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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell (Harvard Business Review Press) This fictional narrative about newly minted CEO Jim Barton allows readers to walk beside Jim as he takes on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
"Of course it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem cells." © Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks sealing the deals are not on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
bumpy at best. By 1977, two of the four founding partners had left, leaving Cohen and Maurice Tchénio (MBA ’70) to look for help. Cohen approached Alan Patricof, a pioneering New York venture capitalist, to join them. The firm—known as... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
companies worth $306 million since its launch in 2019. Moderated by Betsy Odita (MBA 1998), Executive Director of Ultra-High Net Worth Strategy at Morgan Stanley and Deal Co-Chair, Alumni Angels, HBS Club of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
theme of the panel discussion, “Taking Social Innovation to Scale,” Gergen added that the anticipated infusion of federal funds puts pressure on social enterprise organizations to deliver results. “It’s going to be a huge deal for social... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
businesses. He had a long association with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City and currently serves on the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Kiechel lives with his wife, Eugenia Dunstan, and their son in Hoboken,New Jersey;... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
MBA 1972J, and Thomas Lifson, MBA 1976H, for example); others recording only the details of one family’s life are comparatively unknown. But these blogs all share the virtue of allowing easy exposure to personal views about new swaths of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts onboard. In a new multimedia case, “Columbia’s Final Mission,” by HBS assistant professors Michael... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Understanding Southeast Asia’s New Business Frontier From cosmopolitan Bangkok and Singapore to the Sumatran rainforest, participants in the June 2017 HBS faculty immersion explored the diverse industries of Southeast Asia. “This region... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
countries, and economic forces that shaped the infrastructure for an unprecedented new era of technology. Beginning with the vacuum tube in the 1920s and progressing through the inventions of the transistor, the integrated circuit, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
"The motion has been made and seconded that we stick our heads in the sand." © Mischa Richter/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com If any business leader could stare facts squarely in the face, it would seem to have been Henry... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
taken by photographer Webb Chappell, who did his excellent work in the Stamps Reading Room in Baker Library. Sachin Jain To Your Health Jain “Starting when I was about six,” Sachin Jain recalls, “I’d watch the evening news with my father,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
timely service. Directly related to that approach are our new customer-oriented benchmarks for IRS performance: customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, overall compliance by each tax-paying sector, and continuous improvement. You've... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
kitchen, how it’s designed and how it flows is to help us achieve those really high throughputs. And some of the customer engagement you were talking about is really designed to help people understand and appreciate all the new things on... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
You launched in 2007, and 2008 was one of the worst years ever for retail, so you had a good deal of unsold inventory to offer customers. How did you adapt as the business environment became healthier and you saw a decrease in what was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
J. Fox (MBA ’69) (Jossey-Bass) Fox’s business parable follows a young New England paperboy named Rain as he learns the business of being in business and quickly becomes the best paperboy in town. A series of humorous vignettes illustrates... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
deal with an Italian distributor.” While working at Disney, Dick and his best friend from HBS, John MacDonald (MBA ’90), took a sitcom writing class at UCLA’s extension school. “My girlfriend at the time—now my wife of 18 years—told me... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna