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- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
notion that all entrepreneurs were born geniuses genetically predisposed to be creative, even reckless, visionaries. He insisted that it was more perspiration than inspiration: find an existing need that demands a product or service solution, conduct research and due... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
companies now find their best customers in China and India, where U.S. technology products are in high demand. More importantly, the free flow of ideas and capital have created entrepreneurial hot spots around the globe, challenging venture firms to follow or 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 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
No Mistake About It: Trust Is Key in Learning It's a real Catch-22: Learning is more critical than ever to firm success, yet the process often requires making mistakes. And many people believe mistakes lead to failure and thus avoid View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 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
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
Obviously, there's a huge amount of consumption in jobs that are at risk now because people are not spending money in the same way. On the other hand, I think work from home is a great analogy: Just like we'll probably continue working in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
the world take big risks but also work harder than anyone else. Luis Robles (MBA 2010) X-Star Partners A Dream Redefined We first met Peter Szulczewski when he was working on a neat concept called ContextLogic. He had built contextual... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
tempered by substantial risks for businesses and investors looking to cash in on China’s economic renaissance. Over the course of the three-day Global Leadership Forum, twenty HBS faculty members and thirty U.S. and Chinese business... View Details
- 26 May 2011
- News
A Prescription for 2011 Graduates
- 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 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
guiding clients through the intricacies of risk management. “In this market, even more than in a bull market, clients need a ŒSherpa' to help them navigate,” she explains. “And that's what I enjoy doing most.” When Erdoes wants advice,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
employees. So that's on the S side of ESG. G, governance. This is really how a company behaves. What are their standards for leadership? What's the makeup of the board? What are their risk controls, shareholder rights, voting rights,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
economically and politically—to go forward with the kind of fiscal stimulus that might be needed then? So I worry that we’re at risk of “fighting the last war.” History is a wonderful teacher. Many of the lessons from the Great... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
doubled to approximately $275 billion annually. But the Golden Age of Philanthropy, as some began to call it, risked spending much of that money unproductively. Of the nation’s more than 1.2 million nonprofits, most operated on shoestring... View Details