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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
attorney, put up seed money and became a silent partner. (Jardine is no longer involved in the company; his ideals soon clashed with the realities of a commercial venture.) Soon after, Coup and Kim moved to Boulder, the laid-back college... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
seize up, and that the interest rates charged to issuers of short-term commercial paper and corporate bonds would leap upwards, leading to a painful squeeze for all kinds of private-sector borrowers. Not many people foresaw that this... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
We're all working as a team to beat the odds, and when we have a commercial success, it's like hitting a home run." "The era of the swashbuckler with a hunch who hits it big and goes broke on alternating Sundays has been the stuff of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
company’s culture on three cornerstones: quality, performance, and valuing the individual employee. As for strategy and the bottom line, the commercial areas he focused on were the medical-services business and the fiber division—even... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
property might fetch 20 percent more now, he adds. Like many other sectors in Greece, commercial real estate is on the rebound. It’s a direct response to the July 2019 national election in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
to be a boon to the brand. The addition of more modular units also allowed the company to grow different types of greens, enhancing R&D and commercial growth. This diversity came into play when they were bidding for the Emirates contract.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
They also detail how the city's business leaders stepped in to begin the slow, arduous process of creating new organizations, strategies, and alliances that eventually turned Cleveland into a vibrant commercial center. As part of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
chemical fertilizers. Soil from the average cultivated field contains 0.5 to 1 percent carbon, while soil from the average virgin land, including forest and prairie, contains 3 to 7 percent. “Carbon capture is the only way to get out of this,” he said, explaining his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
taken seriously." Nevertheless, he decided that his new software program was better suited to PC use. Before long, Bricklin and Frankston had launched their first product: VisiCalc, the first commercially available electronic spreadsheet.... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
commercial perks and government benefits to veterans, Hall feels gratified that his business venture is directly serving men and women who have served their country. He thinks of a sniper who fought under his command. In Iraq, the soldier... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
commercial operation." "Big budget museums don't have a lot of financial leeway," adds HBS professor William J. Poorvu, treasurer and trustee of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, who has written a case about this quirky Boston... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my mentor. He made banking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
and shipping them to restaurants. His idea was to use a similar procedure as the basis for a commercial ready-to-heat soup operation. Eager for a new challenge and armed with both legal and business know-how, Shafir joined with Nessen to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be kidding me. So the first thing is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Clark Bids Farewell to HBS
effort in Allston around the commercialization of science and technology. Finally, values and leadership may be the most important work we’ve done here. Leadership is now a defining characteristic of HBS, with a yearlong sequence of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
used software to launch their attacks. “Under the press of business and getting a product to market, some commercial software manufacturers have indulged in a ‘good–enough’ standard,” says Langstaff. “They reason that they can always fix... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Current business models seem no friendlier to stem-cell R&D than the existing political climate. But that could be on the verge of change, says Bruce Cohen (MBA ’82), president and CEO of Cellerant Therapeutics. His Palo Alto firm develops and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
focused on the strategies, systems, and culture for taking their companies to the next level. Big can be beautiful, but it requires creative construction by leaders to avoid the creative destruction that is all too often the fate of too many. The Academy of Fisticuffs:... View Details