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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
who began his card collection as a kid in the 1940s and recently wrote Time to Sell Those Sports Cards. “If you’re in it for money, it’s a little bit like playing the lottery. But if you just enjoy being able to try to test your acumen in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
Chinese cases, coupled with the worldwide reach of venture capital and the international aspirations of many fintech businesses (CB Insights predicts that European fintechs will expand their global footprint... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
England Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and president Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990) suggested an innovation they’d like to see: a way to predict the next Tom Brady. The Retail View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so many of his former HBS View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
Illustration by QuickHoney On the surface, there is seemingly nothing sexy about a startup that sells foam mattresses online. But in January 2014, David Coats (MBA 1992) and Trevor Kienzle (MBA 1991) made a significant seed-round... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
the changing global landscape for business leaders Look in any closet, toy chest, or family room in a typical Western home, and you’ll find a trove of goods supplied by a century-old Hong Kong–based export trading company— Li & Fung Ltd.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
famous inventor Charles F. Kettering (MBA ’27) predicted ARD would go bust in five years. But Doriot proved him wrong over the next 25 years, as his firm financed and nurtured more than 100 start-ups, many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
Everybody lights up. What are the advantages of a purebred dog? With a purebred you can predict size, temperament, and needs of the adult dog. If I show you a golden retriever puppy, you can expect it to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
for hourly workers, Morris realized: Companies lost money on training, and employees often started right back at minimum wage with each new job as they worked to learn an entirely new set of skills. This insight is at the heart of Syrg,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
Video Embed Ann Chao discusses the inspiration behind her new startup, Sonation. As a student, Ann Chao (MBA 2013) loved playing chamber music with HBS friends. But MBAs live busy lives, and their jam sessions were few View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
worries by emphasizing green energy use and decreased water consumption. Meanwhile, lab-grown diamonds, which first entered the commercial jewelry market in the late 1980s and are View Details