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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
work on it. I have an answer for climate change.’ I was stunned and didn’t really believe him. But it turns out, he did know.” Wiviott was particularly puzzled as to why, if the solution was so simple, no one else was already doing it. He spent two years looking at the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
value just doesn’t happen. It’s often the case that hot venture sectors get too much money, that too much money chases too few deals and drives up prices. It’s being driven by the fact that the markets don’t exactly follow the way our... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
remarks, Porter noted two potential threats to America in its current role as the standard bearer of global commerce: U.S. capital markets could get too near-term oriented, and basic research might not receive sufficient investment. In a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
great products, great narratives, wherever they come from—new or old, big or small, corporate or homegrown. This openness of the millennials is having enormous impact, creating opportunities for startups, insurgents, and existing players to battle for View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
a $15 billion market cap and a $300 million revenue run rate per year, TIBCO is one of the fastest-growing software companies ever. Like any corporate executive, Ranadivé is concerned with the dollars-and-cents valuation of his company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
who might prefer guaranteed tax-free retirement income not subject to Wall Street market fluctuations. The Tanner Extraction by Frank X. Biasi (PMD 41, 1981) F.X. Biasi Falling in Love Backwards: An Unlikely Tale of Happily Ever After by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
exciting. There probably are only five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
will experience a crisis once every four to five years. That means that every CEO will likely face a crisis during his or her tenure. How they respond may be the most important thing they do during their entire tenure because the stock View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
noting that word of mouth is the organization’s best marketing tool. While the ups and downs of the economy pose a challenge, Silbert says that with careful planning, CWE has weathered the recent economic downturn well. The mother of two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
the relevant markets or levels where competition in health care should occur. How do we get from the current mess to a value-driven health-care system? The U.S. system can be reformed from the bottom up. One of the most hopeful things we... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
coincided with both the rise of the home computer, marketed mainly as a toy for boys, and the rise of the male tech geek. This stereotype of a so-called brogrammer played an important role in the development of the now male-dominated tech... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European market has also become more... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
Texas, with Dell computer. And during my years at Dell-- I was there about eight years-- I worked in marketing and e-commerce. I had a couple of overseas assignments but always loved exploring. And in fact, living overseas a couple of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
practice-first project. One of our principal motivations is to develop a set of loan products that will not only help people grow their livelihoods but also to do so in a manner that is profitable and therefore scalable. Roth: The second product that we’re working on... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
can make or break it all. “Plus, in a world where people want to work from home and other companies offer that option, it’s difficult for us to ignore the market and what people want,” Lerner says. On the other hand, the founders have a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
on standardized tests can be found here. Zoë Cullen studies the design of labor markets and the choices of employers and labor platforms that affect matters of public interest, such as pay transparency, pay inequality, and... View Details