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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
Starting a business is never easy. But staking your future — and your bank account — on a concept that’s never been tried before makes it especially difficult. Just ask Stephen Stuntz (MBA ’69), the founder View Details
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Facing Job Loss? More Skills Meant Faster Recovery in Uganda | Working Knowledge
basically an absence of a robust social safety net and formal support,” Alfonsi says. “But really, this makes Uganda pretty much a proxy for understanding the entire region.” Protecting workers, companies, View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
wrote in third grade about wanting to make a machine that would do all my homework,” recalls Mountz, the affable founder and CEO of Kiva Systems, a Massachusetts-based company that is revolutionizing the way e-commerce retailers such as... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
small staff of project managers who act as single points of contact (SPOCs) for the projects. SPOCs are confronted with a broad range of projects rich in scientific complexity and technical issues, well... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his ship was trapped... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/science/article/pii/S0305750X1400254X November 2014 Special Issue on Governments as Owners: Globalizing State-Owned Enterprises Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
Julianne White (MBA 2017) is vice president for food acquisition at the Greater Boston Food Bank. How did you become interested in the food industry? “I grew up with a lot of ties to agriculture. I was raised in a small community where... View Details
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Search Fund Fellowship | MBA
Search Fund Fellowship Thanks to the generosity of Catherine James Paglia (MBA 1976), the Search Fund Fellowship is a program designed to enable graduating students from all socio-economic backgrounds to pursue a self-funded search and to... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
her for a small chain of upscale restaurants run by Kansas-based Gilbert-Robinson, Inc. After two years as vice president of marketing, she returned to Minneapolis to work at an ad agency and to do some... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2378558 Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Publications January 2014 Harvard Business Review IDEO's Culture of Helping By: Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna Pillemer Abstract—Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Google, and venture capitalists Ann and John (MBA 1976) Doerr. Technology and a powerful mission ensure that Khan Academy’s impact far exceeds its View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
the car—but with collective action, these small changes could have a big impact, Tiller says. The organization also wants consumers to understand the connection between food and fuel: nearly 50 percent of... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
directors accountable to company owners." Major business groups lost no time denouncing the reform measures as vehicles for ceding enormous power to a small number of special-interest investors, namely, unions View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
here for almost ten years, running a family enterprise that dates back to the 1960s. Along with a few automobile-related businesses in the French West Indies, we are the distributor for Toyota, Suzuki, and... View Details
Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
moved from Henderson’s home to a large industrial plant. Under Henderson’s leadership, HI has grown from a small basement enterprise with $20,000 in sales to a large industrial technology firm with revenues... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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Alex Slusky
at New Enterprise Associates, then and now one of the largest VCs in the country.” After three years with NEA, Alex “got bitten by the entrepreneurial bug.” The technology industry, however, had taken a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
survey notes, more than half of HBS alumni launch a business. In this conversation, professors Tom Eisenmann and Bill Kerr discuss HBS’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which empowers students to create an View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
wrote about it with such insight and verve, his name will be forever linked to the idea. Beginning in the late 1920s Schumpeter made it clear that entrepreneurship could occur within large and View Details