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- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application storage systems. It also shows how Coughran assembled an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
companies and nurtured numerous leading-edge products in a wide range of areas, including information technology, health care, telecommunications, and software. In achieving all that, it has also set the standard for integrity in every... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
solution that doesn’t impose any restrictions on who can own a firearm, according to the co-authors of the study, Harvard Business School professors Deepak Malhotra and Michael Luca, and doctoral candidate Christopher Poliquin. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
faced a tough decision: should they pass the bill and gamble with the untried insurance fund, or should they go seek a more traditional solution to the state's banking woes? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
School Case 310-011 Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
for example, filters down to retailers or health care providers in any useful or timely way. There is some forward movement, though. Lefkowitz notes that the Department of Homeland Security began sharing threat data with private industry... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
SAAS solution for small businesses to introduce machine learning by text to their business finances’ (or something like that). The folks we met on Shark Tank made things like a container for your sandwich so it doesn’t get soggy in a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
setting of eleven "wiki-like" programming contests, where contest submissions are open for reuse by others, each involving more than one hundred contributors and several thousand attempts to generate, over a one-week period, the "best" software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
companies, hoping to empower black workers. In 1999, it had purchased a 5% stake in LeisureNet, a white-owned and -run South African company that operated health clubs globally and was seeking a BEE partner. Surve hoped to eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
sacrificing his health or family life. In this article he presents six of them. Know your comparative advantage. Focus not on what you do best but on what your organization most needs from you-and don't spend too much time on operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law enforcement, breaking down barriers and building bridges between communities, and voting and civic... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
to solve the organization structure problem. The solution will be derived through analysis of the first of our four Cs: customer definition. Using an "outside-in" approach, we will start by designing units that work most closely... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the power to impact the health of millions rallied the team, recalls Jon Puz (MBA '08), a director of account management at the health-care consultancy Carol Corp. (Puz continues to serve DFA in an advisory role; DFA's original team also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
to some. “He asked tough questions, even hardware-related stuff,” DU alum Surbhi Sarna told Bloomberg Business last year. “...He was giving us design ideas.” Draper invested in Sarna’s nVision Medical, a medical device company for women’s View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
pandemic, we have seen firsthand the divide in our nation. The majority of citizens have been able to work from home and prosper. At the same time, millions of individuals (especially those in our industry) have been harder hit by this pandemic and extremely challenged... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations and established as... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
evolving cyber threats. Rothrock lays out his solutions in his latest book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?, and we talk to him here about what that looks like in real terms—and why the C-suite should... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Complete Table of Contents March 2019 The Merchant of Osaka A demographic time bomb is squeezing Japan’s economy from all sides and threatening the future of its health care system. Kanoko Oishi has bet her career that she can help defuse... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
justify the investment. While HBS remains a leader in the field, Nohria observed that “you need to worry when the health of the whole field doesn’t look promising, even when you are at the top.” The third interpretation of inflection... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson