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- 19 Nov 2014
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The Power of Yes
housing, and safe drinking water. (One investment example includes d.light design, a company that provides solar lighting solutions to replace kerosene lanterns, which are more costly, dangerous, and unhealthy.) “Understanding the full... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
razor-sharp focus on the future. Although the products have changed over the years—from the glass bulbs for Thomas Edison’s electric light to the cover glass in Apple’s iPhones—Weeks sees a steady pattern of innovation paired with an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
expectations embedded in a company's stock price. Providing a fundamentally new way to evaluate all stocks, Expectations Investing will set investors on the path to success. Managers can also use the book to devise, adjust, and communicate their company's strategy in... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
access capital. “We wrote this case because it not only tells a particular story of two student leaders effecting change,” says Bussgang, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and managing partner at the VC firm, Flybridge. “But it also speaks to larger systemic issues and points a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
ground, he was spotting enemy positions from a light plane and calling in air strikes and artillery fire. After a year, Mixon left Vietnam with several Air Medals and a citation recognizing his "exceptionally valorous actions" in combat.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
extensions that would justify the heavy investment necessary to build a brand outside of Amazon. The question is whether there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Should Humpierres risk leaving Amazon in order to retain more control of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
human intelligence rather than replaces it. AI—and its subsets of machine learning and deep learning—has been transformative in the field of radiology, propelling it light years beyond Röntgen’s first X-ray image of his wife’s hand. It... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
with that tech background and a degree in electrical engineering, Ricotta had to get up to quantum speed when he joined Aliro. Quantum computing is a different paradigm, Ricotta explains. Whereas classical computers use bits and bytes to represent values of either zero... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
using reunion committees and mailings, the Bulletin, and the Web to get the word out. Other potential programs might focus on work/life balance and career management. In light of limited faculty resources, the committee encouraged the... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
who just applied to HBS, and another who was just accepted.” Tao says the guests had a lively conversation about the importance of Asian representation across all industries, especially in light of recent anti-Asian attacks. “We talked... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
EXCHANGING IDEAS: HBS Dean Jay Light talks with Stanford Dean Robert Joss. Stanford describes its new MBA curriculum, launched last fall, as a “revolutionary change in management education.” It aims to remedy what the school viewed as a... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
that interaction with the legal system changes.” Jackson says Hussam posed the big questions about “how we got here and what should we do.” Virtual breakout rooms facilitated discussion about how business leaders can find solutions. “My role was to shed View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
how fortunate I am, especially in light of my dad’s history. I’m also happy that my son Ricky has started taking an interest in helping too. For example, he led a workshop introducing the kids to Scratch programming, and donated his own... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
candor and passion during his March appearance at HBS. In light of the recent violence between Israelis and Palestinians, he was clearly dismayed to recall how close the two sides had come to reaching a comprehensive accord in December... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) gave the green... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress, by Bob Moesta with Greg Engle Fabulous use of #JTBD (jobs to be done) to cast a new light on a topic that not many MBAs address. —Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) Man’s Search for... View Details