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- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
extent to which this newly raised awareness is productive. Can we rally local support, for example, toward genuinely effective solutions like pricing GHG emissions as a negative externality?” Can you finish this statement? “Adaptation Now... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
the smartphone, we decided to invest everything in the Treo. It wasn't a decision most people would have made. It saved our company." By then Palm had spun off from 3Com and gone public. Aware they needed a smartphone product, Palm... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
condition of his investment. As it turned out, assembling the business was relatively easy. Managing it proved nearly fatal. Perkowski was well aware that management training in China lagged decades behind the United States. Relying on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
overcome barriers to trade. But after nearly five years, Johnston realized he wanted business exposure, too. "As a European, I was very aware that American business schools were the place to learn business," he says, "and Harvard was my... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
$300 when he arrived at HBS. Through contacts at Harvard, he began a long-term association with the Rockefeller family, who kindled in him an awareness of “the wide canvas of global problems and the difference money could make.” In 1981... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
learn about their experiences and make others aware of them. There’s a surprising lack of knowledge about best practices and success stories in business efforts in regional competitiveness. One of the major purposes of this project is to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
necessities?” Saigal wonders. As challenging as it is to get there for a young startup, between the up-front costs of inventory, spending the marketing dollars to build awareness and keeping the product moving, Saigal can’t quite shake... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
US Department of Health and Human Services. The initiative is investing $500 million over the next few years in the research and development of products to tackle drug-resistant bacteria, including the work of Kimble’s and Triola’s companies. The pendulum is starting... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
asset. —George Corbin (MBA 1993) Develop the disposable and license out the rights (bearing royalties and potentially producing earlier milestone revenues or other income) to an existing digital platform. Having the platform in development digitally may help boost... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants of Enterprise as a labor of love. "I have been... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
Kundu is thrilled to be able to have such a significant and sustained impact on so many people. “I fully appreciate the opportunities I’ve had, and the good luck and good fortune,” he says. “Being born in the US, starting a company—all these things you can take for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
Aware of it? Yes. We have a history of being respectful of our customers’ evolving preferences. We are presently rolling out a wonderful new bistro steak salad and a new steak sandwich. Also look for Panera to develop some lower carb... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
hoped to leverage in a less-than-encouraging job market. Both are also well aware of their good fortune to have found specialized positions that fit their backgrounds yet offer great potential for personal and professional growth at a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
managing the incubators. You talk about Singapore as doing a good job at “setting the table” for entrepreneurial ventures. What is the secret of that country’s success? Singapore has been keenly aware of the need to create an environment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and third, by experience, which is bitterest. In your career, you will experience all three of these elements. When you receive your MBA, you will have completed an intense period of the first element: reflection. Learn to intellectually absorb and cultivate an ongoing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
before I arrived. The Gap, Inc., our parent company, was struggling to find a niche for Banana Republic. They knew that the original safari theme was no longer working, and they were aware that they needed to make serious changes. When I... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
brings together those voices to create greater awareness about what is going on and transfer those insights outward, but also builds some synergies around the research being conducted and catalyzed at HBS. What is the most critical... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
censorship on the rise, most young people in China today have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
kind of contextual awareness is a part of the toolkit that we want our students to use in thinking about these decisions. I also want them to think about who they are and their own personal commitments. In some situations, several courses... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
rules—is reaching out through various channels and learning about opportunities before they’re even announced. The truth is that many of those opportunities may never be advertised because they wind up being assigned behind closed doors. Why should leaders be View Details