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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
that is dwarfed by the museum's immense airy inte-rior, or experiencing the overwhelming scale of the Met's grand entryway. Not surprisingly, maintaining these enormous older structures can be a challenge, particularly when taking into... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
non-profit employee before you’re going to go and become that person. Take all that money that you are making now, and sock away everything else. Also, don’t get used to the high-priced lifestyle that you’re going to have to scale back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
“These skills lie much more on the ‘doing’ side of the scale than the ‘knowing’ side,” says Datar. Such soft-skills development by its very nature involves labor-intensive small groups and requires “high-touch” faculty involvement with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
world. He overturns the common misconception that entrepreneurship is a hard-wired trait or the sole province of high-flying MBAs, and provides a proven method to identify consequential problems and an accessible process anyone can learn, master, and apply to solve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
converting an idea into reality, recruiting inspired talent, transforming buyers into partners, aligning financial and other supporters, and scaling the business. 100 Mistakes of a Start Up CEO (Start Up Guru Series) by Bill Lewis (AMP... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
start in butcher scales and time clocks and movement through virtually every aspect of technological development of the 20th century. While IBM doesn’t break out Watson’s revenue, the unit falls within IBM’s “strategic imperatives”: the... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
manage its operations for another three years. At that point, Murphy says, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep being the guy on the ground in the developing world or get the credentials to become more involved in the big picture.” His acceptance to HBS tipped the View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
quickly on the initial steps of the COVID-19 vaccine. The type of research he envisions would require government investment, he says, but not much. “You’re talking $10, $20 million dollars per vaccine preclinical,” he points out. “It’s not a lot of money on the View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
whoever. Which then allows them to begin to build apps for those platforms, like Android. And it's been excellent, I think we've had ... I think the number is now something around 40,000 people go through that program. We're going to have to figure how to View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
first, but eventually she went back to working forty hours a week. After more than a year of being pulled in too many directions, she made the decision to leave and start a part-time consulting practice in Boston. Although she is still working, she recalls struggling... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
demand for E Ink technology was growing rapidly, and the company had begun to scale up its production. “We were an R&D company trying to be a manufacturing company,” he remarks. One of the company’s largest accounts reneged on a confirmed... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
management case: “How do you try to understand the experiences and motivations of your colleagues and then pull everyone, together, onto a more sustainable path?” Previously in the minority when it came to proposing reforms, school board member Mark McAndrew says the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set spinning a virtuous cycle of foreign and domestic investment, job creation, and growth of a View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
he speaks of with such passion. “John Keells is probably the only company based in Sri Lanka that has the scale and commitment to create systemic change,” he says, noting that housing will be one area of focus. In October and November,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
counting. The six months Masha spent traveling the countryside to set up the Village Promoter program helped him see the scale of the challenges facing Nigerian farmers. The biggest problem wasn't the labor force—he'd never seen anyone... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
relationships, no matter how busy I am. As a result, I have thrived in every subsequent position. My most recent boss became such a close friend that she even set me up with my now-husband. Charmaine Ess Kyle (MBA 1999) Cofounder, Partners in View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
fast,” hyper-growth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. Help wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. Cascading... View Details