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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
Thomas J. Watson Sr. in the face of monumental obstacles. Considered one of the greatest salesmen of all time, Watson joined IBM in 1914 and led the company for four decades. His eldest son, Tom Jr., was expected to follow in his father’s footsteps despite a mediocre... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
fund, with no proof of concept or track record of success—and the competitors he sought to disrupt are already sweeping over him. Hubris gets in the way of hitting singles and doubles; you hit the home runs when you have already swung at... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
the term for the shipping of unsolicited goods, a practice not unfamiliar to contemporary record clubs. "We really set the bar as high as possible," says Koehn. "It was a big gamble, but it worked. The students rose to the occasion... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies include: Automobiles (electric vehicles) Bookstores (Internet sales) Department stores (discounters) Doctors (nurse-practitioners) Health insurance (HMOs) Mainframe computers (desktops) Motorcycles (dirt bikes) Network television (cable tv) Photography... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
alumni from fields such as venture capital, consulting, law, accounting, life sciences, and technology. Legal services were sponsored by Cooley, LLP. LifeQube’s mobile clinic management system, MobiQube, creates and manages shared mobile-based longitudinal Electronic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
keep a written record of the interactions with the patients and also do research to understand the scientific, socioeconomic, and cultural issues that influence the patients’ experience. They come away with a newfound appreciation for all... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
well spent. You shouldn't need points on top of that and I will acknowledge that. But the numbers part of my brain is greatly helped by having the points and having some, even if it's not crazy and compelling logic, having some logic that, hey, I get to View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the harder one becomes to imagine (and, perhaps, the easier one becomes to start). A third and final lesson is that when a crisis strikes complacent investors it causes much more disruption than when it strikes battle-scarred ones. For the historical View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
record of geological formations penetrated during drilling that includes technical details of the operation. Mud Logger: On call 24/7 to analyze rock cuttings from a well that is being drilled. Pay Zone: The stratum of rock in which oil... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
of the great aspects of this sport is its element of uncertainty,” says DeWitt. “A losing team still wins about 40 percent of the games it plays, while a winning team wins around 60 percent. That means the team with the worst record can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
would you point to as a model Anglo project? Our technical experts audited our Barro Alto nickel project in Brazil last year, and they said they’ve never seen one so impressive on a range of issues. It has a state-of-the-art plant design. It View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
our business. We have built a business that is, despite our small scale, has a very clear track record of profitability, and have had the fundraising challenges And his response was "Well, you're not really a fast-growing business." And... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
NMNH, which has opened a record five new exhibitions in Fri's two-year tenure, realizes that in order to keep its title as the most-visited museum in the world, it must continue to create new attractions. Name: Robert Fri Title: Director... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the country, Green tried to negotiate space on a Soviet flight. They refused the American officer’s request. “This is the final contact from here,” Green wrote on October 25, as the OSS agents destroyed classified records and gathered... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
work. Hospitals have also largely been really focused on themselves: Where do we want to practice? How do we interact with one another? What medical records are most useful for billing? The exciting innovation in the industry is coming... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- News
Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry
was one of the original and largest HBS alumni clubs for a long time,” Slivka says. “Our records show that our first club president was Nathan Pearson (MBA 1934) who served in 1941 to 1942. So we go back close to 80 years.” Slivka said... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
life. As long as we can establish a track record of kids impressing employers in internships and going on to college, the money will be there." The bedrock of Shackleton's educational philosophy is leadership, and when asked about his own... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
business conditions has become an essential CEO survival skill. "The challenge of change has given rise to a CEO labor market that places a premium on a person's track record in leading change," write HBS professors Michael Beer and Nitin... View Details