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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
should emulate that posture: “Let us provide you backbone financial and other needed resources, rather than tell you how to educate kids.” In the future—especially post-COVID-19—companies should place particular focus on creating... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social realignment. The main View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
five characteristics distinguish outstanding ventures. Most ventures will have only two or three of these when they come to us, so we work with the team to add the missing elements. The characteristics are technical excellence; outstanding management; strategic View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
Research and Course Development in California's Silicon Valley in order to provide a base of operations for our faculty who are studying and developing cases on the rapidly growing, dynamic enterprises in that region. In Chicago next... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
I could acquire, but at the same time, it helped focus me, right? I wasn’t looking at everything and anything all over the map. It did help narrow the pool. RY: Robin, I think a lot of listeners might be wondering, “Gee, if I quit my job... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
merchant services allowing merchants to accept bitcoins. There are already early breakout companies in each of those categories, so now the focus is shifting slightly into building applications on top of the rails. I’m seeing a lot of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
social-services projects, Bloom recognizes that years will pass before a final benefit analysis can determine if the investment resulted in significant return. In the meantime, he and his MCC colleagues continue to keep a tight focus on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
roles, responsibilities, and boundaries. "Every year since," he says, "we've returned to Harvard with some dimension of implementing reform. But our focus now is more specific: communication, project management, and getting buy-in from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
sustainable community development. We also work informally with a number of other groups, but project work is really only half of what we do. What is your other focus? Our other focus is advocacy — essentially influencing the behavior of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
of Finance and Banking When searching out the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, Professor Robin Greenwood says one needs to look to the root of nearly every crisis: human behavior. With his focus on behavioral finance, Greenwood wears... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
That’s when David Dewan (MBA 1969) launched Contact Incorporated, in fierce competition with another Harvard startup, Operation Match. Both companies sold questionnaires to students—$3 for Operation Match;... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
encounters; (2) focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) foster “both/and” thinking in designing winning operating strategies; (4) hire for attitude and train... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
that thesis and focus on operational efficiencies and profitability. This runs counter to the model and doesn’t seem like it’s a narrative that will last forever. However, we know it’s here to stay at least... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
cost of starting firms falls, this lowers the cost of the option, so you will take on higher option value projects. You will potentially take on more of them and focus less on governance in the early stages. It’s what is known as a “spray... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School “My investors are diverse, including top-tier traditional venture funds and specialty funds that focus on diverse founders, and very experienced and successful angels, many of whom are women and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
meditation: Can yoga lose its spiritual focus and still be profitable? Yoga first appeared in sacred Hindu texts as a means to broaden consciousness, calm the mind, even mystically inhabit the bodies of other beings. The current notion of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
stepmother's homespun culinary skills, he created "Uncle Dave's Vermont-Made Old-Fashioned Ketchup," an all-natural, spoonable condiment in a jar whose time had apparently come; after just two weeks of sales the tasty sauce brought in $6,000. Within six months, Lyon... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
began with a review of the case, which was focused on two decisions facing asset management firm BlackRock, Inc.: Should the company license its Aladdin operating system? And should it acquire Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM)?... View Details