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- 04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby
impact and the number of people. I'll give you an example. In New York state, the horse racing business, they employ over 40,000 people. And the economic impact is above $5 billion every year. So it's an engine that really, I think,... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Albertville, France—but I was sure there were more. Who were they? When I saw a list of about 200 Harvard College Olympians, my zeal to compile a list of HBS Olympians was awakened. I turned to the marvelous search engine on the HBS Web... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
inefficiencies and waste in a business where every penny really does count. Did you ever expect to be in the retail industry? No, never. I was trained as an electrical design engineer and spent four years in venture capital after leaving... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
realities of the pandemic.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Bridging the Gap Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic A For-Profit Business that Makes Education Accessible Community Colleges as Engines of Opportunity View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
buy key words and use search engine optimization. There’s social media, too. Kimpton has a Facebook page, and a lot of our chefs use Twitter. We haven’t spent money on national ads to date, since we’ve been pretty effective through word... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
delivery truck outside with its hood up and the engine in flames. "He was such an entrepreneur that he ran out with a blanket, extinguished the fire, grabbed the racks of bread, and hightailed it back to the store. It's funny, but... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
falter? What sets successful founders apart from those whose new ventures fail? Starting in 2008, I set out to interview hundreds of highly successful entrepreneurs in depth, hoping to reverse engineer what had led to their outsized... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
do since I was a little kid. When I was younger, I thought engineering, math, and science were most important and that the rest didn’t matter. Now I realize exactly the opposite is true. Engineering is important if you want to make... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon Valley became a talent magnet. And historically, when these big... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Koehn, with a presentation titled "Managing Change in the Third Industrial Revolution." Koehn galvanized the gathering with an interactive lecture and slide presentation that drew lessons from business history and focused particularly on the examples of 18th-century... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
and an internationally renowned authority on competitive strategy, has vivid memories of his days as a student in Christensen’s Business Policy class. Speaking at Christensen’s memorial service, Porter looked back on his struggles as a young, somewhat tongue-tied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
incorrect paperwork, the IT team programmed an electronic “poka-yoke” (a term from lean manufacturing in which an engineering solution prevents a mistake) that keeps a mailing label from being printed unless the bar codes on the SmartPak... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so one of the advantages of being in a conglomerate is you can see trends earlier, right? So if you go back to 2004 and 2005, I could see, like, energy efficiency in our appliance business. I could see fuel efficiency in our jet engine... View Details