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- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
range of online cyber attacks, from spam to large DDoS attacks, and will make it easy to add third-party services. That first sentence of the business plan is what we do today. I think that it’s gotten broader, but we didn’t really pivot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
shipping. In addition, algae can grow in salty or brackish water under extremely harsh conditions; so unlike other biofuel feedstocks such as corn and soy, algae don’t need to compete with agricultural crops for fresh water and arable land. And the oil they produce is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Business with Minimal Risk by Bob Reiss with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (foreword by Howard H. Stevenson) (The Free Press) Entrepreneurs are not risk seekers; they are risk managers, risk sharers, and risk minimizers. This is a central lesson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
we provide free antiretroviral drugs to our 3,000 HIV- positive employees. In South America, we have multimillion-dollar projects to improve goat and cattle breeds, boost honey production, and diversify agricultural output. We work hard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
internal funding I’ve received here,” Neeley says. Because HBS research funds supported her study, Neeley was free to report her findings in a completely uninhibited and unprecedented way. “When your work is not funded by outside... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
with a free market, and replacing it with a government-owned or government-controlled airline industry. Although Emirates has done an extremely good job when it comes to customer service, I would argue that the primary reason for its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the China business as part of a global portfolio, under a range of geopolitical scenarios. The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times By Robert McLean and Charles Conn (MBA 1990) Wiley The world is changing faster and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
Immelt Photo courtesy General Electric Just a year after taking the helm of General Electric, Chairman and CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82) addressed a capacity crowd in Burden Auditorium on topics that ranged from the state of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
like-minded citizens to call it, ensuring that they were correctly directed to the right congressional office. But unless they rang during Capitol Hill’s business hours, they would never reach a live staffer. “We’ve learned the power of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to explore the basic principles of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
educational institutions. The son of a nurse and a power plant worker raised in Hibbing, Minnesota—a mining town in the state’s Iron Range that is famous for being both the birthplace of Bob Dylan and the site of the world’s largest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
to the employer. Later governmental measures protected workers in the event of unemployment and provided for security in retirement. Today, the government protects citizens from an array of hazards ranging from defective products, to... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
means my team is involved in a wide variety of tasks, ranging from purchasing, engaging with food donors, delivery scheduling, product inspection, and assortment optimization.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in your work? “There... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(such as failing health, fears of growing older, and grieving lost loved ones) and shares positive ways to meet your financial needs. And “Fresh Maps,” complete with advice from a range of role models, provides insights for changing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
"downsizing," "deregulation," "venture capital," "gene engineering," and "the litigation explosion." In third place was the "Cold War's end," an event that provoked a range of alumni comment, including "trillions became available... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
five continents, with clients ranging from top banks and law firms to Pfizer, Disney, and the US Air Force. A parent to two daughters, Dowling is also the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
broadly defined job description (“do whatever will benefit the college and the country”), we have also been free to take on additional roles, from government consulting work and advising the country’s nascent parliament to teaching... View Details