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- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit had seen its share of CEO turnover as it grappled with questions about how to moderate content and build a sustainable advertising model without crushing the site’s notoriously independent... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
deciding that. The naming of Brett McGurk to the government, as well as others who are part of this story, has given people some hope, I think. They have never given up, and I do hope that people take inspiration from this book: Women led, and they created role View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
professional athletes, the top performers in any industry — make all the money. That includes the executive market as well. The irony about pay-for-performance is that pay packages had no built-in control for the general rise in all stock... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
they must do to reshape their businesses for the 21st century. The Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business, by Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck, presents a revolutionary model for managing and measuring... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
necessary rigor and protocol to E Ink’s manufacturing efforts. And a new commitment to employee training resulted in E Ink University, an effort subsidized by a Massachusetts state grant that offered courses in Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and project management.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social realignment. The main focus is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
on them. Is in very comfortable circumstances & increasing his property daily.” Six additional reports tell more of the same: “is rich & good.” Then, in 1865, a few months after the end of the Civil War, a much briefer verdict: “Out of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
Karisimbi Partners, a three-person private consulting group that works with small- to mid-sized enterprises. “The idea behind Karisimbi’s model is that sustained economic growth in Rwanda requires private enterprise, reform, and direct... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Making Dreams Attainable
student body benefits everyone in the School’s learning model and community. Thanks to the support of generations of alumni, HBS offers the largest need-based financial aid program of any graduate business... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
operators, in addition to government-run vehicles. The result: an unregulated, competitive chaos on roads already choked with cars, motorcycles, and three-wheeled tuk tuks. If all goes to plan, bus service will be consolidated on clean,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
entrepreneur; your Airbnb host is an entrepreneur; your Etsy craftsperson is an entrepreneur. Because of technology, individuals don’t need to work for a company, and the cost of entry is just plain easier. “Number two: Everything at the core of our society is getting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
addition to developing the skills necessary for effective teamwork. Our goal is to ensure that our graduates are well-versed in the principles of general management and prepared to lead organizations. We are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
walks of life. He generously thanked people for their efforts on behalf of the School, sending handwritten notes in distinctive longhand. McArthur also was there for members of the HBS community in good and bad times. He often appeared... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Hilton Wood and Vanessa Royle from the Southern California region. In addition to being HBS classmates, the winning teams all cut their teeth in either the Startup Operations course or the first-year immersion program, Startup... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
graduating MBAs to engage in and influence the key strategic priorities of leading social sector organizations. Although the article cited the generous financial support that HBS and its donor base provides to fellows, it’s also worth... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
enterprise. Its fifteen core faculty members intend for the ALI’s innovative new curriculum — “life-stage appropriate and taking experience into account,” as Kanter put it — to serve as a model for other colleges and universities to give... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
less than $1 million in sales and 28 employees. But by 2007, Barker Steel was one of the largest independent rebar fabricators in North America with 12 locations throughout the Northeast, generating in some years more than $200 million in... View Details