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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
of what the team does. “The luck of coming into a place where a big leader had left and that void hadn't been filled, and then being given a chance to fill that void, I don't believe I could have done what I got a chance to do without... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
harder than her male classmates to succeed. From her father, a Hungarian immigrant with no business training who bought New York City's Chelsea Hotel and turned it into one of the Big Apple's most famous... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Good Luck Charm
city it calls home. The company’s grants support Lincoln Center but also local performing- and community-arts groups and schools. For Quiroz, who grew up on Staten Island, attending events all over the city has made her feel “like I rediscovered New York.” She’s also... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General Electric in the 1990s. At that time, he recalls, a young MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Rebecca Henderson. Henderson’s research explores how organizations respond to large-scale technological shifts, most recently in regard to energy and the environment. Through interactive case studies, students learn how businesses can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Mittal Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World They Call Him Mr. China Bringing Global Back Home In 1976, in India’s Punjab region, 18-year-old Sunil Bharti Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) borrowed a modest sum from his father and founded... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
was a big undertaking, as most of them had never taught online before. “HBS has the highest teaching standards. We don’t like to do anything that isn’t phenomenal,” explains Datar. Fortunately, HBS had gained valuable experience and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
accepting so many refugees just because it was the right thing to do. It was a humanitarian crisis they had to respond to, not some great economic opportunity. If this refugee crisis is going to be instructive in the future, what lessons have we learned from what has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
would make him a learned man indeed. It seems LaMagna never met an offbeat scheme (drive-ins as discos) or gadget (square lasagna pans the length of lasagna noodles) that he didn’t like or want to turn into a start-up. He did hit it big... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Evolve! Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow by Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School Press) In her new book Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter declares that soon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
The more pressure you put on money managers for near-term performance, the more short-term their focus becomes. And the more pressure Wall Street puts on corporate America to deliver strong short-term performance, the more myopic the underlying View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
progress can come when you look for common ground.” For business leaders who want to have an impact on solving big social problems, Shumway observes, “There’s so much need. Look around and start with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
Video Embed Cryoocyte’s home lab in action With ocean fisheries increasingly failing to meet global demands—about 85 percent of them are classified as depleted or worse, according to the World Bank—the future of the food supply will depend on fish farming. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
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Water, Water Everywhere
"Just like everything from cosmetics to sugar, water is bought, repackaged, and sold," according to CBS MarketWatch (August 13, 1999). "Today, it's become an especially big business - a $300 billion one - as... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop
on paper: ‘Yeah, sure, we’re just going to create demand here and supply here, and it’s all going to work out.’ Even now, we’re still dealing with big challenges.” Soon after launching in April 2010, thredUP received seed financing from... View Details
- 26 May 2016
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Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
always in business development, sales, and closing deals,” says Mittal, who eventually moved to Bombay, where “in a six-hour day you could finish what would take a month in Ludhiana.” With the resources of a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change
out how business can do things better. This is a major international problem, and it will need a framework of policies to make a big difference.” Pat Coady, an investment banker and environmentalist who... View Details