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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
12,000 miles; just a few years later it was up to every 20,000 miles -- unless you had a set of new Michelin or Bridgestone radial tires, imported from France or Japan, respectively, which lasted for 40,000 miles. And these days there are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
help people save a bundle, look better, feel better, and have enhanced confidence. Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise by Alan Rosling (MBA 1988) (Hachette India) A fresh wave of enterprise and start-ups, rapid advancements in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, adopting View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
point for Mendoza and she began to build a personal brand around performing while at HBS. She noted “For the first time I thought ‘Maybe these two things can coexist. Maybe I don’t need to be just one thing.’” Bringing Authenticity to Business As she explored this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Toy Story
centered on quality, FAO Schwartz now focuses on higher-end toys. The company is also designing its own products with its own brand and has acquired a children’s clothing company. The chain is now down from forty stores to just three, in... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products? How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
reluctance to open up the banking system and promote the yuan as a global reserve currency. These were the conclusions of nearly all respondents to this month’s column. Nevertheless, there was an undertone to the comments suggesting that a more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments (i.e., the fact that states cannot produce any commodity they want) and a commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2020
- In Practice
Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?
industry. That said, technology will be most powerfully utilized during the pandemic by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient organizations, more capable of managing the factors of production (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
extension of organization boundaries. In the future, will this phenomenon be limited primarily by the environment, or by the ability of managers to take advantage of it? What do you think? Original Article A byword of the new economy has... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
3 Concerns I Had about HBS
value of a section as not just friends, but as a family. Just like your family, you don’t choose your section, and they don’t choose you. It is a rare and wonderful experience to be a part of creating a new family that provides a safe... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
The School that Donham Built
campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
they price their products depend on consumer demand, value, and traditional market forces. Our present system suppresses these forces and innovation. Doctors can only provide services that fit static billing and payment codes. These codes... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
the launch of a new bank, Finansbank, selling both his homes and moving his wife, son, and daughter into a rental. "Entrepreneurship really means taking risks," says Özyeğin, who during that first year successfully opened four branches,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
the notion that efficient markets for capital, goods, and labor will always regulate themselves, producing the appropriate “price” of various inputs to the productive process. He advocates new trade... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
venture stage. For example, a student who wants to explore product management roles at early-stage battery storage companies and investing roles at venture capital firms with cleantech portfolios. But, there is only one summer during the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
encourage innovative thinking about a challenge is to deconstruct the problem, such as when a musical director makes the orchestra practice a madrigal at a snail's pace. When trying to create something new you have to do something... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
of commercial tech monetization, which includes wearable products in the health care category. The opportunity appealed to me in part because it uses so much of what I learned this year, including term sheets, market evaluation, and what... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
to learn what makes various businesses succeed or fail. Knowledge gained by the faculty in the field is core to the learning experience, as it generates new research, including course materials. It also drives the School’s economic model.... View Details
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Nikki Skovran
In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble – and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the... View Details