Big Four - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

humanities class of the semester, he met Fern, his future wife. “We were married four hours after we both graduated from Kansas State (Ross earned a BS in mathematics and Fern earned a BS in business education) and immediately moved to... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

27 Oct 2016
News

Paying It Forward

chains as well as small retailers on four continents. “People find us—despite very little marketing outside the United States—because everyone has the same problem,” says Kundu. “I see that we’re having an impact. What we are doing is... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 Jul 2014
News

Team Players

only worked in Boston, it was an eye-opening experience," Blumkin recalls. "Every day, we discussed a case in a different industry." Her studies led to a career in marketing, first at big companies such as American Express and Walt... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

growth of Southeast Asian low-cost carriers on the one hand, to the expansion of premium Gulf carriers on the other. The company, therefore, decided to launch a low-cost airline of its own called Scoot, the fourth brand in its portfolio. Now CEO Goh Choon Phong must... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

the complexities of balancing work and life. One particularly impactful moment was meeting Qasar Younis (MBA 2008), CEO of Applied Intuition. His perspective on career choices left a lasting impression for Stanley Tong (MBA 2026): “Meeting Qasar was awesome. The View Details

23 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

2000-2005 period covered in the paper, the number of titles that sold only a few copies each week increased twofold—yet the number of titles that didn't sell at all was four times as high as in 2000. The increasing clutter may be a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

sector. This is a big problem when product development cycles and election cycles don't mesh; government funding may be available with one administration and gone with the next. Consider California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over the previous four years and a 90 percent plunge in stock price. Included... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

01 Jun 2023
News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

cholera was a waterborne disease, so he went looking for the root cause and found a canal system gridlocked with plastic garbage. Much of the plastic he found in the canals and on the beaches was recyclable, so he spent the next four... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

22 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

Datar." Alumni were energized to be back together in person again at the event, which was cohosted by the School, the HBS Association of Southern California. The gathering took place at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills and... View Details

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to growing crops that offers a more... View Details

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home to a historic pottery... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

powerful in communicating what that company stands for—they're not just neutral mechanisms.—Thomas R. Piper In the good times, it seemed as if most of the emphasis was on diagnostic performance measures—which were often incomplete and were primarily financial—and View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

practice in the use of statistical, accounting, and financial analytic tools. A resident of Westwood, Massachusetts, Hayes sits on four corporate boards, chairs the investment committee at Swarthmore College (his alma mater), and is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Time to Make Time

People should think, "What are the to-dos, and who's going to do them?" Senior executives tend to think that they can accomplish this by just telling people what to do. But there's a big difference between assigning a task to be completed... View Details

Keywords: Time management

01 Jan 2003
News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

Office ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "You have to like what you are doing. Since you spend more time working than doing almost anything else, it makes a big difference if you're enjoying yourself." When Charles Rossotti became commissioner... View Details

04 Jun 2025
News

Slice of Life

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In 2018, Bill Crawford (MBA 2006) founded Righteous Slice, a pizza restaurant in Rexburg, Idaho that has been steadily earning critical acclaim. It has... View Details

19 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 19

recently faced a corruption enforcement action, employ a Big Four audit firm, and have a higher percentage of independent directors. Controlling for these effects, we find that firms with abnormally low... View Details