Filter Results:
(627)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(627)
- People (3)
- News (269)
- Research (245)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (55)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(627)
- People (3)
- News (269)
- Research (245)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (55)
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
others. The flip side of that, he said, is joy in the success of others, where "immediately, where one succeeds, the other members of the community celebrate because they believe that means they, too, can be on the road to... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
taken seriously." Nevertheless, he decided that his new software program was better suited to PC use. Before long, Bricklin and Frankston had launched their first product: VisiCalc, the first commercially available electronic spreadsheet.... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay with 2004 Kentucky Derby champion Smarty Jones. To leave Lexington’s Bluegrass Airport, exit on Man O’ War Boulevard, named for one of history’s greatest Thoroughbred champions. It’s a little like taking the new Ted Williams Tunnel... View Details
- Profile
Michael Maples
investing but when he looked around, he saw a gap in the market. There was a raft of startups that wanted to raise seed or early funding but were not ready for a five million dollar round, which seemed to be the minimum that Silicon Valley’s vaunted Sand Hill View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
seven years old and did not speak a word of English. Her father, a pilot, often took the family on weekend adventures to locations that were accessible only by air, landing a single prop plane on roads while vehicle traffic waited for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
MIT, she grew deeply interested in “spending long periods of time living with and living like” the people she studied, “trying to understand the world from their perspectives.” In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
were definitely slow-lane. So when the firm chose not one but two routes to recovery, Porsche caught industry watchers and Porsche enthusiasts by surprise. In addition to launching a new two-seater, the Boxster, in 1996, it decided to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was... View Details
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
out, are often underestimated and even overlooked, but they all display an inner strength that wins the day. For Marcelo, a young woman born in the Philippines, the road to entrepreneurial success was marked by moments of doubt from... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
"Success has always been an American preoccupation, but the definition of success takes on a new urgency today, when every conventional measure of success seems to have a faster burn rate than ever before," say Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, pipes and drums for... View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at Lehman Brothers in London learning about international finance and business. I can’t say enough about the people I met at the School. During the IPO road show, for example, at one of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
forbidding building that used to be the stock exchange. Before that it was the headquarters of the Communist Party. “The joke was that if you stood with your back to the Communist headquarters, you could see Nowy Świat, which means ‘the View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- Web
Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
photographers of the Farm Security Administration 1935-1936 depict the life of migrant famers and sharecroppers affected by the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The Farm Security Administration, and its predecessor the Resettlement Administration were government... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Deane Falcone, an expert plant biologist from the University of Massachusetts, to start defining the science side. “I was trying to figure out the technology road mapping for an industry that didn’t have a View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2017 Address | About
run as many laps as quickly as you can. Then, when it’s time to refuel and put new tires on the racecar, the driver pulls off the track to make a pit stop. In auto racing, one of the keys to victory is making quick pit stops. In other... View Details