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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative HBS-China initiatives. “There was a two-lane road between the airport and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
HBS and a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “Back then, when you started a business in your garage on Boston’s Route 128, your competition was down the road or in Silicon Valley. Today your competition... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
desire, the demand, for high returns on invested capital can break down many a prejudice. That is the road the United States has been travelling—too slowly—since Carnegie's time. View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. It’s trendy to say that Silicon Valley is over—that this place and the philosophy that it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
On February 1, 2016, a line of First Nations drummers in traditional regalia—elaborate headdresses, each cheek bearing two red streaks—entered from the rear of a packed hall at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Hewlett and David Packard, made their first product, an audio oscillator. And it was here that Scott D. Cook (MBA '76) [click here to see a profile on Scott Cook from the February 1997 HBS Bulletin] created the world's most popular... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
panels. Instead, the panels would need to come from Asia — a considerable challenge for an eighty-employee company based in suburban Boston. Sharpe’s response was equally direct. ET partnered with a company based in Singapore and shipped it panel pieces to be assembled... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
of bits and pieces that we’ve been working on into a coherent scaffold,” says Hawkins. “It helps orient us and helps us think about our research and where to go next.” VP of Research Subutai Ahmad also employs the puzzle analogy to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: The dark neon of late 70s and early 80s Miami has long been one of pop culture's favorite... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
number of competitors increases. Greater rivalry reduces the incentives of all competitors in a contest to exert effort and make investments. At the same time, adding competitors increases the likelihood that at least one competitor will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
KHANNA: “The countries are inverted mirror images of each other.” Lots of books have been written about modern China and India, but nearly all deal with one or the other — not both. HBS professor Tarun Khanna set out to fill the breach... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
dry—contraband in the eyes of Poland’s Communist government, which approved all publications in the country. Maj held his breath as an officer of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa—the secret police—walked by the entrance to the alleyway. It was sometime after 2 a.m. View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
For the school that so boldly launched the MBA 100 years ago and went on to become the bluest of blue-chip brands in business education, it seemed only fitting that Harvard Business School should mark its centennial year by examining the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
others. The flip side of that, he said, is joy in the success of others, where "immediately, where one succeeds, the other members of the community celebrate because they believe that means they, too, can be View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
Corporation, a company he founded in 1995. Asked to share his perspective on the Internet, Bricklin says, "Most people don't understand it. They fail to grasp the capabilities of its underpinnings." He likens the Net to a primitive View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
the inside, in their hearts and minds, they are all just like you and me. The Island of the Fours Ps: A Modern Fable About Preparing for Your Future By Ed Hajim (MBA 1964) Skyhorse The Island of the Four Ps, a spinoff of Ed Hajim’s bestselling memoir, View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
for themselves? They say it causes them more stress not to be connected all the time. They don’t want a night off, especially if they’re on the road and there’s nothing else to do. They worry about someone... View Details