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- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
and asked for a player. And by the time the season's over, we had sent about four, five players to France. And when the next season started, we got some contact from teams in Spain, and we found ourselves with about a dozen players. Now,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Exxon Mobil stock. After working for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow, he started a real estate investment firm and now runs Waco-based Vananne LLC, focused on commercial real estate turnarounds and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
us to re-engineer and re-architect organizations and consider innovative ways to create and capture value. Technology is helping us amass more data, faster and cheaper, so that we can make better decisions in real View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. So now a patient can go into a telemedicine visit without a previously established relationship with a provider, who can bill for that time in a way that more closely reflects what they... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
ambidextrous organization that can embrace both exploiting the existing business while at the same time exploring new business opportunities. “There’s lots of change going on in the utility world today. Energy efficiency; we want to help... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
kiteboarding community—which includes Elon Musk and Richard Branson—is custom-made for startup culture, says Tai. “It’s work-hard, play-hard types with strength, stamina, and willingness to try new things, who take calculated risks repeatedly and fail 99 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2011
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Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, five African American students arrived at HBS. What they encountered—a predominantly white, male campus—seemed out of step for the times and the liberal Northeast. Their deep... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
about where we are, who we are, and what happened yesterday. We discuss each guest's enjoyment levels: Did George and Mary have a good time yesterday? Did they have a life experience? What are George and Mary planning to do today?"... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
mostly from high-tech and life-science start-ups, show that 73 percent of teams decide on terms in the venture’s first month, and the majority finalizes the split at that point. But there’s a real danger in splitting equity too soon and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
race because they are so efficient and, as a result, generate enormous prosperity. Moreover, real competition is a powerful driver of innovation. It’s not surprising that nearly every developing country is trying hard to get the free... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
why health-care reform is such a tough problem is that the challenges are complicated and interrelated. People who have studied this industry for a long time have come up with a number of feasible ideas to get at the cost problem,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
product performs the same essential function for all of them: delivering information across networks in real time. Ranadivé shares his expertise in his 1999 book, The Power of Now, in which he explores the impact on business of what is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
about Marketus, a young man who leaves home for the first time and travels to an island on a quest to answer some of life’s basic questions. The book, a conversation with the hero's inner voice, is divided into four fundamental sections:... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
success in China was tough. The country may be huge, Kirkwood advised, but in an elephantine market, it was best to "be a grasshopper." And when it came to payments and accounts receivable - forget credit - "cash equals quality." Joining... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
York City to his time as an internationally touring opera singer, his business launch during the Great Recession, and ultimately to his position as founder and CEO of Aria, a real estate company with a... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
was good, both departments were succeeding, and this man retired. Two years later I found myself opening my own auto dealership in our community, and it was time to hire my own staff. I went to this gentleman's house, sat on the back... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
it. My preferred artistic medium is music—I played the piano and violin and sang competitively from age five through high school. I don’t have as much time for it anymore, but, growing up, it helped me to relax, to engage with and develop... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Lecturer John Macomber. Macomber, who spent three decades in the real estate and construction business prior to joining HBS in 2007, is committed to making real progress on some of the problems that face... View Details