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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
— APA for short. The name later morphed to Apax — “unique” in Greek — an apt choice that reflects the firm’s investment style. The partners each launched small venture capital funds in their respective countries in the early 1980s.... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
trend as people are becoming more aware of the impact of dietary choices on climate change as well as personal health and animal welfare. Twelve startups joined the accelerator's first cohort, including a company producing lab-grown foie... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
produced Time Warner. Technology-driven new entrants are also changing the industry and none more so than the Internet. Will the Internet eventually replace television as a major consumer-advertising medium, or will it remain a secondary View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be market-driven, in spite of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
to them wherever they are in the world," Rogers notes. Another advantage is that alumni will no longer be limited in their choice of Internet access providers. "Alumni who already have accounts with AOL may choose to keep them, but they... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
invaluable skill. Especially within a startup, you must continually balance different challenges and opportunities and make choices based on your long-term vision and present resources.” Can you finish this sentence? “My HBS experience... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
clips of alumni interviews. As a result, Garvin says, "The conversations began on a higher plane. Students asked more detailed and personal questions about how to determine if this career trajectory was right for them. Alumni were quite open about the kinds of hard... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
sector, HBS professor Bill George noted that business leaders often are picked by the wrong criteria. “We mistakenly make choices based on charisma, image, and style when we should be choosing based on character, integrity, and... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
multicultural, turnaround artist and shake-things-up executive, born in Brazil, raised in Lebanon, educated in France, and revered in Japan (One poll there had Japanese women selecting the happily married Ghosn as their top choice for an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"We were never in any imminent danger, but there was always this question mark, a feeling that something big could happen," reports second-year MBA student Daniella Ballou, who spent last summer in Liberia as an intern with the International Rescue Committee (IRC). "It... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
dominance versus global or Western engagement. The regime’s sober assessment tipped the choice for negotiated political reconciliation, global engagement, and democratic economic governance. Nigeria is moving away from oil, and... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
turn difficult. 6. Manage risk and don’t spend needlessly. Successful entrepreneurs focus on managing their risks to the point where launching a new company is not much more risky than most of the other professional choices they could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
LR Ripsy Bandourian Risk-taker, investment strategist, go-getter Bandourian Growing up in Armenia during the waning Soviet years, Ripsy Bandourian was well on her way to becoming a medical doctor, like both of her parents and two of her grandparents. But the View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
bypass passwords, maintain purchase records from multiple sites, and link to customer service departments. Wallet advocates say that the technology gives consumers greater control, allowing customers more freedom of movement and choice... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
HBS Launches Unique Deferred-Admission Program
senior year looking for a job, this credential — knowing that they are going to HBS in two years — can lead to making authentic choices instead of positioning themselves for business school admission,” observes Leopold. “They can now ask,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Bulletin, I have difficulty understanding Debbie Rosenbaum’s “feelings of inadequacy or exclusion” given her obvious history of personal achievement and the clearly diversified class mix. Perhaps her discomfort is generated by the choices... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
and her choice to reunite with the love of her life. —Zibby Owen (MBA 2003) The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson, is a powerful climate novel. It helps one understand better how things might proceed, and somehow it manages... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
preschool, discover F.A.R.T.’s grand plan: a brain modem that can turn kids into well-behaved zombies! This wacky crew has no choice but to find out who’s behind the nefarious organization and save young people the world over. Let’s Be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
choice among those alternatives. That’s where these personal commitments can come into play. We’ve been teaching this case since 2016, and there are moments when I think we have the privacy issue under control, that we have a sense of... View Details