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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
offering technical assistance to small business owners has been an onerous, difficult-to-scale process, resulting in drawn-out learning curves and missed opportunities: “AI enables us to sift through massive amounts of data in real View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
clients,” Treacy notes, adding the most important takeaway the company received from the NVC was retrospection. “The HBS competition was the first real opportunity I had to step back from the hectic day-to-day and really do some soul... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
phone bills at home. Major organizations will be essentially ready. I do expect a period of transition and inconvenience such as we are now experiencing at times with credit cards. And government agencies must work to catch up if they are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
the planet who are living in extreme poverty. You can’t have stability in the world with such widespread deprivation. Where do you get most of your news about the world? I read the Financial Times and scan the New York View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
levels of productivity. At 5.4 percent, 2002 saw the biggest annual gain in productivity growth since 1950. Like many consumers, companies are tightening their belts and doing more with less in an effort to survive, and thrive, at a time... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
disability. How did that experience give you empathy and how do you practice that in your professional life? CF: I think a lot of times after I went blind, and I was first walking around with my guide dog, people would come up to me and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in 2019.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
impact-weighted numbers would complete the picture of a company’s impacts alongside its financial value creation. To get there, the IWA Project has been building a large-scale data set to get a baseline for what impact looks like in a View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very useful in rationalizing other things we saw happening: VC investing across stages is effectively... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
Player One. And recently it’s felt like the right time in terms of technological advancements, accessibility, and investment for a field like VR to really start taking off and I wanted to be there when it did.” What promise do you think... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
manage technology in their subsequent careers. BULLETIN: How would you assess the state of the School today? CLARK: This really is a great time to be part of the Harvard Business School. There is a spirit of innovation and enterprise that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
Charlotte, North Carolina, where Socarras is vice president for sales and marketing at Afton Village, a mixed-use real estate development company. “It was a pretty intense course, a lot of work, but I invested in something I really... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Entrepreneurship group here at HBS, in pursuing a whole host of generous philanthropic activities from NPR to the environment to just plain helping those in need, Howard has been a nonstop ball of energy and an inspiration to us all.” — Former HBS Dean Jay Light... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
that experience? I lived in Asia for a time when I worked at GE, and I continue to be impressed by the growth there, particularly in India and China. I think it’s good for the people who govern our country to see more of that so they can... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
to be an extremely risky decision made by a sports fanatic, but in time it proved to be a winning business move. The decision to buy the Patriots fits a pattern that Kraft developed at a young age. He is a man who believes that anything... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
Skilling’s conduct will reopen discussions of what was the real offense committed by Skilling. The answer to this question is important because many of Skilling’s allegedly fraudulent activities fall into the “shadowed space” or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
algorithms and data collected from the individual student (and from other students previously) to create, according to that student's needs and knowledge, a customized road map for arriving at the individual's educational objective. Knewton does this by assessing in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
to be more creative, to work faster and produce more,” she explains. “It reminds me of watching a cow give milk. People forget that it takes time for the cow to graze before you ever get any milk. The challenge, then, is to create a... View Details
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details