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- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
International Development Harvard Business Review Press The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry structures are... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
share our customers’ passions, we don’t need to waste time wondering what they would like,” Jeremy Andrus says. Skullcandy employs 350 people, mostly young and male (think jeans, plaid shirts, and scruffy beards). The company’s product View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
earlier research: Star performers flame out when they change firms. “This goes against the popular belief that we control our own destiny,” says Groysberg, who credits Dean Nitin Nohria and HLS professor Ashish Nanda (PhDBE 1993) as “intellectual partners” in View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
businesses should set aside time to ask themselves what widely held assumptions—in their lives, organization, or industry—they might benefit from challenging or discarding. “The impact of this simple exercise,” he says, “can be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
in enterprise development through our incubator units in South Africa and Chile, which support over 220 freestanding businesses providing jobs to some 13,500 people. In South Africa, I’m also very proud that we have the largest workplace... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
don’t think we know all the ripples yet. What I do know is that Robinhood customers are upending this industry. That makes a lot of people who are considered the old mainstays of the stock market very nervous. Robinhood is changing how the View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Cambridge, for example, she served as a market research consultant, covering the telecommunications industry in Asia. Her strong interest in the region prompted her to seek a summer internship in the Philippines with Monitor Company, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
leading companies in the relevant industry sectors, then works to identify the managers most responsible for the success of the relevant business. We want to learn why a prospect may be an appropriate candidate before making the first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
How much is the Grand Canyon worth? What would you pay to prevent developers from building condos on the Cape Cod National Seashore? As difficult as it may seem to answer those questions, Linda Bilmes (MBA 1984) has made it her business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
is not failing to develop the technology, but figuring out how to get to market with it. How do you identify a prospect, make them a customer, sell them something, get out, have a happy customer, and make a profit? Pro bono work I've... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers. The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames Oneworld Publications As chair of the UK’s task force charged with developing an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge across View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with clients in the health care and... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
that there is a good local organization, a human rights organization within the countries, monitoring these arrests and these imprisonments. So we spent a lot of time monitoring them, trying to work with them as best we can, and then... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Welcome to the USA! You’re Hired! By Betsy Cohen (MBA 1978) Constead Press In this book author and economic development innovator Betsy Cohen presents wisdom from a dozen experts in career View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
Service, Success," a five-volume video series in which each video addresses a fundamental element of service management. A related topic, Achieving Breakthrough Service, also the subject of a video, has been developed into a weeklong... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
sandwiches on its own bread. We spent the next two years traveling the country attempting to understand the changes occurring in our industry and concluded that, like so many others, the food industry was... View Details