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- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
September 2007, that strategy was due for a major test. TiVo was a maker of digital video recorder (DVR) products and a distributor of DVR technology. Rogers believed that macro-trends in the home entertainment industry—the convergence of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
social entrepreneurship make? A: Without question, the social sector has contributed in significant ways to addressing major societal problems, yet traditional approaches are still falling short, especially as the intensity and complexity... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
is that the majority of local residents have come to share our objectives. How did you raise the money to build the cathedral? In 1995, my HBS education and corporate financial experience were central to persuading commercial lenders that... View Details
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Study Spaces | Baker Library
Stacks (Basement, via Third Floor) T he majority of Baker's circulating collection, as well as our serials and microformat materials, are located on the Stacks level. Accessible only from the elevator within the Stamps Reading Room , the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
implement meaningful campaign-finance reform and curb special-interest groups corrupts sound energy policymaking.” To begin to break this cycle, Bazerman proposes several steps. For example, the new 2009 administration could make decisions that bestow visible and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
At HBS Workshop, New CEOs Tune Up for the Top
last November. The goal of the intensive three-day program is to bring together, by invitation, about a dozen leaders from major American, Canadian, and British companies and team them with experienced CEOs and senior HBS faculty to... View Details
Keywords: Jon Prestage
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Down on the Farm: Frank Burke (MBA '87)
management, that's the biggest difference between us and the major leagues." Part of the optimum ballpark experience, Chattanooga LookoutsÐstyle, means children pay $2 for admission to historic, 7,500-seat Engel Stadium, and fans can... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
HBS professor of management Joseph B. Lassiter, III, the evening's featured speaker, outlined some of the major issues he addresses in his MBA course Entrepreneurial Marketing. A seasoned entrepreneur and former president of Wildfire... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered
of Tom’s classes could ever forget him.” Kennedy developed an expertise in international labor relations while teaching from 1976 to 1978 in an Executive Education program then offered by HBS in Switzerland. He also participated in management programs at View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
the major priorities that are holding back economic growth. What we’ve discovered through countless trips to Washington and discussions with political leaders (is that) in their offices, they agree with all of this. They would say, ‘Yeah,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
the bright sociology major just out of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Frankenberg found an apartment and soon launched a business venture that would make her one of the most prominent expatriates in the country. "I saw the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Antoinette J. ("Toni") Rapone
truly enjoyed me and that my father's Sicilian relatives gave me so much love," she says. That encouragement - combined with her father's military benefits - enabled her to attend Bennington College, where she majored in psychology and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
different times, in dissimilar styles and moods. "None of these individually captures me, but together they do," explains Walling, a quietly intense man who has been painting full-time for just a year. A history major at Stanford, Walling... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
majored in psychology as an undergraduate at Brown University and continued to develop that interest through the study of hakomi, a method of body-centered psychotherapy. Until recently, he also volunteered in the Young Presidents'... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
business owner to do as the clock keeps ticking? At some point, absent some major policy change, landlord patience will run out, and small businesses will have to make rent or mortgage payments. “Respondents overwhelmingly reported they... View Details
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
China, in particular in the major eastern cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. First of all, it is impossible to grasp the scale of the transformation without seeing it with one's own eyes. The physical, economic, and social immensity... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
temperatures will likely increase 6 degrees C by 2100, "which would have devastating consequences for the planet." This means more super droughts, floods, storms, fires, crop failures, sea-level rise, and other major... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
Cyberattacks are surging: Accenture reports that cyber intrusions jumped by 125 percent, globally, in the first half of 2021 over the same period in 2020. And while all those data breaches and ransomware attacks have meant major headaches... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
point Braun and Harder agree on is that democracy on the federal level has become too partisan and unresponsive to what a majority of the electorate wants. Both acknowledge that hyperpartisanship in Washington holds up legislative... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg