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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
leadership position?” The Answers: Create an Etsy-like program for subscribers to sell and distribute their own cat products. After being vetted for quality and fit, independent producers receive distribution and a percentage of sales. This View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
of dollars) Priority Raised to date Goal % Raised Attracting the best students $83 $100 83 % Deepening the learning experience $113 $120 94 % Attracting and developing faculty $68 $100 68 % Increasing global impact and outreach $109 $100... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
at it. “I cringe when I hear people say, ‘Oh, higher ed moves so slowly.’” “I cringe when I hear people say, ‘Oh, higher ed moves so slowly.’” RM: I think we see innovation with a capital "I" in things like the new pedagogy of Field, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Dean’s Conference Call Spotlights HBS Global Initiative
will play an increasingly important role aiding faculty in “creating new intellectual capital that spans the world in scope and impact,” Dean Kim B. Clark told HBS alumni who dialed into his January 11 conference call. Clark used the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons and destroy... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
Michelin private label tires for its replacement business in 1965, that should have been the time to exit. In 1969, when Goodrich realized it couldn't make money and had a chance to sell to Michelin, it should have but it didn't. And Firestone kept putting more View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
Warren Adams (MBA 1995) is making conservation a for-profit business with his company, Patagonia Sur, which merges conservation and capitalism seamlessly and symbiotically. Founded in 2007, Patagonia Sur purchases and permanently protects... View Details
- 13 Mar 2020
- News
Expanding Cancer Care
Dana-Farber, I oversee our innovation work, which is a grouping of commercializing our science and our technology to bring it from the labs to patients by partnering with industry, partnering with the venture capital world, creating... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
prominent LBO firm of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice -- as well as $10,000 in cash and in-kind professional services worth $10,000. The judges for the final competition included a number of HBS graduates and represented an array of top venture View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
the next day I reported to the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. Within a few weeks I was in Afghanistan. I was the senior human intelligence officer on the military side for overt collection. I had a team of 15 in civilian... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Principles Guide You by Bill Barnett (MBA 1971) (Stanford Business Books) Barnett approaches the construction of a long-term career plan by looking at the main challenges professionals will face: developing and reaching long-term targets,... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition is the largest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
leads off with a quarter of required “Management Perspectives” courses designed to provide students with an integrative overview of management challenges and to develop soft leadership and communication skills, including courses in... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
access to capital and networks that, historically, they couldn’t access. Many communities have mentors, advocates, and professional development opportunities built into their ecosystems, he says, but not... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Lab. And that may just be the answer to developing a strong small-business sector in emerging markets. In more developed markets, a bank can make loan decisions based on credit scores, that three-digit... View Details
Keywords: April White