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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
darkness, several men appeared in front of them and then several more behind them. It was the Służba Bezpieczeństwa or SB as it was commonly known. “You run left, I’ll run right,” Maj told Janek. Maj took the posters; Janek took the printing machine. Maj was fast, but... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
would turn us down, because they already had so many commitments. But they all said yes. They rearranged their schedules, telling us, 'I want to be a part of this!'" With the program and faculty (which was 60 percent female) in place,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
first Outstanding Educator Award. Christensen’s “Second Adventure” Christensen turned his attention to case-method teaching in the second half of his career at HBS. HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
curves at sixty miles an hour!” Any entrepreneur can tell you how well the same description suits the wild ride of a start-up, and the e-mail coming through on Gisholt’s Trio promised a perilous turn of its own. Back at company... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
change in global opportunities and risks. With increasing regulation and fierce competition between banks, the Western hemisphere was going to be a tougher place to do business. Emerging markets, however, offered many opportunities. Geoghegan reasoned that in HSBC's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
the online, Chicago-based t-shirt company, was not your typical fashion apparel company. The company, run by Jake Nickell, Jacob DeHart, and Jeffrey Kalmikoff, turned the fashion business on its head by enabling anyone to submit designs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
the second theme, which is mass production. So we're taking the mechanization and we're just doing it faster and more of it. Once we get good at that, then we begin to run out of customers. Beginning after the Civil War into the turn of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
smart, connected products that could be controlled remotely. But who really wanted to check ten different apps to make sure the heat was down, the doors were locked, and the lights were turned off? The Internet of Things (IoT) redefined... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
utility serving Pakistan's largest city. In 2010, the firm has made great strides in turning around the company, but the transition is not complete. In fact, completing the task involves significant work in rebuilding the social contract,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
only the decision to invest but also the subsequent value of the investment. Research on project finance turns out to provide some of the best examples of how and why financing structures matter (or why structure affects firm value). When... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) Wiley In just 10 short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Book on Very Long-Term Investing presents... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
deployed after the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as during world wars, previous pandemics, and other disasters. With that structure in place, the hospital was able to make the “crisp decisions that are required in warlike times,” says Slavin. That in View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Africa was going to knock off 54 countries. So I decided right from the get go, I'm going to see all of them in one big trip. I figured, OK, I need about three weeks per country. And I think that should be enough. But in the end, I needed about five weeks per country,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
research fellow at Professor Clay Christensen’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, thinks that the smaller, scrappier Chinese automakers may turn out to be the true disruptive innovators of the global EV market. By manufacturing inexpensive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
the best position to make difficult judgments about your business. It shows how to turn these judgments into coherent analysis. The basic building block is the value that is created when the buyer and seller make a deal. In simple terms,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
turning by the end of the 1950s. A 1959 article informed readers that women would be allowed to attend the School as second-year MBA students and doctoral candidates. "It is conceivable that a few young women would see good reason for... View Details
- Portrait Project
Randolph Rodrigues
professors here have stirred up. Along the way, I want to turn a stagnant fruit-processing company into a vibrant spring of innovative juices — transform a dormant granite and marble mine into a building-block of domestic rejuvenation —... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- News
Public Good
head” were with Chapman—her Uncle Billy also struggled with homelessness—she found it difficult to turn down the opportunity to lead United Way Miami: “I thought this could be a way to have a greater impact. The homeless community is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Les Vadasz (107th AMP)
firm's early days, says Vadasz, who started out as an engineering manager, the dialogue in the industry was too technical for nonengineers to grasp. Vadasz knew the business had reached a turning point when a vendor wanted to use... View Details