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- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
second senior advisor delivered some further bad news. The higher the teaching ratings you get, he told Sahlman, the more likely you won’t be promoted. Come again? Entrepreneurship is amorphous. It’s storytelling. And storytelling is... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lending rates and the program’s ultimate benefit, since many of the women had not been able to substantially grow their food and crafts businesses or greatly improve their quality of life over the years. Now, with open access to Carlos... View Details
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
of teacher collaboration and training in the success of the students as well as the high rates of staff retention. (Though she was still grateful when some parents began to volunteer for lunch duty.) “It was a lot of small battles, a lot... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
seven sections of eighty students entering in September and four sections entering in January (the "January cohort") - has been highly successful. Having students enter HBS twice a year and in smaller groups has helped the program increase its View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
earliest stages over a long period of time. The United States will continue to be the epicenter, but the ripples will reach out to different parts of the world. Congress has passed a measure that would treat VC profits not as capital gains but as ordinary income, which... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
recession, when high unemployment rates lessened the demand for traveling nurses to answer the short-term staffing needs of hospitals around the country. “I call that part ‘hanging off the cliff,’” Moreno notes. With the implementation of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Meanwhile, birth rates declined, and children had less interest in toys that didn't offer instant gratification. Serious jolts were also taking place in the LEGO Group. Kjeld, out of the office for a year following a serious illness in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
discussion. Even so, he continued, it's good to keep the situation in perspective. When he graduated in the early 1980s, unemployment was around 12 percent, inflation was close to 15 percent, and interest rates were in double digits. “I... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Fundación, which is rated number one among all Mexican NGOs for efficiency by philanthropic watchdog Filantrofilia, has distributed $11.7 million in grants and loans. The selection criteria are simple: Mexican students accepted to a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
invited me in on an occasional guest-lecturer basis. When they first invited me five or six years ago, it was clear that I was the broccoli: Now here’s Rebecca, she’s going to talk about climate change and make you feel uncomfortable. In the past, I’ve always had... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
I was 14. It was a completely foreign world from working-class Detroit where I grew up, and it was terrifying. In my first job out of business school, my boss affectionately nicknamed me “Pitbull” because I had a very high hit rate in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Vibrant Brand
When Clinkscales received three thousand subscription cards back - an unheard of response rate in the magazine business - he knew he had found a niche that needed to be covered. By 1988, when Clinkscales entered HBS, Urban Profile was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
community can also use workstations in this area to access research tools, including Bloomberg, Thomson StreetEvents, and S&P Ratings Direct. For those who would rather read a newspaper than power up a laptop, there are nineteen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
can reform them to where they aren’t even a government program anymore. So your goal is to go beyond President Bush’s proposal to partially privatize Social Security? Well, everyone would have an option. If you want to stay in the old program, you can stay and earn a 1... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
and banks that had nearly collapsed have been cleaned up and are once again fueling the economy. In late 2023, Greece’s credit rating was bumped from junk to investment grade for the first time since 2010, signaling to foreign investors... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
also need is to have somebody to tell me I'm worth something.' Ex-welfare recipients have a higher retention rate than regular hires. At United, we match each one with a mentor; it's worked so well, we're thinking of providing mentors to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire
destroy the radar installations that were the eyes of Iraq's armed forces. Engines roaring on the carrier's pitching and rolling deck, Baldwin's plane was hurled day and night into the sky by one of two steam-powered catapults. The result was a View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
reputation-enhancing ratings on one platform. Compared to a small or midsized city, more entrants will vie for dominance in a large city. In a winner-take-all battle between five players, there's essentially a four-out-of-five chance of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
multi week program has a remarkable 85 percent completion rate across cohorts. CORe is now offered at educational institutions in the United States and to students around the world. At HBS, CORe is playing an important role in... View Details