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- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Purdue University in the early 1970s, Harris saw lots of classmates veer down the wrong path. Seeing the high failure rate among minority students, he joined a campus group of black engineers, where, he says, "Our entire objective was to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Growth," followed four tracks of inquiry: managing innovation, information technology and competitive strategy, transforming the enterprise, and entrepreneurship. "Ours is an era of organizational experimentation," observed Professor Gary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
average cardholder owned 4.6 credit cards. On some of these cards, interest rates were as high as 30 percent. The use of consumer credit, while by no means new, reached unprecedented levels in the early twenty-first century .... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
back, he can now say that the financial crisis turned out to be a blessing in disguise. “It gave us the time to build the company on our terms instead of the terms of the bull market,” which conditioned investors to expect high... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
risk of using heroin. And with heroin being so available and inexpensive, then we've got a real potential nightmare on our hands. We've already got very high overdose death rates. Hanna: Do you think in developing these ads, I know you're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
marketplaces are often “winner take all,” and Nomad is not alone in pursuing a technological fix to health care staffing; delaying expansion risks ceding ground to new competitors. Which path should the company take? The Answers: Having... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
of the field, six of the unit's faculty are also affiliated with other units, including finance, organizational behavior, technology and operations management, and ethics. MBA courses having entrepreneurial content include Entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
with a team of fellow alums to create a $2.5 billion technology company. Today, Langford’s focus falls under an entirely different category of urgency: As executive director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP), he leads a nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
7-Eleven? ” says Rothrock. “Of course they do. But we make the penalties harsh. We make the capability to catch them high so that they think twice about it, and that’s what we’ve got to do with cyber.” But Rothrock is certain that we’ll... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
didn’t do that. You have just one very obvious public competitor in Europe’s Airbus. Is that healthy? The investment levels are so high in this business that it’s natural that there would be only two players in the space. I think China... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
the extraordinary work done by Conference Chair Don Hastings (MBA '53) and his organizing team, the Cleveland Conference received high marks all around. In addition to monitoring this conference's progress, the committee continued to... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and firm performance,” says Esty. “The projects I currently study are financed with 65 to 90 percent debt, compared with 25 to 35 percent for the typical industrial firm.” Both the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
Georges Viana surveyed a factory floor filled with silent, outdated machinery. Then, a quick, scuttling movement caught the corner of one eye: rats. He hadn’t known what to expect when he arrived in the city of Caen, 150 miles west of his Paris home, but rats were not... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as the View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Tosh Barron (MBA 1972) grew up outside of London, studying modern dance and competing on her high school’s sports teams. After college, while teaching physical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
represents a growing trend or an unsettling blip, but one thing is certain: As many changes as there have been in the film industry, more are sure to come as technology alters the way movies are made and how we watch them. The movies are... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
to the first contest. The climate was ripe in 1997. Enrollment in courses like Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management was way up; the Internet revolution — with its low barriers to entry — was in high gear; venture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
proven approach to analyzing and solving challenges and provides a common language anyone can understand. Teams That Work: The Six Characteristics of High Performing Teams by Cliff Chirls (MBA 1979), George Myers, and Tom Champoux... View Details