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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
Massachusetts. During the bubble, the most valued skill was the presumed ability to predict what hot concept could go public fast. Now the pendulum has swung back to valuing entrepreneurial skills first and foremost. There’s also a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
2004 investment, estimated at $18 million, had already appreciated about 20 times. This and other bets—including Hotmail (where Draper introduced the concept of viral marketing), Four11, Baidu, SolarCity, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yammer,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
and IBM tested such a concept in the early 1990s but terminated the project after failing to receive commitments from major record labels and retail franchisees. Perhaps more immediately on the minds of record executives is how to use... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
growing: There are now nearly 1,000 space companies worldwide according to industry analyst NewSpace Global, and they are touting revolutionary (and mostly unproven) new concepts in rockets, space tourism, and even space services, ranging... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
integrate business transactions to benefit the society around us. “I don’t think it is a surprise that, with three HBS alumni on our board [the third is Tom Avery (MBA 1977)], we’ve tried to incorporate this concept into PowerUP’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Most of the best businesses in Silicon Valley started with a very simple concept and extended into adjacent market segments as well as into global markets. Accel recently closed its second Chinese fund, this one for $510 million,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
director, and emeritus professor at Swarthmore College, with more than thirty years of experience in the theater. Together, they developed the “artful making” concept to encourage managers in today’s knowledge–based, project–focused... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing products in Asia, we can take a concept from a... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
phase four is the single-patient clinical trial. Morrell: So you are trying to build this new model of customized medicine and your first proof of concept is your brother. Horgan: That’s exactly right. And the idea isn’t just, let’s do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
’75) has been more circumspect in his statements, but in June he dispatched officials to Beijing to make the case for trade concessions. Transparency also remains an important issue. Long Yongtu, China’s former chief WTO negotiator, explained how the View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
and you have them played by people of color. That was startling to audiences. You take the founding fathers, you take Jefferson and you have him rap. Rap goes back to the 70s and 80s. Jefferson was born in, what? The 1740s? Two old View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
the concept while preserving and establishing satisfactory cash flow. —Roger Strang (DBA 1977) Expand as rapidly as possible within any con straints of capital. There are probably very few barriers to entry in creating such a marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
sixth-generation business, said it is possible for enterprises such as his to adapt to change. "The issue is flexibility and being able to diversify," he advised. Speaking from his company's experience, Zobel said that family businesses had to leap at opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
the concept that the person who “owned” the final purchaser actually could control the supply process all the way up the line, by controlling the shelf space. From that evolved the concept of private... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
necessary for effective management practice. A business case in each chapter illustrates key concepts and helps students place the material in the context of real-world practice. Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
this year in midtown Manhattan its first retail theme store, a concept that it will likely repeat in other cities around the world.) In licensing, as in other areas, the NBA has particularly rosy long-term prospects in terms of expansion... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman cowrote an article that introduced the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Lever Brothers’ Lifebuoy Soap, launched in 1926, warned of the grave personal and business consequences caused by “body odor,” a concept which Lever invented and its products prevented. Hygiene was increasingly associated with beauty. The... View Details