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- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
the ways in which game theory can help explain actual patterns of interaction. Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In a new book that draws on nearly two decades of her View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
to research and write the book, film the documentary, and promote both projects on a speaking tour last fall. While she returns to her financial work this year, she knows the book’s work—to inspire change—is far from over. Whether it’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
assistance of LARC senior researcher Ricardo Reisen de Pinho (PMD 74, 1999), Frei was soon on her way to researching and writing “Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of ‘Courting the Poor.’ ” “Magazine Luiza has made a business of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
Jay Lorsch and the Boston Consulting Group’s Colin Carter (MBA ’71) argue that corporate boards have made progress in the last decade, but are being pressed to perform unrealistic duties, given their structure, processes, and membership. “Boards are trying to raise... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FIELD 3 Tests Students
‘plans’ to go to market,” explains Moon. “They actually had to launch a real business and generate real arm’s-length revenue.” Teams that didn’t make the cut moved to the “failed business track,” where they focused on writing an analysis... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
Bradach explores the inner dynamics of chains. "As a microcosm of the industry," writes Bradach, "these organizations serve as a window through which the problems and opportunities of chain management may be more fully understood." He... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
belts in putting judo strategy to work. They also suggest why this approach can sometimes fail. Managers reading this book will gain insights that will help them develop their own judo strategies, and sharpen their defenses against judo attacks. “Judo strategy is not... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
family settled in England. Cohen went on to win a scholarship to Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union, before attending HBS. Quite by coincidence as I write this, over the transom comes an update from Forsan Hussein (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
professor for the Capitalism and the State elective he took last year, gave him a copy of the posting for the newly created position. “I planned to share it with people in my network,” says Keller. “Once I read it, I thought, if I could View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
only on the unmet user needs of moms, millennials, and dogs, but really none on the soon-to-be 25 percent of our population that’s age 60-plus,” she says. Levy started writing business plans for companies she thought should exist but, she... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
among Jones’ friends, her husband encouraged her to write a book, and The Case Method Miracle was released last fall. Jones says the book is designed to help parents teach their children “independent thinking, wise judgement and grit.” “I... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
on sea duty aboard destroyers. The son and nephew of lawyers, Kiechel nevertheless discovered a more natural affinity for business, which led to his enrollment in the joint program. A summer job case writing for Louis Banks, a former... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
you can ride three miles. If you can ride three miles, you can ride 30 miles. If you can ride 30 miles, you can ride 300 miles How to: Write a Song Our instructor: Amrita Sen (MBA 1999), professional singer-songwriter I’ve been singing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
start-up will be a phone call away, if you have the right idea,” write Senor and Singer. But the IDF experience is not the only reason for Israel’s business success. For one thing, Israel leads the OECD countries in the percentage of GDP... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
technology as a strategy rather than just a solution in firms of all kinds. "My work," Nolan writes in the book's preface, "has led me to the conclusion that by their very nature, which is to be permeable and fluid, dot companies have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
As we wrapped up our writing assignments for this issue, I was struck by how many stories dealt with the same topic: entrepreneurship. The articles themselves aren’t big, but what they say about HBS is. The heady dream of starting and... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
And he kept running after that, too—weathering miles, years, and COVID. Just this summer, at 77, he competed as the oldest runner in the renowned 100-mile Western States Endurance Run. Today, still interested in inspiring runners and non-runners alike, Spector is View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
They are playing songs that everybody knows and the crowd will be singing along.” These students—“probably the best guitarists in the area”—are the next generation of professional musicians, the people who will be invigorating traditional bachata, View Details