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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
It's sad but true: Design Research, the Wursthaus, Elsie's, and a score of other local businesses once patronized by members of the Class of 1977 have long since closed their doors. But those who venture across the river during this year's 25th Reunion will be pleased... View Details
- Profile
Rakhshan Zahid
that a lot of these businesses were started by ordinary people. The real difference between someone with an idea and someone who starts a business is just courage – taking a leap. Then you look at everything from how to get financing, how... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
a 15-minute drive from our campus. One of the hijackers had spent his last night at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, a 13-minute walk from where we were sitting. “Today is obviously not an ordinary day,” she continued, battling mightily to... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
old, on average. Lab leaders spend a great deal of their energy recruiting the right people for their lab, nurturing a portfolio of interesting projects, and raising money. Most principal investigators, even the most successful ones in the world, spend at View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
dazzling Lake Michigan views. For anyone who couldn’t snag one of the 176 studios and one-bedrooms (they start at just under $1,400 a month), plenty of other office conversions are in the pipeline. At least 100 commercial-to-residential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- Profile
Rebecca Greenbaum
In high school, Rebecca Greenbaum realized that she wanted more than an ordinary college education. She wanted the "opportunity to be part of something bigger than myself. I don't come from a military family, but I was pulled in by... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate math problems. "Of course I had no... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
spurned because he is so harsh and demanding. He is in turn betrayed by his closest ally (John Sculley), but ultimately the clarity of his vision and charisma triumph, and he transforms the world. The transformation in communications he creates gives View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
entrepreneurship just doesn’t square with reality. Our special focus coverage of entrepreneurship in this issue will help set the record straight — starting with the cover photo. The pictured trio aren’t the future of entrepreneurship at... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
The Latin American Community at HBS
Latin American is a state of being, not a regional denomination. Or at least that is what I learned at Harvard Business School. Upon arriving at HBS, members of the Latin American community took conscious steps to get acquainted with... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
and health standards. He served a one-year term, from which he was just released. Ackman, a leading real estate investor and chairman emeritus of the Ackman Ziff Real Estate Group LLC and member of the advisory board of the Pershing View Details
- Profile
Linda Leung
In her junior and senior undergraduate years, Linda Leung fulfilled the dream job of nerds, or at least Star Wars enthusiasts, worldwide: she developed simulation models for ion propulsion engines, the real-world technology behind the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
where the business models, like the ideas behind them, are still expanding outward. Estimates by Grand View Research predict the industry will keep growing at a compound annual rate of 34 percent, at least through the next five years. The... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
a constructive identification result where the causal price parameter can be expressed as a function of the covariance of unobserved shocks. The function is estimated efficiently by the output of ordinary View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
others. That’s counterproductive, at least given the rhetoric of open offices. Architects aren’t clueless to this, of course. It’s just that the cocktail of other considerations, like cost per square foot... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
JCI is facing decisions regarding implementation of its business strategy, wondering if now is the time to diversify its service offerings. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805119 Kendall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS
place where you feel good at your job and well-versed in your industry, and it is scary to go back to square one. Sure, I had been inside a coal mine, knew more than I particularly cared to about scrap metal recycling, and could make a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
get any larger. However, as of 2019, new blades measured up to 107 meters long, or 8 times longer than the blade shown in the picture! With each incremental increase in the length of the blade, the swept area of the wind turbine increases by the blade length View Details
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
micrograms of total suspended particulates per cubic meter, yet the World Health Organization establishes 90 as a maximum safe level (Berlin's level is 50). Over 25,000 square kilometers of land were deforested in Brazil each year from... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh