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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
Spar In her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception, HBS professor Debora Spar takes an unflinching look at a taboo topic: the myriad kinds of interpersonal arrangements and financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
CDs anymore. If the music industry doesn’t respond to this change quickly, it’s going to be in big trouble.” — Russell Simmons, chairman & CEO, Rush Communications; cofounder, Def Jam Recordings Dynamic Women in Business Conference... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
industries and roles completely from what I'd been doing before school, and the financial crisis was really hard for me. It took about a year to find a job, and I took the first reasonable offer I got. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
they know what disruptive innovation means, but I’ve found it’s often misunderstood. The simplest way to describe it — in a way that applies to health care or any industry — is innovation that transforms a product or service that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
calls, and range maps.” Meanwhile, Thayer and his primary partner at Gateway had decided to part ways, leading Thayer to sell his majority stake in the firm. The financial freedom allowed him to focus full-time on what was beginning to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
has distinguished itself over the years through its industry knowledge, lending contacts, controlling ownership positions, and focus on proprietary deals that don’t involve bidding against other firms in a competitive auction process.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
it all over again. Those are the routines of the majority of our students. If tuition and fees are covered, it still is not easy, but it is more manageable. Is CCRI partnering with local businesses? We collaborate with companies across View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
how business is done in Colorado and to make it the leader in responsible business practice,” she says. “There are more than 1,800 Certified B Corporations, in more than 130 industries and 50 countries. Colorado, with more than 80 such... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
a profit-making opportunity and a legitimate part of the financial-services industry, this scale constraint was lifted. "Only when an economic activity generates above-average returns can it become an industry," says Chu, "and only an View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
and how far their daughter would set her sights. “When I was accepted at Harvard College, my parents’ immediate reaction was, ‘Great. Now how are we going to pay for this?’” remembers Harris. “I told them, ‘I don’t know, but we’re going to find a way.’” Through View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
successful.” The assessment trend is also driven by companies that are eager for what Schlatka calls “people data.” Businesses that have long relied on customer numbers and financial reports to make important decisions have recognized... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose founders have better job security. As a result, the bar for... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are adding credibility and momentum... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
US Navy, works as an application research engineer, and then attends Harvard Business School, where he finds that the financial industry is his true calling. So begins his rapid ascent in the corporate... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a nameless, faceless shareholder,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas Pitt, savior of the East India... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
percent of 2005 emissions. Importantly, the IRA, IIJA, and CHIPS Act together represent a return to industrial policy in the US, with significant direct investments and incentives for the onshoring of manufacturing and critical supply... View Details