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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
third-generation venture capitalist, Draper is the grandson of General William H. Draper, who founded Silicon Valley’s first VC firm in 1958, and the son of Bill Draper (MBA 1954), who founded Draper & Johnson Investment Company in 1962... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
about the up-and-coming general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. “I was interested in the entertainment industry and globalization,” Hill recalls. “The article was about the business, not how she led.” So how did “Taran Swan at... View Details
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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
the required curriculum course The Entrepreneurial Manager Jim Sharpe (MBA ’76) is looking forward to stepping off the page to advise students who may be pondering some of the same questions he considered when he made the decision as an up-and-coming employee of View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Workforce." John Weber Newly Energized John Weber's career over the past decade has progressed as many only dream. He has moved successfully through a series of increasingly important assignments at companies such as General View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
you have on a tower means more energy. One tower could reduce electricity costs by 53% in the first year for a manufacturer or a refinery or an airport. Rio Tinto has invested and is building its first tower. We are currently moving from... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
imminent global impact of harmful carbon emissions have been circulating for months in anticipation of the June 2-4th meetings in Sweden, Stockholm+50 international environmental meetings. The United Nations General Assembly has convened... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
developed a way to measure electrical impulses in muscle tissue, and therefore measure changes in those impulses as the disease progresses. This one achievement can effectively reduce some costs associated with clinical trials by giving... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
mantra included: "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock," and the straightforward "man in the Hathaway shirt." By 1985, Ogilvy changed his tune, agreeing that a little fun is fine,... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- News
LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway
their venture succeed," says Gernon. "It's an incredible springboard mechanism to motivate you to get your ideas down on paper and start working towards your goal of launching a venture." Past winners include Fleetzero, Inc., a builder of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing... View Details
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Commencement 2020 Address | About
leadership roles and attack big problems at a time when society desperately needs leaders. Seventy-three years ago, at Harvard’s Commencement ceremony, General George Marshall announced a plan to rebuild the European economy after the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
set up formal planning departments by 1963.19 Some of these internal efforts were quite elaborate. General Electric (GE) is a bellwether example: It used Harvard faculty extensively in its executive... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now By John Doerr (MBA 1976) Portfolio In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
adequately considered whether or when this is true. In a sense, they have a very blunt tool that they are overusing. Second, there is a constant battle for shelf space in most grocery stores. If you are Quaker Oats, you would like to have more shelf space than View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
electricity or running water for a week. So people come because it brings them back to who they are, or who they really wish they were. And that's powerful. I think everyone's looking for meaning in their lives. And this is a jump start... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
tackled the identity issue when he helped General Electric revamp its marketing department, a process described in the October 2010 Harvard Business Review article Unleashing the Power of Marketing, in which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel