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- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
learned, understandably, is that as vinyl had gone out of fashion in the '80s and leading into the '90s, most of the pressing plants, a lot of which had been owned by major record labels, had closed. We'd moved to the cassette format,... View Details
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
another company for an amount of money that exceeds the fair market value. Specifically, the FASB was trying to determine whether goodwill should be amortized. To that end, FASB leaders met with leaders from several major accounting... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
acquisition or embark on a major European expansion, for example. While any competent CEO would discuss the initiative with his direct reports and, one hopes, gain their support, most subordinates will read the tea leaves and endorse... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
atmosphere in large quantities by capturing and storing greenhouse gases once emitted; and green hydrogen as a feedstock for steel production in combination with clean energy, which is a path to total decarbonization of steel production. We were impressed with our... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. With revenues of around $12 billion, it comprises some of the most famous firms in advertising, marketing, and public relations. He is now positioning WPP to turn the challenges of View Details
- Profile
Micah Macfarlane
wind, and solar. "I want to work on business development and strategy to scale the best ideas as rapidly and effectively as possible." After graduation, Micah wants to continue on that path – targeting our major sources of... View Details
- Profile
Justin Bardin
As a participant in the United States Navy's Immediate Graduate School Program, Justin Bardin is one of only twenty Naval Academy graduates selected for continued graduate studies, even as he maintains active duty status. "I had View Details
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Eric Sonnier
in New Orleans and Austin. “We see a gap in funding and networks that the three major entrepreneurial centers – Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York – already have. We want to build better models for smaller cities.” Equity Endeavor has a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Righting the Ship
annually from the U.S. Navy Working Capital Fund to each of the divisions, for capital improvement projects like buildings and equipment. But there was a major problem with the fund’s model: “In 2001, we were at 93 percent execution of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
Belsky “It turns out that we are not our greatest selves at either the low or the high points of a journey. Because during the lows, we tend to make decisions out of fear, and at the peaks, we make decisions out of ego, by falsely attributing the things that worked to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
daughter), Rucker Alex, registration of the site on major Web search engines, and the recent inclusion of the company's Web address on the home page of Shoes on the Net (a popular Internet consumer site), her store, inVestments, and her... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Curtis-Bey Photo courtesy of Sarah Curtis-Bey Sarah Curtis-Bey (SVMP 1997, MBA 2006) Executive Director, Clinique Global Marketing New York City "SVMP was a major driver of my decision to pursue a career in business and an MBA at Harvard.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
conducted, and developing platforms to promote digital reading. “It’s stunning that we still read so much on paper,” said Ballmer. In addition, the company will push forward with major efforts to build its online search and advertising... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
expenses to a level of $11 million less than originally planned. Major savings came in maintaining lower staffing levels, trimming costs in Executive Education and HBS Publishing, and deferring a number of discretionary maintenance... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Use Baker Library to Build a Target List
Private Companies,” keeping track of these lists can be cumbersome. Using The American City Business Journals, you can find hundreds of published and carefully analyzed lists for over 40 major metropolitan areas in the United States.... View Details
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
this happens is one of the many subjects discussed in the new book Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know, by authors Marc J. Epstein of Rice University and F. Warren McFarlan of Harvard Business School. In this excerpt from the introduction, Rice and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Small Leaders, Important Roles I enjoyed reading “This Is What I Do” in the December Bulletin, with its profiles of three alumni who are changing things for the better in their fields of endeavor. The vast majority of HBS alumni are not... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
chair of the Negotiation and Decision Making unit. Indeed, the field has grown so important that in 1994 HBS became the first major business school to require a full negotiation course for MBAs. In that popular new course, which draws on... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross