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- 01 Mar 2008
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Innovation, Inc.
R&D lab, increased its mergers and acquisitions of companies that had synergies with the company’s businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
General Motors morphed into a nation driven by small and nimble venture-backed start-ups such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Starbucks, and many others. Ever since, those small, innovative View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
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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
- 03 Dec 2019
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Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
(and has since sold) a startup company that lets people connect over a home-cooked meal for a small group. Hosts post dinner details and interested guests can register to attend. “Building Bridges is based... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2022
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
these distinguished graduates have contributed significantly to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do. Exemplary role models, they inspire all those who aspire to have an... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
companies are springing to life up and down the virtual lanes of the Information Superhighway. As the use of color and moving pictures becomes routine, says Sahlman, Internet "stores" may well be able to give customers an experience that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New
conversion rate, Means says. The company also raised $1.5 million in seed funding—all without spending a single dollar on marketing. Calley Means and Leslie Voorhees (both MBA 2015). (photos courtesy of Anomalie) The Question: Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
reduced the deductible students have to pay before being reimbursed for prescriptions from over $700 to under $200. “This was a true team effort, with many students working together,” she notes. “It was rewarding to play a small part in... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
therefore not suitable for industrial applications.” He turned down the money, bought out his partner, and relaunched the company with new people, eventually moving over to an advisory role as chairman of the board. Potentia initially... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
creditworthiness on purely financial and operational grounds, omitting the prejudice endemic among loan officers. The team used machine-learning techniques to sift through loan records from the Small Business Administration, identifying... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
monitoring the securities markets and approximately 28,000 registered entities and individuals that interact with those markets, to make sure they’re complying with federal securities laws. “If we believe a person or a company has run... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Consider Social Impact Leadership in a Warming World The HBS Club of Singapore and HBS Club of London cosponsored a lively virtual discussion, in late September to explore the ways companies can drive social... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
van Caldenborgh describes as “a hassle, but also an enormous amount of fun. “It’s a very precise building,” he elaborates. Lighting is a case in point. “The exhibition spaces have a glass roof and vellum ceilings. Light comes in through 150,000 View Details
- 04 May 2017
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Going the Distance
where he worked 13 years for Cisco Systems during its meteoric rise. His passion for engaging with customers led him to run a global support organization for Cisco’s biggest customers. While at Cisco, the company sent him to HBS’s... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
by his example. He grew up in a very small village in India and was one of the first people in his family to attend college, where he studied engineering. He then went to England to get a diploma in management from Manchester Business... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
the airport’s few runways. On the ground, there’s traffic congestion of an entirely different sort. Cars, trucks, three-wheelers, bicycles, rickshaws, and even a couple of horsemen jockey for position on a road far too small to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
together, Mitchell and Humpierres launched a line of microwavable heating pads filled with cherry pits. “It’s a very niche market,” Humpierres acknowledges, but once they saw that it was also successful, they decided to diversify. In June 2021, the pair launched... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
U.S. Army. He flew missions in Albania and Afghanistan before being called to Iraq in February 2003, where his assignment was more earthbound (but no less eventful) as headquarters company commander in charge of a 26-vehicle convoy and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
materials science from Northwestern and an M.S. from Stanford. After graduation, Agarwala returned to India, where in 1996 he started a successful iron-ore mining company and later founded a Calcutta-based management training school.... View Details