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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
which was expanding its model there. At KIPP—another network singled out by the 2013 Stanford study for positive learning gains—that meant recruiting strong management talent, building evaluation protocols for teachers and administrators,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
"dot nothings"; that legacy systems can be built upon; that the United States is the Internet leader; that PCs provide the only access to the Internet; and that English is the language of the Internet. Nolan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
pretty well on fine-tuning the product, and it took off quickly. Why do entrepreneurial ventures hold such appeal for you? I like creating and building things. I’m not much of an administrator, so simply View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
States. But he’s also a business-builder. Most recently, he was president of Novellus Systems Japan and VP and general manager of the Integrated... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
2004): Hi, my name is Torarie Durden, HBS class of 2004. The worst job I ever had was with a small business credit card company run by an enigmatic CEO who was a gigantic control freak, but also always felt... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
clerking for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. When, after World War II, Meyer left the Post to become the first president of the World Bank, he asked his daughter's husband to take over as the paper's publisher. "Neither I nor... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
Barco. The elder Barcos-he at the helm and she in control of finances-grew their business from a single tractor operation with a few landscaping jobs into one of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
serious belt tightening. Leaders of major companies looked around and had to make cuts based on keeping people and systems in place that were critical to the business. CFO? Have to have one View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
sweet spot; designing the offer to create customer value and secure differential advantage; integrating to serve the customer; and measuring what matters. Science Lessons: What the Business of Biotech Taught Me about View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
soon working side by side with its dynamic pastor, the Reverend Dr. Floyd H. Flake, to take Allen’s ministry outside the church walls. In 1986, after eight years as a senior executive at General Motors, Reed left GM to manage Flake’s... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
between a passion and analytical thinking. How is it that they managed to pull this off and what can we all learn from that example? Wasserman: I remember observing when I was teaching in HBS’s first-year course in entrepreneurship, that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
began to chip away at LEGO’s market share with its construction blocks, including a popular line of warrior play sets. “Their products are based on a building system very similar to ours,” explains Moynihan.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
prison. Studies by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics show that nearly seven out of 10 former inmates reoffend and return to prison within three years. The Reset Foundation tries to break that cycle by... View Details