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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water industry taking on development and operational View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
enacting its provisions, partly due to concerns over perceived risks to unsophisticated investors. Moreover, not all of the provisions will be enacted at once. For now, Callaghan and McGee are focusing on building iCrowd's technological,... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
opportunities and risks when evaluating investments. The technology classes gave me some subject matter expertise on the industries in which North Island invests. The general management and negotiations classes gave me a toolkit to manage... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
take risks you don't understand, you can destroy your business. What is the single biggest challenge facing corporate America? Wagoner: The global competitive environment. Certainly in the auto business, the competition is tougher and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
leaders exemplify the kind of intelligent thinking that Holt describes. They experiment and learn. And in a fluid environment, winners are those who know how to take risks but can cut any losses quickly, in order to take advantage of... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
within your control. In actuality, it becomes an exercise in relentlessly managing what you can control to reduce the risk of failure." What advice do you have for current HBS students, career or otherwise? "Attending HBS is an amazing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
things don't go as planned, remember to look in the mirror, and don't lose the learning. Leave everything better than you found it. Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland Take advantage of the fact that your MBA affords you the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
an economic crisis erupts, something that has happened with regularity. Nor does it stop governments from intervening at the risk of doing more harm than good. Few, it seems, learn from the lessons of history. In Ferguson’s view, the real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
satisfaction. The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You Really Need to Know about Our Most Controversial Food by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Lauson Publishing Inc.) This book raises more than 200 of the most common questions that come up about raw milk, the most important... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
with Digital Equipment Corp., for instance-was a way to make it big in this business," explains Elfers, who was in charge of the first investment portfolio. "But I felt that if Greylock were to be successful in the long run, we should be much more selective and View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
specified times, since plugged-in devices draw power in shut-off or “standby” mode. “The concept was so obvious that we decided to take the risk and do it,” Shibata says. The company had a beta prototype ready to go in 15 months; after 15... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game. The authors present a framework for rethinking business and operating models, explain how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
three days, though.’ Sometimes, confusion—even being shaken to one’s roots—can be a good thing.” Reasonable expectations: “In baseball, the best hitters average .330 or .370. You don’t have to bat a thousand to stand out, to be good at something.” Managed View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently engaged in an analysis of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
directors, we often discussed the reality that pushing rates up too precipitously would risk cutting off the recovery before we’re at full employment. I think Boston Fed economists would say that it would be great to operate in an economy... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Yoga clinic’s transparency helped establish trust with the community, reduced its risk of malpractice claims, and became the basis of the business. Now the clinic averages 180 patients a day (twice that during flu season), which... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
the program. A PRIMO fellow last summer, Castro, a psychology major at Harvard College, was born in Dallas and raised in Central Mexico. Paired with Assistant Professor Susanna Gallani, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit at HBS, Castro worked with her on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
meeting the expectations of security analysts. What’s wrong with focusing on the short term? If you do it long enough, it will destroy long-term value. You stop investing in R&D, stop being innovative, stop expanding sales forces, stop expanding into markets, and stop... View Details