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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Black Panther made more than $1.3 billion globally. (A sequel is due out this fall.) With the data points that Cohen collected, her team put words to their purpose: “To inspire a better world through the power of stories.” That forms the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
India. “Hence ‘Alumni in Action’.... powerful stories of resilience, purpose and giving back. Stories that restore one's faith in Humanity and inspire us to dream of a better tomorrow." MAY 25 Vinay Pasricha (OPM 39, 2010) cofounded an... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
Photography by Susan Young Even though government spending and philanthropic capital are powerful tools for helping people improve their lives and rise out of poverty, there are still problems with them.... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
PensionBee in 2014 to address this lack of continuity and introduce transparency to an industry that’s known to be convoluted and confusing. The company is able to track down a customer’s pension plans and consolidate them into one, which... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller
Supermarkets in Australia, and the media company ITV. Unsuccessful: The Conservative Party, where he served as an MP from 1996 to 2005. “While I was there, we became very good at losing elections, and politics in the UK is binary. Either you’re in View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
Deitch says that kind of support is still far from universal. Even with the rising values, there remain powers in the art world who are uninterested in the work of street and graffiti artists. “The support of some of the real art... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to develop the conversational artificial intelligence engine that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
or former college lacrosse teammates, you are limiting the likelihood of out-of-the-box ideas, Bouygues says. “What you want to think about is best-practice crossover across industries.” For a retail board, for example, the CEO would be expected to have the necessary... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
tell them that they were in and what were their priorities at that moment. And it related to finance. It could relate to work. It could work to charitable giving. It could relate to caregiving. They developed a whole framework. And then developed View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs because of this crisis. And there's opportunities to build businesses to address those needs. Or go work in the View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
there, is to have this community of people that are constantly learning, and growing, and investing in themselves. So that it isn't just about what Andela does within our business, but also what Africans can do when given the tools to go... View Details
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
"Being a partner at McKinsey, I had spent a lot of time around CEOs, but there's nobody like Jack Welch." Welch suggested that she meet with NBC chairman and CEO Bob Wright. Not long after their meeting, Thomas-Graham was offered the position of CEO at CNBC.com.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
is certainly not the only game in town for startup hopefuls. The medical-device and biotechnology industries also lure people eager to create their own businesses, as do many of the areas that attracted entrepreneurs a decade ago. Of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis (integrating profit planning,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
and is going to succeed? It’s a multi-period, high-uncertainty-that-needs-to-be-resolved kind of process.” Sahlman’s revised framework soon proved a useful tool for understanding the seemingly chaotic world of entrepreneurial finance: “It... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
format. Users will find timely articles and essays on diverse management topics, interviews with HBS professors and industry leaders, excerpts from new HBS Publishing releases and current books recommended by Baker Library staff, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its actors. For example, in the latter part of the 19th century, the railroad, the telegraph, and a host of other innovations related to them —... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons