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- 01 Sep 2003
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Books
act of innovating — though it may well appear to be the right thing to do — can kill a company. Innovation, it seems, is not simply a reactive or random activity on the path to growth, but a strategic weapon. Wielded correctly, it can put... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
getting started here.” His firm, which focuses primarily on growth companies with $50–$200 million in revenues, recently closed a $556 million fund for cross-sector investment in India’s domestic market (the fourth completed fund since... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
investments signal a real urgency. Jim Matheson: I think in the last 10 years, we've seen now not only the measurable rise of greenhouse gas emissions, we've seen the good work of the IPCC, the International Panel on Climate Change and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
Skilling’s conduct will reopen discussions of what was the real offense committed by Skilling. The answer to this question is important because many of Skilling’s allegedly fraudulent activities fall into the “shadowed space” or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Entrepreneurship group here at HBS, in pursuing a whole host of generous philanthropic activities from NPR to the environment to just plain helping those in need, Howard has been a nonstop ball of energy and an inspiration to us all.” —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
core business to ensure that essential complements get off the ground. As desktop videoconferencing takes off, so, too, will demand for Intel's newest chip, the Pentium Pro. That is why the company has invested more than $100 million in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
population like an insurance product. Wellthy is trying to solve a painful problem for employees and employers, not spread the risk of that problem. I suggest charging a fee for service only to active users, and asking employers to... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
me, this meant not doing as much extracurricular activities as many other students—and being very selective about what I did do (I was one of the writers for the ‘HBS Show’ in my second year and worked on a business plan for a nonprofit).... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
(MBA ’01), a 34-year-old, well-connected political neophyte and the only Iraqi war veteran running for Congress as a Republican. “Having a guy who was on the ground and had an extremely active role in Iraq, and who came back and made a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
India, and other countries in Asia and the Middle East will no doubt continue to have very competitive manufacturing capability. Europe and America will have to continue to invest in manufacturing innovation to keep up. I’m confident that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
than ever. The Bulletin spoke to a sampling of alumni to get a view from the factory floor of how they plan to meet the challenges ahead. While the companies vary in size and make a diverse range of products, these owners, chairmen, and CEOs present a snapshot of a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
conversation with Coupounas immediately senses that she’s wide open to new ideas. These days, in fact, her Colorado-based activities are all about promoting new ideas. Coupounas is director of the first fully staffed field office of B... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
present, the business of stem cells remains a fledgling enterprise. Spar says that figures for 2003 reveal that only ten U.S. private-sector firms were actively involved in embryonic stem-cell research, spending just $70 million. For its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
a profit-making opportunity and a legitimate part of the financial-services industry, this scale constraint was lifted. "Only when an economic activity generates above-average returns can it become an industry," says Chu, "and only an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. To cover expenses and support her parents she worked first as a Mary Kay sales rep-resentative, then as an investment analyst, running to the office after classes and staying well into... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
improvement, and, ultimately, competitive advantage," he says. IBM's Global Workforce Diversity programs suggest how that process can work. In receiving the Ron Brown Award in the area of "Employee Initiatives," Big Blue, which is also very View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons