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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
EVs want to conquer the mass market, they’ll need to, well, crush it. Until recently, the EV market had a high end and a low end—but no real middle. On the one hand, there was Tesla, which entered the View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
result was performance declines relative to our control group.” Read more about From Chalkboards to Chatbots Ayelet Israeli Ayelet Israeli Will Large Language Models Replace Traditional View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
opportunity to create products that enable consumers to easily do the right thing,” says Paiji Yoo. It’s a sentiment shared by founding member Gina Pak (MBA 2015) who, as... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
Representing the HBS Association of Northern California, BioMine, cofounder and CEO Bradoo’s company, received the 2011 Alumni New Venture Contest’s $25,000 first prize for its plan to mine the 40 million tons of “e-waste” generated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
regulation, consumer preferences, or technology change, managers in successful firms often respond with more of what worked in the past — a trap the author refers to as “active inertia.” When new realities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
work: let people be themselves; practice radical honesty; magnify people’s strengths; stand for authenticity (more than shareholder value); make work meaningful; and make simple rules. Theauthors also provide ways of assessing how a company is doing. View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
to subsidize less popular offerings. And now these strategies are pervading other industries from consumer electronics to fashion. “Although risky, betting heavily on the most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Learn Firsthand about Chinese Business
deep connections with HBS alumni on the mainland, McFarlan arranged a six-city itinerary of meetings with executives of major consumer products, textile, software, energy, microfinance, and banking concerns. In Beijing, the group spent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
humor I understand. How do you become one of those brands that people want to wear on a T-shirt? There’s no one commercial that’s going to make me want to wear an Apple or a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
million LBO in 1979 to buy the firm from Johnson & Johnson, Invacare's annual sales have grown from $19 million to $1.5 billion. "Everything starts with the product," says Mixon, who had been View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
internal workings of organizations, tending to ignore the larger market forces that affect them. "Today, however," says HBS professor Michael Jensen in the introduction to his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
the difference between consulting and finance and marketing and entrepreneurship,” says Polli. Career paths in accounting or consulting, for example, usually correlated to attention View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Curtis-Bey Photo courtesy of Sarah Curtis-Bey Sarah Curtis-Bey (SVMP 1997, MBA 2006) Executive Director, Clinique Global Marketing New York City "SVMP was a major driver of my decision to pursue a career in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers,... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
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Field Report: Rwanda
Karisimbi Partners, a three-person private consulting group that works with small- to mid-sized enterprises. “The idea behind Karisimbi’s model is that sustained economic growth in Rwanda requires private enterprise, reform, and View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes
I’ve had to really think hard about what it means to balance. Not only the most common interpretations, like work-life balance, but also the short view of being first to View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
But we felt if we marketed the shoe under a smaller brand, it might be taken more seriously as a specialty product.” The creative deal hashed out between the companies called for GoLite to get a cash... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
edge of space technology—and our national security establishment does—you’re going to be looking at those startups,” Weinzierl says. Military funding has been a boon to space startups that have seen capital... View Details