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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Voting rights, things like that. And so if you break down some of these, at times, difficult to understand topics into their component parts and act on those, it can be a huge boon. I had a friend who runs a huge construction company in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
learnings you’ve had as you’ve developed your businesses? SS: Honestly, the biggest problems we’re having right now is that every time we scale, everything breaks again. Right now, we’re looking at how we can start documenting everything.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation, as he put it, were sound? Upon... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Terwiesch Harvard Business Review Press What if there were a way to turn occasional, sporadic transactions with customers into long-term, continuous relationships—while simultaneously driving dramatic improvements in operational efficiency? What if you could View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee data to unreleased... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
mental illness, I think it's to talk about it. It's important to break the stigma attached with this mental illness. To raise awareness and raise understanding, really, of eating disorders, I think it's important for family members to... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
the first time I had a psychotic break in my second year at Harvard Business School. When I looked back after that, I realized that I had actually had symptoms as early as fourth grade, but it really wasn't until I had that break, that I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
trying to understand past histories, who is involved in what, and how that affects current and future deals,” she observes. The meeting breaks up and it’s off to Somerville for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for 42 units of affordable rental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
series. —Mike Graffeo (MBA 2006) This is not a plant, but The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy, by Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter. It explains how and why our system rewards... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Europe passed laws resembling America's Sherman Act. The European Community in particular instituted stringent regulations designed to break down trade barriers and maximize interfirm competition within and across national boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
especially dangerous when you’re first starting to work on new ventures. Part of you wants to get something done, to make that first deal or investment, in order to break the ice and get started. Yet if you give in to FOMO, you risk... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Columbia, where he studied economics and history. It was during a college break that he first met his lifelong partner, Myra. He was out with friends and she was on a date, but when they caught each other's eyes, Kraft felt a spark that... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
struggle between hope and despair,” Magwegwe recently told the online magazine Destiny Man. His first break came when a street vendor selling fruits and vegetables struck up a friendship with Magwegwe and learned of his dream to go to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
sports market? The evolving fan. Ruggiero breaks fandom into eras: First came the Age of the Local Fan, which lasted until the mid-1950s and saw geography as a determining factor. The Age of the Global Fan, which takes us up to today, saw... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
Business School got a big break in 1928. That story is revealed in “The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924–1933),” the first of several exhibitions in Baker Library marking the Centennial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
enrolled in US colleges and universities. The Question: Confi’s online health resource is marketed directly to students, but the go-to-market strategy for its sexual assault prevention program is less clear. How can Confi break into the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
and 47 minutes—29 minutes faster than any woman before her. The record she hasn’t broken—yet: The original objective was to break the speed record from the park entrance to the Aconcagua summit as part of an all-woman team. “I’m going to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
case study, as relevant today as it was then, of society breaking down under the brutalizing effects of war. For many subjects, from history to philosophy, from ethics to aesthetics, our intellectual inheritance from the ancient Greeks is... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
break out the most authentic Bhangra moves, you wouldn't guess that many of them were not exposed to South Asian dance styles before training to become instructors. "Another key aspect of our fitness program is that it is truly gender... View Details