were a pretty conservative bunch. But... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
news? Gulati: You know, if you told me five years ago, “Ranjay, you're going to write a book about purpose,” I would've said you're crazy. Not a chance. For me, purpose was like mission statements. You know, it’s wallpaper. And who... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
purchaser, rather than the generator, of roadway data. The early days required a lot of evangelism, but in the past five years, most governments have begun seeing how much more effective we can be.” Turning government agencies into... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of HBS alumni and faculty, and by the School itself as an institution. Excerpts from the book follow. The Big Bang Fifty years ago, Kiechel writes, corporate strategy did not even exist as a concept, let alone as the foundational element... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
expand the concept to other parts of the developing world," says company CEO Monique Maddy (MBA '93). Maddy, who will be a panelist at the Cape Town conference, plans to bring voicemail to 25 developing countries within the next five... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
five say they lost business to competitors who bribed. Low-level, low-cost bribery is frequently not illegal, nor are other, high-cost activities that may appear corrupting (e.g., money in politics); some people even defend small-scale... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the Middle East, Armenia, and the Philippines have buoyed sales and enabled Scharfman to double the size of his workforce to 100 over the last five years. “Our selling point is that we make ‘homemade,’ ethnically authentic cheeses, but... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
nonprofit background in their study group. She was mistaken. “I loved HBS,” she says. “It was so big and interesting, and I was really drawn to the case-study focus. I felt challenged academically and had the opportunity to engage with so... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
out on the big screen, he adds, those moments are often highly visual, with no lines of dialogue. Even then, however, Singer is putting words on the page to guide the filmmaking. “A script is a sales tool,” he says. “Movies are... View Details