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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the idea of a regular job and started... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
player in the development of the Valley. Working with Thomas J. Davis, Jr., in the firm Davis & Rock, as well as on his own (as Arthur Rock & Co.), Rock has backed many of the companies that make the Valley what it is today: Teledyne,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
was named at the time) buy the Internet media company Excite in the largest Internet merger yet. It's heady stuff for a guy who started out in the unglamorous position of controller of a semiconductor firm after graduating from HBS. But... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Professor Zoë Cullen finds that the long-term effects of pay transparency reverse the winners and losers, with firms benefiting significantly more than workers. “This was one of the most counterintuitive findings I have ever discovered,”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence at venture capital View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill. Political power in China, Huang says, is still skewed toward... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed, over the last 25 years, the accounting rate of return on inbound FDI to the United States has averaged... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
know, and that navigation unveiled itself at HBS.” As an alumna, Skeete Tatum has served as president of the HBS Alumni Board, and she and her husband recently joined the Board of Dean’s Advisors. After graduation, Skeete Tatum joined Cardinal Partners—an early-stage... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
average of 2.4 firms each. These are among the preliminary findings of a survey conducted early this year to shed light on the impact that HBS has had on helping MBA Program graduates along their diverse career paths. The survey, a first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail consultant and a cofounder of a fashion investment View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data into their broadcasts. And as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- News
Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest
be key, as will engaging the entire school personally (educate yourself), interpersonally (work across differences), and institutionally (work together for structural change). “In some ways, I think DEI work needs to be top-down, but I also want folks at every View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
improve the level of critical and divergent thinking before decisions are made while simultaneously building consensus to help implement those decisions. Actual situations examined include tragedy atop Mt. Everest and the space shuttle... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of organization—a private-sector View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
quickly bring new ideas to market," Kanter says. Steven C. Wheelwright, MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration and chairman of the MBA Program, who works with a variety of firms in areas such as innovation, renewal,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
that had huge societal benefits. This sets up a theoretical framework for examining today’s norms. Right now in the marketplace, the lines between open science, public knowledge, and proprietary knowledge and research are becoming blurred. A lot of View Details