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- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the USA.” With the acquisition of two universities (Cavendish in Uganda and Zambia) and a... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Waxing Philosophical
As he turned over company operations to his children last winter, it was a time for reflection for Samuel Johnson (MBA ’52), chairman emeritus of SC Johnson, one of the country’s oldest and largest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and Robert Simons. The lively and informative presentations were punctuated by questions from faculty eager to share their own insights or to challenge colleagues' assumptions. The group worked together to assemble the pieces of the Enron puzzle. How could a View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
that personalized medicine brings. This is particularly important in fast-moving diseases, where the window for a positive outcome is small. What aspects of their business model do pharmaceutical companies need to redesign to hasten the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Wes Hather. The would-be founders then went looking for “a big problem” and a tech-based solution. GroupTalent was born in 2011 to address the challenges of employee recruitment with an online marketplace. But two years later, the company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
for the first time in nine years, we asked former chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Board of Directors Kirk Sykes (OPM 26, 1998)—current president and managing director of the Urban Strategy America Fund—to field your... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
extraordinary start to my time at HBS. I can't imagine not having had the experience; it's a perfect fit with Foundations." Faculty, MBA Program staff, and other HBS employees all played active roles as facilitators, coordinators, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
time in seven years, and companies including Facebook and Netflix are bringing much-needed investment and jobs to a metro region of just under one million people. But Keller, a former state senator and most... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
of private landowners and the approvals of federal, state, and town officials,” says Skelly, who spends much of his time these days negotiating with investors, lawmakers, customers, landowners, and utility executives. Never one to shy... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
Leading Change by John P. Kotter (Harvard Business School Press) Total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, and restructuring -- innovations intended to make companies more competitive -- routinely fall short, says HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
accounting and SEC rules throughout that portion of the company where he had direct authority and accountability. Since Enron is certainly not the only company to have engaged in such gaming, the important... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
work is not just the pricing but also the cost. What are you doing on the cost side to make your business viable? SS: I looked up a lot of public 10-K forms of pure media companies like the New York Times... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
GROVE Born in Hungary in 1936, András István Gróf survived Nazi and Communist regimes before fleeing to the United States at the age of twenty. In 1997, as chairman and CEO of Intel, Andrew Stephen Grove was named Time magazine’s Man of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and his coauthors examine the practices of diverse companies such as Infosys, Nokia, Tata, and Campbell Soup to identify specific leadership goals essential for achieving sustainable value... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
“I’ve been jet-lagged for more than two decades,” he writes. A reader should expect great stories from a first-person account combining rock stars, high-octane politicians, and ruthless business executives, and Roedy doesn’t disappoint. There’s the View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
600 employers and 80,000 job seekers. In addition to offering on-demand workers through its marketplace, Apli’s chatbot and machine-learning models are now helping companies with mass recruiting of permanent employees. “Through Apli,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
Last summer Gregory W. Slayton (MBA '90) took a break from the rapid pace of Silicon Valley. The peace and quiet of a family vacation allowed him some time to reflect and, incidentally, he mentions, to start three companies. Slayton seems... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
¡Vamos al Cine!
Heyman: hitting 317 screens. As a student at HBS, movie buff Matthew Heyman (MBA '93) used to ask classmates what the theaters were like in their hometowns. When two classmates from Mexico City told him the theaters there were terrible, Heyman sensed an opportunity,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
Professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that increased federal spending causes local companies to lose sales and cut back on research, payroll, and other expenses. Indeed, reports HBS... View Details