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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the XXVIth Olympiad, opening next month in Atlanta. On an overcast morning in Atlanta, as the airport rapid transit train glides past auto-body shops and rain-swept intersections toward downtown, a passenger can glimpse in the distance a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A $75 billion cyberdefense... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
managed to get our 90 libraries open an extra 25 percent more hours per week. And it’s just because the way we staffed previously was just not efficient. Over the same period, our circulation—which had been flat for about 12... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
miracle. Professor David B. Yoffie served as informal moderator and faculty chair. Global Gathering Early in the opening session on April 6, conference chairman Robert Piccus and HBS Dean Kim B. Clark welcomed the international group,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
everything. I would get in at 6 a.m. to clean the office and make coffee, and then just do whatever needed to be done in order to move the ball forward, from sales and marketing to finance and accounting (top of my mind during the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
the right inputs to grow more and access the right markets to sell more. Co-ops are one way to do this (form a group to access credit for inputs and sell products in bulk), but they are notoriously messy and hard to sustain. There are... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman, in providing the gift for this... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
corporation, the company pays only those marginal taxes that are charged in the tax haven. The subsidiary in country C may in turn sell the copiers on the open market for $1,500 each, allowing it to claim,... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
ECY winners for more than 20 years. “We care about, and choose, companies that will hopefully stand the test of time,” says Druyan. “We look at market cap, growth, whether it’s a compelling business. Companies have to be fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
eat some grasshoppers, ensuring (according to local lore) that they’ll return to Oaxaca one day. Day 3: Oaxaca Site Visits MI CASA ES SU CASA: On site visits, student groups focus on different tracks (housing, water, retail), gathering information from local residents... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
insistence on this point . . . accounts for much of our trouble with American society today." Articles on the social and ethical aspects of cases in the marketing curriculum and the results of a poll of business leaders' views on... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
also some sticks and penalties in it. The most important one is probably the first-of-its-kind fee on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, which is boosting the developing market for equipment to detect and measure methane... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
mother was dying of cancer, and he was caring for his grandparents. A younger brother had been killed in crossfire between the Israeli army and Palestinian police.” That fall, back at college, Hussein opened up a newspaper one day and saw... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Francisco with another slated to open this month in New York City. It has grown from the cofounders to more than 100 employees who, between the consulting practice and Bridgestar, have worked on more than 200 client engagements. In the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
the economist’s normal pastimes of rummaging through data sets, crunching numbers, and testing theories. But one day, he found himself hung up on the opening line of a teaching case: DuPont was considering entering the titanium dioxide... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Storrs Prescription: Build a Killer App Silicon Valley is known for being open to innovation, risk, and failure. At the opposite end of the table sits health care, with its strong emphasis on hierarchy, training, and experience—no... View Details