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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
instance, who are the customers, and how do they make decisions? O'Lear: I have been involved in microeconomic (company specific) upheaval. Prior to starting a company with two others, I worked at two high-tech companies: a privately held cardiac ultrasound View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
herself engaging on questions of policy solutions. When one student proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concerns about overlooking those who do not attend college. “Matriculating into college... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
sons. Another mother said her child had been killed for throwing mud on a poster of Saddam. I went up to one of these larger-than-life images and ripped it down. The people’s tension was palpable, but as we tore down more and more of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
brand’s image on Amazon. “I was building buzz around my own brand, and Amazon was working against me in that sense,” she says. In August 2019, Ford stopped listing products on the site. After a difficult March and April this year when the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
distraction the better—so it’s just my voice-over, informal and without a script. I also try my best to give students deeper intuition rather than just learning things by rote. I can also sometimes be a bit eccentric, which I think the students like. The screen View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s manufacturing plant in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
intuition rather than just learning things by rote. I can also sometimes be a bit eccentric, which I think the students like. The screen image is of a chalkboard, simulated through software, and I “write” on it as the lesson develops.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
DeRemate.com has founded an industry-wide nonprofit to advocate for the Internet. The company is also involved in supporting a government program that places computers in schools, with a goal of reaching eleven million young people by 2003. Evoking View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
for a larger screen, more storage, and other improvements over the Kindle 2, which sells for $299). “I’m 100 percent committed to making this deal close and making it a successful deal,” Wilcox told the Boston Globe in a June 13 article that cited some investors’ View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
wonders he had previously overlooked helped him cope, and he realized the power of the beauty he observed could help others, too. Despite his physical limitations, he began traveling the world to pursue this passion that made him feel so intensely alive. This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
idea to investors, and by 2014 he had secured the capital necessary to expand Go-Jek rapidly. Almost overnight, Go-Jek overhauled the image of the lowly ojek. Before then price gouging of the uninitiated was rampant, and ojek were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
gasp. He immediately planned another expedition to map the range, returning with dramatic close-up photos of Minya Konka’s snow-capped heights. The images had been as inspiring to the adventurers as the caption was deflating: “This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
set in 1920s South Carolina, provide disturbing images of Jim Crow at work. And the stand-alone story, “Morocco,” will convince readers that travel can help heal the deepest of wounds. Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era: How Angel... View Details