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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitability will come with a venture-fueled increase in scale can also lead to the all-too-familiar scenario in which a startup exhausts its capital without ever achieving sustainable growth. Emphasizing profitability and financial... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
an antitrust case against seventeen investment banking firms in New York City, an effort that led him to do an exhaustive study of the securities industry. In 1984, Fox received the Harvard Business School's Distinguished Service Award,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
River. The people were watching a German shepherd dog out in the water, in a hole in the ice, struggling to get some traction to get up onto solid ice. Fred and I continued on our way to I cannot recall where, and when we returned it was evident that the dog was just... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
about drop off, then I'm exhausted and I go to little coffee shops and take 30 minutes of just sort of deep breathes and just sort of think about the sort of imprint I want to leave on the day. And so coffee shops are always fun people... View Details
- 02 May 2021
- News
They’re Banking on Him
stress-induced exhaustion and forced to take a short leave to recuperate. But he came back—and so did Lloyds, which ultimately reprivatized, repaying the taxpayer money it had borrowed. Now he’ll take on a task that many consider more... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
tell our story so that people could grasp the power of what Facily was trying to do. Ultimately, we were able to put this in action in a number of meetings.” What Westphal accomplished in a short time as the company’s first intern was exceptional, said Dzodan. “Eric... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
exhaustive search during which she learned a lot from all kinds of constituencies. I have had the benefit of hearing her distillation of that input. I’m also talking with key staff, and I’m reaching out to our alumni around the world. I... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and we'll work together to fix it.' They weren't encumbered by a lot of the exhaustive self-doubt that you often find in other disciplines. That was surprising and appealing to me. HBS gave me much greater precision about motives,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
this activity in established institutions. At HBS, he racked the exhaust pipes on his old, turquoise-blue Ford pickup with the express purpose of setting off car alarms in the Soldiers Field Park garage. He used game theory in a classroom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
35-year-old males is one based on a lot of accessories like tricked-out exhausts and spoilers, and it’s dominated by Japanese imports. We could lie about the GTI and try to make it live in that world, but instead we developed the “Un-Pimp... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
these three prompts: I will let go of I am grateful for And I will focus on Thinking about letting go helps crystallize and eject a swirling anxiety. Narrowing our focus helps cut through fogs of cognitive exhaustion and endless decision... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
process, just grueling. Public and, you know, Jack was like the most famous business leader probably in the history of the world. Because, you know, the markets were booming. He was really famous. And so, you know, it was all like spotlights all the time. So it was an... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
launch were exhausting but exciting as we raced to hit our deadlines. We were living the Silicon Valley dream. The afternoon before the launch, I had retreated to a quiet restaurant to work alone when my phone rang. It was our data center... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
they knew to be hiding in the mountain range. Still there was reason for hope. Green had managed to send a message to his superiors in Bari through British radio channels: “All equipment lost[.] Majority in bad condition because exposure[,] frozen feet[,] View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
learned at HBS in this position? "The primary things that I leverage most heavily are effective team leadership—defining the vision, setting the right incentives, providing actionable feedback, and asking the right questions. "When team members bring an issue to me,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
electronic ink — not end products,” Wilcox says, “and we bet everything that electronic publishing would become a big industry.” The move came too late, and by January 2004, the remaining technical issues had exhausted the last of the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of September 11, 2001. She spent a year... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons