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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
Doriot HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION As a young man, Georges Doriot dreamed of running a factory, a rare aspirational failure in his long, storied career. Rather, he ended up teaching thousands of HBS students how they should run View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
services. The first really magnificent building was 998 Fifth Avenue, built in the early 1900s. It was known as simply 998. Everybody knew what it was. The same was true of 740 Park Avenue and 834 Fifth Avenue—where Rockefellers did live.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
annual energy demand. The Passive House movement got its start in Germany in the early 1990s; by the mid-2010s, there were an estimated 60,000 Passive House buildings in the world. But many of those are boxy, View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star Market chain... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
offer convenience, decent prices, or an okay shopping experience. Even very good is no longer good enough. To win and keep customers today, retailers must be nothing short of remarkable. Packed with case studies from some of modern... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
pond: “The great thing about working in finance in India was the opportunity to influence the evolution of the country’s financial institutions and regulatory structures. Very early on, I was part of the group that helped set up a second,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she said, and ordered the mine closed,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
was proposed in this country’s Constitution and codified in its modern form in 1836, began to have serious problems in 1982. What went wrong? Two fundamental changes occurred that weakened the system considerably. The first had to do with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
with each successful convert. Many startups run out of runway before getting there, so founders need to be particularly scrappy in gaining the most learning in the shortest period of time. That means fast product iterations unlock the greatest growth. But therein lies... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
campaign strategies, and ground-level tactics employed in a range of modern social change campaigns: tobacco control, gun rights expansion, LGBT marriage equality, and acid rain elimination. He also examines recent campaigns that seem to... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
who spent six years commercializing drugs and diagnostics in East and West Africa before earning her MBA. “There are frequently delays in diagnosis, where the turnaround time for a biopsy could be several weeks or months.” That lag time, she explains, can be a matter... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
mandate of modernizing the IRS was Rossotti, who was recruited by then U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and other top government officials because of his experience in running a major service- and technology-oriented business.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
institutions existed even before the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999. The truth is, large financial institutions are probably an unavoidable feature of modern life. Even many of the most ardent opponents of big banks favor the creation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
are much better leaders,” he explains. Stepping out of the CEO’s chair early gave George the opportunity to put his thoughts about leadership into a recently published book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets of Creating... View Details