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- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers insights on what View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
seen revenues increase 20 times over. “It turns out, doing what is right and what is good offer the best returns for investors, for customers, and for employees,” Waldron says. Waldron is optimistic that more View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
lousy infrastructure. Guess what? That's India. "If you want to succeed in emerging markets, if you want growth—and most companies have no choice—you have to go to these markets. You can't wish away the chaos; you have to embrace chaos,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
prevailing conditions. “In good times and bad,” he counseled, “it's wise to remember to lean against the wind.” Whitehead concluded by noting the trend among companies toward greater social involvement and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back on Course
Stephen Julius (MBA '88), who is English, and Stephen Heese (MBA '88), his Yank buddy, were classmates at HBS, divided by a common language perhaps, but united in their love of quality boats. Last year, the two men took the helm of Chris-Craft, the 128-year-old View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
field. Business really didn’t have anything like that. So as part of our work for the Leadership Initiative, Nitin and I compiled a list of 1,000 founders or CEOs who led U.S.-based companies for at least five years between 1900 and 2000.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
back, he can now say that the financial crisis turned out to be a blessing in disguise. “It gave us the time to build the company on our terms instead of the terms of the bull market,” which conditioned... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
season ticket sales and sponsorships, actually improved. O'Neil was recently named CEO of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment or HBSE. A holding company that's comprised of several sports properties including the 6ers, the New Jersey... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
Here’s a great saying that’s been particularly relevant in my life over the past few years: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” To rewind a bit, I was named president of Micron Technology in January 2012. Five days later, my boss, the CEO, died in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
firms hold twice as much cash in reserve, on average, as large, privately held firms. To come to his counterintuitive conclusion, Farre-Mensa analyzed 4,259 public firms and 25,477 private ones—the latter through a new collection of anonymized accounting data. He found... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in the social services. The... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
but COVID-19 did not solve safety issues, and, in fact, we found that there was a higher need for our product both at home (domestic violence) and out of the home (as people adapted to a new normal),” Fitzgerald said. In its first year, the View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
CURRENT READING "Given the fact that I spend half my time traveling around the world, whatever is on my BlackBerry. Going forward, if Google has its way, we will be able to download everything any time we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship wasn’t exactly a household word... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
1996 international bestseller, Leading Change. This time around, Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen of Deloitte Consulting bring to life the principles of successful change with stories culled from hundreds of interviews with people from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Jurvetson; Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), managing general partner, JPMorgan Partners; Stephen A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972), founding partner, president, & CEO, The Blackstone Group Fewer but better biotech companies are being funded with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
lifestyle branding. The more mobile phones, streaming media, and portable gaming evolve, the more time consumers are spending wearing headphones. Think about what headphones looked like in 2003 when the View Details