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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
and interviewed with several firms. But she encountered a politely impenetrable wall that was common at the time: "They all said that they had no women partners and didn't anticipate ever having any," she reports. "We'd see that change... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Tribute to Fellowships
THOMPSON: Recipient of the Pub & Galley Fund fellowship sponsored by Michael Cronin (MBA ’77) and the Class of 1948 Fellowship, represented by Crandon Clark (MBA 3/’48). Most students arrive at HBS full of anticipation and eager to embark on their two-year MBA journey.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
low-emissivity insulated glass, dynamic glass changes tint on demand — so you can “instruct” it to block or allow solar heat and light based on outside conditions. Mulpuri’s delight in this technology makes perfect sense. He’s a materials... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
some mistake. The difference here is that the blockchain brings transparency and trust in this ledger: No one person controls it, and the public can see what changes happen. Now, if we extend this idea to a fiat currency system, let’s say... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
who passed away would think of what you're doing? Do you think he'd be proud of you? Would he feel honored, do you think? Ken: This definitely can come back to his door with respect to precipitating this stage. That was a nexus point at which I View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
work from home. I learned the benefit of meeting people where they are.” Let’s get real: “One day I said to the office manager, ‘You know, we have to get more women in here. If I had a heart attack in the ladies’ room it would be three weeks before anyone found me.’”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Lexington and the state of Kentucky — that’s worth paying attention to.” “Eighty percent of family businesses don’t make it to the second generation,” Clay observes. “We learned that in the successful transitions the founder has to be able to give up authority to View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
the '50s, '60s, and the first part of the '70s, what you had were a lot of families, old money, old families—the Phippses and the Mellons and the Vanderbilts. And so they individually, a single owner would have 50 horses. Well now, there are 10 owners in on a single... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
bought out his partner, changed the studio’s name from Ocean Spirit Yoga to Yoga by Donation, and eliminated fees and memberships. “People came in droves,” he says. What’s more, the setup is simplicity itself: no bookkeepers, no passes,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Koehn, with a presentation titled "Managing Change in the Third Industrial Revolution." Koehn galvanized the gathering with an interactive lecture and slide presentation that drew lessons from business history and focused particularly on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
business practices changed faster than academia could hope to capture in any sort of grand theoretical system,” Cruikshank observes, “HBS professors tended to talk in terms of ‘currently useful generalizations.’” In contrast, Christensen,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
sources any of its major ingredients from China and must now notify SmartPak if it changes ingredient suppliers. For its part, SmartPak also tests every batch of dog food for melamine and cyanuric acid, two substances found in all the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
because it’s about the process of assessing someone else: How do you do that structurally? How do you do it as an individual? And it shows that your history plays a huge role in how you behave. Rob Parson believed in his bones that if he became a managing director at... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
do? How do you adjust? Your teammates might speak a little English, and that has changed over the years. But certainly, in the first 20, 25 years, it was just such an isolating experience unless you had the players and the team prepared... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
reach wealthy and technologically savvy consumers fed up with gridlock and delay. At the heart of each business: a vision to change how Jakartans navigate the city’s congestion and transform their relationship with this sprawling... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
fintech startups. (FinTech Collective led the Series A financing for Quovo.) This opening resulted in what Gibbins describes as a gradual externalization of R&D at the major firms. Gotsch, who is not one to miss an opportunity—“never let a good crisis go to waste,” she... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
harsh statement. I think that that has really changed over the last 15 years. I think management really is taught and valued here. I think that's part of the reason why the ideas started spreading here first, but it's been really fun to... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
a change or a value is often not in lockstep with the actual data. The other one is I've had a few cases where I'm successfully able to sort of trick myself into doing things or just accepting things that I need to be accepting. So one... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Hear From Ukrainian CEOs on the Ground Thursday, April 7, 2022, 12pm to 1pm, Virtual program Ukrainian CEOs are going to extraordinary measures to keep their companies viable and their employees safe, not to mention meeting critical and constantly View Details
- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
and forced a major reexamination of how investment decisions are made at Blackstone, resulting in changes with a significant positive impact on the firm's success. Today, Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager with... View Details