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Alan Tu | MBA
Alan Tu Physics, Secondary in Statistics Dunster 2023 Cohort 4 "Innovation is all about viewing ordinary things through extraordinary lenses. When we gather for the first time as Tech Fellows, I hope we share our personal lenses and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the names associated with this surge... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
multinational enterprises who want to help reduce poverty, what would be some practical first steps you would suggest they take? A: Many big companies are now spending substantial amounts of time and money... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Nov 2020
- News
How Panera’s CEO Learned to Go Against the Grain
Photo courtesy of Panera Bread Photo courtesy of Panera Bread As the CEO of Panera Bread Co, Niren Chaudhary (AMP 191, 2016) was intent on finding ways to make sure the company’s workers weren’t left behind during the pandemic. The View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
phased clinical trials in sequence, with a pause between each for evaluation and planning. But when time is of the essence and money a secondary concern, as in the COVID-19 research, those phases overlap as the pace of the trials is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
for his congeniality and wit in addition to his professional achievements. "I would never have accomplished so much or had as much fun anywhere else. But I know that if I want to do all the other things I have planned, I've got to start on it now. At 55, the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
background: “Anyone who is an immigrant to the United States lacks a sense of entitlement or any sort of establishment status,” observes Molloy. “You tend to be more appreciative of people’s time and more likely to follow up and say thank... View Details
- 10 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
allowing me to spend time with students and coach them on their new ventures and emerging careers in "startup land." I then helped Professor Tom Eisenmann create a class for second year students who were either starting their... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
University's most influential professors and the author of numerous books and publications including On Competition (HBSP 1998) and co-author of Can Japan Compete? (Perseus Press, 2000), told the audience that it's time to look at inner... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
doing some selective hiring, particularly around design engineering and production control. Our hiring is up over last year; we are seeing about ten times as many applicants per job as we did in years past.” In terms of investment, over... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
companies doing that older, more entrenched organizations are not? Kotter: That's a big question we've written entire books about! Hamel: Let's look at it this way: Most companies' top managers will tell you that they have spent the bulk... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
power of the technology to disrupt the established order. Venture Capitalists have lined up to fund over 500 startups that use Generative AI. CEO’s of some of the leading AI companies have gone on record to say that this generation of AI... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
234,629 In 1971, T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA 1956) became CEO of Sealed Air Corporation, a fledgling New Jersey protective-packaging company. Under his leadership, Sealed Air soon became known for its quality products and technological innovation. By the View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Class Day & Commencement
mentorship, and leadership and the need to embrace change, master skills and strategy, and follow one’s passion. “In the 21st century,” Lafley concluded, “men and women who lead companies will need to be better leaders than any generation... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
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Charter Supporter
headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
run a variety of entrepreneurial endeavors. At age seven, when she accompanied her mother and father to the rice mill they ran, she spent her time asking the workers questions about their jobs. “I was very curious,” says Marcelo, who... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
video, and it completely democratized mobile data,” Menard observes. The jury is still out on 5G. Experts agree that it will bring massive improvements: speeds 100 times faster than 4G, and latency—or time... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
CEO of Silk Road Technologies. For the true entrepreneur, he continued, reality is the superior teacher; and school is an excuse to delay failure. Although their topic was "Post Boom Internet Opportunities," panelists spent most of the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne