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- 01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life
would be least disruptive to her advancement as a financial analyst. As she emphasized in her earlier Bulletin interviews, she has also depended on a family network comprising her and her husband's parents and siblings to "share the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture capital firm in Mexico dedicated... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Marketing. Says Godes, “There are so many different layers to this case but, in particular, it captures two important concepts: reaction to competitive entry and the rethinking of one’s entire strategy — and corporate identity — in the face of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the harder one becomes to imagine (and, perhaps, the easier one becomes to start). A third and final lesson is that when a crisis strikes complacent investors it causes much more disruption than when it strikes battle-scarred ones. For... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
that have shaped the world of business scholarship, education, and practice, said Nohria. The School’s distinguished faculty can lay claim to introducing the concepts of business strategy, the balanced scorecard, venture capital, entrepreneurship, and View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
as they struggled to understand why the protagonists acted as they did, they might soon be getting the answer firsthand. Consistently, Sahlman tried to focus on what he calls the “fomenting attack”—that is, the agent of change that was attempting to change the rules of... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Broughton (MBA 2006) (Macmillan) Having the drive, ambition, and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset: the ability to disrupt the status quo, use design thinking to generate fresh perspectives, build resilience... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs when you have already swung at... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
of manufacturing, against the background of the evolving U.S.-China trade challenges. The talk was followed by a Q & A session and reception. Shih shared his expertise in manufacturing and product development across multiple industries to illuminate the current View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
not to say the founders don’t realize the challenges ahead. In general, the mining industry is considered to be traditional, capital-intensive, and slow to adopt new technologies. To their knowledge, no one else is trying to disrupt the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
a Boston-based technology financial services company whose mission is to reinvent hedge fund investing through disruptive technology, transparency and liquidity. PhytoTEK supplies a unique biologic solution for the infection-control... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Badaracco observes. "But in practice, they are generally costly and frequently disappointing. They often disrupt organizations, sometimes for years, and divert the time and energy of senior management." Because Badaracco believes that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
respect to government and economic restructuring,” Jasinowski remarks, referring to the disruptive movement from state-owned enterprises to newer plants funded by foreign direct investment. Getting Close to the Customer Foreign... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
“With the exception of Disney, which is disrupting itself, a lot of other companies in media and entertainment can’t invest fully in what the future might look like because they have a legacy business model that they need to protect.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
group that first voiced skepticism, demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is the leading researcher on the hidden costs of hosting megaevents like the Olympics and the World Cup. They provide a blueprint for citizens who seek to challenge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab
content—including no disruptive advertising. “We’re not trying to eradicate YouTube,” says Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor (MBA 2004). “We’re offering creators a different environment and business model that we think will be much more powerful by... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
to disrupt the financial sector to materially improve financial services, including expanding access to financial products to underserved communities through the use of new technologies. Salas, who studied with Lakhani while he was a... View Details
Keywords: April White