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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
interviewed had not relaxed the standards, and in fact they said that, if anything, they had held women entrepreneurs to a higher standard because they did not want to be viewed as a weak link or an easy way into the firm. They did think... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
Oberholzer-Gee saw in TrapGuard, being marketed for the first time to plumbers in Philadelphia, an interesting way to better understand the link between trust and diffusion of new products. With Victor Calanog, a doctoral student at the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
strictly online. Who reads newspapers? Old guys. So this is an industry that is being dramatically transformed. “The reality for the advertising industry is that the old model is broken.” As broadband enables new forms of entertainment and new View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
help Black unicorns ‘team up’ and find innovative ways to support one another as they climb, what research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.” “Teaming up is a mindset,” Stewart observes... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last week. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of the East Coast of the United States, I flipped to the CNN Climate Town Hall, where Democratic... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
government intervention " Gerald Nanninga was less willing to accept the notion of "too big to succeed," setting forth several ways of scaling up a company to minimize the burden of size on management. As he put it, "... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
referring to the pricey, private tutoring services available to those who can afford the fees. “Because the College Board is working with us in a very deep way to create not just a free tool, but the best thing that also happens to be... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Pens Down
the typos (but they still admitted me)." —Roger E. Cole (MBA 1985) "Working on the essays for three months was a part-time job to get them right. It was before personal computers, so a lot of retyping!" —Kathleen Fitzsimmons (MBA 1981) It was an easy View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Class of 2004 Gives Fellowship
course to be particularly relevant to the work that she plans to continue upon graduation. “Raising money for a fellowship made sense,” says John Sanders (MBA ’04), an alumni rep for Section J. “It’s a way to give to the School that... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Discovery Channel. As media interest in this odd endeavor increased, a public relations firm joined the growing team, too. And Vescovo needed to know where to dive. He contacted Dr. Alan Jamieson, a deep-oceans expert at Newcastle University in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
both the law boards and the business boards, and did way better on the business boards. That flat out surprised me. I barely knew the difference between a balance sheet and a profit-and-loss statement when I entered HBS. It was my MBA... View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
"These peak events are a way to generate excitement, especially for a well-established player like Amazon. It's a means of creating news and buzz by coming up with your very own Black Friday out of nowhere." Gupta pointed out... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the Lewis and Clark Trail combined with two subsequent annual rides — helped raise almost $500,000 for Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Next summer he plans to complete the U.S.A. Four Corners Tour, a two-month, 14,000-mile odyssey that follows the outer perimeter of... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
future do not show this want/should pattern, and we discuss a potential explanation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Conversational Blindness: Answering the Wrong Question the Right Way Authors:Todd Rogers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
But most admired organizations are admired for a reason. They usually have processes and cultures in place that make their people better. You take someone from one of those organizations and put them somewhere else, and they'll miss that system that made them great.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
workplace dominated by men to one run almost entirely by women. As I've skidded from one end of the gendered-workplace spectrum to the other, I've become convinced that organizations dominated by women are different from those dominated by men, in View Details
- Portrait Project
Kelly O’Neil
I will find value in what the world discards. As a child, I dreaded taking out the compost. Walking all the way across the yard with a bucket of fresh smelly food for the compost heap was absolute torture. I couldn't believe that putrid... View Details