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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
first is a mission-driven real estate development firm focused on creating desirable affordable housing for single mothers and their families. The second is a nonprofit that uses a percentage of the firm’s revenues to provide emergency... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
professors were doing what I liked to do, but with all the people in a section, the impact was multiplied eighty times," he observes. During his second year in the MBA Program, a research project on CEOs with Professor Nitin Nohria... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leadership Initiative, and Professor Nohria present a series of profiles of great business leaders. Possessing “contextual intelligence” (an ability to understand the spirit of the times and harness it), these leaders built and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
company needed to launch a second flavor to expand its market and cross this threshold, but the capital required to scale-up a second product would challenge the team’s financial resources. The cofounders... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
Man with a Plan
Rane: Giving consumers a way to connect with his business. Photo courtesy Jimmy Rane By now, Jimmy Rane (OPM 11, 1986) is used to the questions. Wherever he goes, people ask, “Where’s your yellow shirt? Where’s your yellow hat?” Rane, the CEO of View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
have missed a cracked button in inspection, we didn’t fold the collar up as requested by the customer, etc.” “No second grader says, ‘I want to work in dry cleaning when I grow up.’” “No second grader says,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Project outreach
Devon E. Winey (MBA '98) prepares to paint a hallway at Second Step Transitional Living Center, a home for victims of domestic violence. Three students plant flowers at Boston Senior Home Care. A group of enthusiastic students spent the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Innovation Imperative
what we must do to assure a second great century for Harvard Business School.” With this issue, we are introducing a new feature, Investing in HBS, that highlights news and information about alumni gift... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
fellow collectors of rare records and books with sellers. His solution, the early e-commerce site Exchange.com, was sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in 1999. The second time Leschly sat down to assess his future, he again... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
produces great results in some cases is that when there’s a winner-take-all or a winner-take-most market, the first company to achieve critical scale becomes the enduring market leader. It ends up becoming what we call a Glengarry Glen... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Boom Times Ahead
Dent: a track record of being right on the money. Photo courtesy Harry Dent For investors, 2005 is going to be a very good year, and several more will follow, stock market guru Harry Dent (MBA ’79) claims in his new book, The Next Great... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
people have become disillusioned in their religious beliefs and are leaving the church in great numbers. They are doing so mainly because they find church dogmas and traditions lack credibility. The church has not maintained pace with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Constant Inspiration
partner organizations to work with students in Chile, where she has lived since 1997. In the second module of the required yearlong FIELD course, small teams of students develop or improve a product, service, or experience for their... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Wisdom and a special cause
Lorne Adrain (MBA '83), who owns an insurance and estate-planning business in Providence, Rhode Island, has just published his second book, The Most Important Thing I Know about the Spirit of Sport. "Inside are handwritten thoughts from... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
they believe tech entrepreneurs have the power to catalyze transformation in Latin America. MAYA Capital starts by supporting the first round of funding—getting the team off and running, in order to raise the second round. “Most of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future
have been as diverse as the School’s more than 70,000 alumni. Yet there has been one clear and consistent area of agreement: Alumni care passionately about the future of HBS, and we welcome the opportunity to support HBS and the new Dean as we usher in the School’s... View Details
Keywords: Ann Kelly
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
develop effective strategies for building new leadership roles in business and nonprofit organizations. Many participants, whose careers had diverged from more traditional business paths when their family-related responsibilities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Respond to a Worthy Cause
How do you follow a successful first act? With an even more successful second act, say three members of the HBS community involved in producing Respond II, a double CD of women artists released in January. Like its predecessor, Respond II... View Details