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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
Thomas J. Watson Sr. in the face of monumental obstacles. Considered one of the greatest salesmen of all time, Watson joined IBM in 1914 and led the company for four decades. His eldest son, Tom Jr., was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps despite a mediocre... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
employees and an algorithm to match them to employers, Apli aims to fill that gap. “We got amazing media and investor exposure, which kick-started our fundraising process and helped us raise a new round of capital in record time,” Makarov... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
center-based, on-demand childcare company, was in search of unique funding models to fuel its expansion beyond two existing locations. Too small for private equity, in a sector that doesn’t attract VCs, and without enough of a track View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
a long-term record of success in business," notes Sanders, who says Welch offered to set up meetings for him with managers in the investment management field. "This is why I came to HBS — to meet people and take advantage of experiences... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
I see it as being the most creative and innovative time in the industry. It’s the Wild West,” said Ceci Kurzman, vice president of worldwide marketing for Epic Records Group. “The record business may be in... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
studying on our campus. In the same way that recorded music is a complement, not a substitute, for attending a live concert, and in the same way that watching a ballgame on television can’t really compete with the experience of sitting in... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
business e-mail account. If you have not yet activated your LEFA, please call the Alumni Records Office at 617-495-6438 or e-mail alumni_records@hbs.edu. In announcing the portal, Dean Kim B. Clark, a leading advocate of the power of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
would you point to as a model Anglo project? Our technical experts audited our Barro Alto nickel project in Brazil last year, and they said they’ve never seen one so impressive on a range of issues. It has a state-of-the-art plant design. It View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
profitability, and to illustrate the impact, Vail recorded a $2 million loss in the second quarter of 2008 compared to 2007.” Fix: Become an All-Weather Destination. “Vail should... become a recreational center that also offers skiing. By... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
In the 2013 independent feature film Beneath the Harvest Sky, two teenage boys struggle to find their future in a rural farming community in northern Maine. Set against the backdrop of the blue-potato farm that employs much of the town, one boy dreams of saving enough... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
day when board members sit around the table and simply wonder how we can dig ourselves out of the hole we’re in.” On balance, the firm excels at solving even the toughest problems, as evidenced by its track record as a top-tier firm. As... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
politically more influential, and industry less influential, than is commonly assumed. The prevailing view—that diffuse interests like those of consumers are too difficult to organize and too weak to influence public policy—represents, he thinks, a misreading of both... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
included everything from X-rays to endoscopy, and a pharmacy where a person could fill a prescription before heading home—with a printed copy of their electronic medical record in hand. Back in the early internet days of 2000, these... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lincoln Electric Company, from the brink of financial ruin to record sales and profits. The book is full of out-of-the-box ideas, shrewd business wisdom, and unorthodox techniques. As Hastings stated, “I didn’t write this book to teach... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
$600,000, or 7 percent from the previous year’s record high — nearly 30 percent of the School’s MBA graduates made or pledged gifts in fiscal 2003, compared with 26 percent last year. The market value of the HBS endowment and current-use... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Wang Papers to HBS
Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
post-Olympics thoughts with the Bulletin during a September interview. Does ACOG deserve a gold, silver, or bronze for its performance? I'll leave that to the judges to decide. The record shows that we sold just over 8.6 million tickets,... View Details