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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

with HBS. CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT Funding is provided to the recipient for a specific opportunity and may not be transferred to a new opportunity without review and approval of the Review Committee. You must inform HBS if, during the time... View Details

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal

redesigned in a manner that would make Martha Stewart proud — and also gives an outsider a hint that she’s not exaggerating. During her New York days, Reade specialized in buying and selling firms that had... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Crop Production; Agriculture

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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog

success factor is exactly how a firm goes to market – with its sales force. But the rules have changed – innovations like ‘product-led-growth’ models and social media are changing the status quo and forcing managers to consider View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)

experience," Wasserstein laughs. After spending a year as a Knox Traveling Fellow at Cambridge University studying economics and law, he served as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. It was while handling legal... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, with Elizabeth McNair

01 Oct 1998
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Supplying Demand

When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

venture capital firm when he and his wife, Lee Bendig (whom he describes as a “foodie”), decided to open a fresh pasta retail store in 1989 with a few seats for lunchtime customers. On the first day of business, Garner recalls, “there was... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

track where your order is in the assembly process, even before it is ready for shipment. What we have learned from a host of these new applications is indeed important. When we first did the research study, our focus was on customer... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

to the belief, now firmly lodged in public consciousness, that high environmental standards are not just desirable but their birthright. To set the stage, Reinhardt reminded the group that pollution is not a new phenomenon in human... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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David A. Frankel

introduced me to more great people,” Frankel said. He ended up backing 27 startups before he and Paley founded Founder Collective, a venture capital firm based in Harvard Square and New York (Chris Dixon was... View Details

05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

many of the artists that Joyner and her husband, private equity investor Alfred Giuffrida, collect are enjoying increased visibility. Major museums in the United States (and beyond) are reevaluating the artists’ careers and influence through group and solo shows and in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

25 Feb 2020
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Teachable Moments

book to articulate the nuts and bolts of what goes into creating an environment for this transformation to occur.” As seen in these excerpts from DeLong’s new book, teaching—whether the milieu is the classroom or a conference room—is a... View Details

24 May 2022
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Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

started his first year at HBS. His experiences in New York and six years of prior service in the Marines combined for a firm base of public-sector problem-solving experience. Business school, he thought,... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

breaks the backs of U.S. firms that compete with companies in countries spending, at most, 12 percent of GDP on health care. Yet, despite this torrent of cash, more than 40 million Americans lack health insurance, mostly because they... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979

courageous, strategic, fast, and right.” CURRENT READING Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, by Robert Draper “Today, eBay does more than double the trading volume of the New York Stock Exchange. And eBay does it 24/7.” Meg... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992), an HBS executive fellow and founder of ContinuumLab.ai, a differentiated venture firm that incubates and launches AI startups. The Institute, which launched in July, has repurposed the lab-based research... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

The online bio of EARTH University’s new president Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) describes him as “Ecuadorian by birth, Latin American by heart.” Condo, a distinguished scholar and author, and the former president of INCAE, followed both his... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

of two years in exchange for partial sponsorship of my degree. The hours were intense. I also had this amazing new baby at home, and I was still nursing. So I asked for permission during my first few months to travel on consulting... View Details

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