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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
the founder of the modern VC industry, but there’s been remarkably little written about him,” says Josh Lerner, a professor at HBS who specializes in the study of private equity. “He is the first person who basically ran an institutional... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions to this institutional... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
justify the higher Asian wages." Asian companies will need to move beyond OEM production and adopt real strategies involving unique ways of competing, Porter asserted. They will have to compete in more sophisticated ways, and the national business environment must... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
masculinity and how such conflation disadvantages women in the workplace. On the two platforms in this study, management had implemented some innovative approaches to leadership development to reduce unsafe behaviors stereotypically... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
million people—to make donations to efforts to organizations like Turkey’s AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Authority), Red Crescent of Kazakhstan, and the National Volunteer Network. “Kaspi.kz’s mission is to improve people’s lives by developing View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
they’re not hiding. They’re at major institutions around the country—some of them at historically black colleges but others at state universities. DARDEN: Roy and I went on our first recruitment trip to mainly white schools—Stanford, UC... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
capacity to deliver digital video on the desktop, Windows 3.1 operating systems were scrapped for Windows 95, and twenty new SUN server workstations were added to support the newly installed systems. "We're looking at the best practice of other View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
respond. When the system is decentralized, there’s no owner, and often not even a central legal institution wrapped around it. If the system somehow decided to take half of my bitcoin holdings and give them to you, there’s nothing I could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
forces, differentiation—Professor Porter’s conceptual frameworks are the foundation for understanding how companies achieve and sustain competitive success. A senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS,... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
be key, as will engaging the entire school personally (educate yourself), interpersonally (work across differences), and institutionally (work together for structural change). “In some ways, I think DEI work needs to be top-down, but I also want folks at every level of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
all attendees and then mingles with them afterward. Out of 103 participants interviewed, 56 reported finding significant leads as a result of the forum; 19 of those leads resulted in business deals. "We found this type of gathering to be an effective View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
confidence that we can draw on all our past strengths and look forward to a remarkable future. I grew up in Bombay, as it was called then, Mumbai in India, came to the United States after having done my undergraduate degree in India and my chartered accountancy and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
institutional bets on them. He was an investor in other people's ideas, and the support he gave was often indispensable." Thus, they have dubbed him an "intellectual venture capitalist." The editors point out that it is no coincidence... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
hundred or so funds investing in these “base-of-the-pyramid” markets, she believes only a handful can show investors a real return on investment. “That is not a sufficient data set for a mainstream institutional investor. It’s not... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
as well as organizations and institutions around the globe, including in his home country of Canada. McArthur’s association with HBS began in 1957 when he arrived on campus from Vancouver. His standout performance in the MBA Program led... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
explains how and why a financial panic unfolds, with lessons that can be applied to our understanding of present-day financial and monetary systems. The book details the reasons why, despite today’s stronger monetary regime and risk-mitigation tools, our modern View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists... View Details