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Frank G. Hickey

increased from $26 million to $100 million. More important than the financial success he achieved, Hickey prepared General Instruments to capitalize on the growth of the communications industry. View Details

Keywords: Communications

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Anddria Clack

Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I have been a student and practitioner of business for several years. I started requesting to attend college-level business camps and internships while I was a still a... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Other Financial Services

11 Feb 2019
Blog Post

John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

information.” As an undergraduate at William & Mary, he interned at Google, where he gained an insider’s perspective on a new technology, Google Glass. Bracaglia wrote SQL for the Glass team, whose challenging public response inspired an View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Jun 2000
News

The Right Connections

From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. When trying to secure backing for a high-risk start-up, whom you know can be just as View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Jolie Chow

to expect next. Many of my friends emigrated to other countries out of fear, uncertainty." Jolie, however, was filled with curiosity. "The handover prompted me to wonder what it means to be part of an international community," she says. Living in Hong... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)

balance sheet. The most important thing is the people. If you love a job but hate the people, you will not survive. If you love the people but hate the job, you’ll be OK. Sometimes in life you have to hitch your wagon to someone. When I... View Details

Keywords: April White; real estate; leadership; diversity; African American; career paths; women in business; Real Estate

01 Nov 2022

Military Explore the HBS Case Method with Professor Jim Matheson

MBA students from the Military will then join you to share their experiences in the classroom, why they like the case method, and the importance of having veterans in an HBS classroom. View Details

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

would love to know when life will return to “normal” even if it is a different normal than what we have previously experienced. Many companies are running ads or issuing CEO messages that say: “We are in this together.” Perhaps it is more View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

24 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

changing nature of housing finance and its increasing reliance on less-regulated securitization markets. "As we move to greater reliance on private mortgage credit it will be important to combine such privatization with better... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

including the University 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... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

01 Jun 2005
News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

twenty years at the forefront of tax reform advocacy, what achievements would you like to be known for? My single most important achievement was creating the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise never to raise taxes. Since 1986, we have... View Details

Keywords: Government

Philip Lehman

Lehman was responsible for forming a profitable alliance with Goldman, Sachs that marked the beginning of a new type of investment house. Together they managed 114 negotiated offerings for 56 issuers. Their premiere interest was on the consumer field, which was more... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Robert E. Wood

Wood joined the retail business as a general manager at Montgomery Ward and Company, where he advocated the building of retail stores to capitalize on the growing importance of the automobile. After unsuccessfully battling over the... View Details

Keywords: Retail

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Business of Sports Club | MBA

Business of Sports Club To provide HBS students with a forum to discuss key business issues and a venue to host important decision makers within the sports industry. The club will expose MBA students to career opportunities within sports.... View Details

Profile

Dave Vitello

with a five-year-old.” Although his professional intention is to move from accounting to a more strategic leadership role, HBS is very much a family affair. “It’s important that this be a full family experience,” says Dave. Brita has... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

intractable obstacles to achieve great success. What is often overlooked or forgotten in the Alger stories is that the individuals who "came up from their bootstraps" did so with the assistance of an important and influential... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

devices configured to interrupt us make focused work a near impossibility for many. That inflicts a huge time penalty on workers, since start-stop-restart cycles are inefficient. Urgent and important things naturally draw employees’... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

important person in the company,” and encourage associates to feel psychologically safe and willing to take reasonable risks. “Observing John, I realized that the best leaders also possess qualities that make great teachers,” says DeLong,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2024
News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

chain trends, with a focus on the events of 2017 to 2022. They found that trade has rebounded from the pandemic shock, but that aggregate measures—such as American goods imports—mask big changes in the origins of those goods. The research showed that tariffs placed on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Lillian M. Vernon (Katz)

Arden, Avon and Revlon as well as imported goods. She also invested in several new distribution centers throughout New York and built a high-tech communications system to handle the increasingly large volume of orders. By the late 1980s,... View Details