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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
was a role model for me. I decided back then that I wanted to do what he did, work in technology and build a business.” That desire led Mistele to the University of Michigan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in computer engineering... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
this.' It was almost like, now I couldn't resist what I really wanted to do. It was great." More than her legal experience, however, Brochu sees her business background as really making the difference in her work. "The models of law... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Cushing, considered the father of modern neurosurgery, was operating at Harvard Medical School nearly a century ago. And even with all the activity Amadio describes, the bench-to-bedside time for new treatments has averaged more than a... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
this problem was a good fit to my personality. What I found powerful is that for me I had to have a model of how each of the different parties to the negotiation saw the world, what their pressures on them were, where their funding was,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
problem here was the first a-ha, and then the next a-ha was that we came up with a really elegant solution to it. And then we were like, wow there’s a really interesting business model around this. We did a lot of upfront work. We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Harvard’s Kennedy School, argue for serious corporate soul-searching: “As a society, we have bought into a system in which we ask little of corporate leaders beyond the aggressive pursuit of short-term self-interest. For two decades, this View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
machine. The grace period afforded people the time to make significant investments like that. The second strand of our work is developing new ways to identify which borrowers have high-growth opportunities. Microfinance often operates in... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
become similarly important. At some level, there should be critical learning coming out of the past year as to how to deliver education through new channels. We have the opportunity to throw the model up into the air and let the pieces... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
RS: Absolutely. And hopefully these new models will dispel the idea that there is a trade-off between providing excellent care and actually making money. There may be a sense that it has to be one or the other, but that is not always... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
began operation as a school without walls. Nine "at-risk" high school students - some of whom had been referred by theirschool guidance counselors, others who found Shackleton on their own - set forth in two specially equipped vans on a... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
operating system from 3Com. Within a year they shipped the Visor, a lower-cost PDA that quickly took 30 percent of the handheld market. At the same time, they started developing handheld products with communications technology, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
been particularly active) is a major factor in this phenomenon. Gaston Azcarraga (MBA 1983) is chairman and CEO of Mexico City-based Grupo Posadas (www.posadas.com), the leading hotel company in Mexico with operations in Brazil,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Leaders typically ask, “Am I accomplishing my program?” But that is too narrow a view. Nonprofit leaders need to be more visionary. They need to stretch themselves more and worry about mission impact. I believe nonprofit leaders get too bogged down in View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
There’s a theme over the past twenty years of American companies creating more horizontal business models that require depending on others for fundamental things. A lot of businesses overdid it, as we did on the 787. So one of the lessons... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
fashion, always is a role model for your kids. And if I look at the choices that they make, they have discovered that sort of passion for themselves, as well. So yeah, you make some trade-offs. We probably, could have accumulated more... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
the formation of funds to the investment of the funds in operating companies to the liquidation of those investments. A wide range of topics is considered, including the structure of venture partnerships, how venture capitalists oversee... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
venture capitalists and the amount invested in founders has its origins in the same historical forces that shaped most industries: When the VC model emerged in the 1940s, white men dominated the workforce. The persistence of the gender... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership,... View Details