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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
extensions that would justify the heavy investment necessary to build a brand outside of Amazon. The question is whether there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Should Humpierres risk leaving Amazon in order to retain more control of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Alzheimer’s research. At McCance’s urging, they based the organization on venture capital principles: locate visionaries and invest in them; run a lean, frugal institution; and take the View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
terms of direct practical benefits.” But report-writing courses were dogged over the years by confusion about what they should accomplish and how; shifting standards of evaluation and grading; faculty... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
sustainability risks and opportunities, has heard from a major technology company that they are considering the availability of renewable energy resources in site selection. “It has moved from being tenth on... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there’s broad agreement that the industry’s transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A new industry emerges Not so long ago,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
explains, “Intel and a number of other exciting companies were just getting started, so there was considerable interest in smaller businesses. I wanted to be part of that ferment, and the View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair game. I went for flexibility... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
risk of not being effective is a missed opportunity. It’s a very wide bandwidth you have to operate in, and it’s a challenging to stay within both ends of that spectrum.” View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Davin Chow, Adam Prewett, and Kevin Yttre (all MBA ’08). Tripsas, who teaches the Linear case in the elective Leading Innovative Ventures, sees the instructive qualities of flexibility, experimentation, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
How did we get into this mess, and how do we fix it? Those were the key questions that three separate expert panels — two convened by HBS and one by Harvard University — addressed for standing-room-only... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
especially dangerous when you’re first starting to work on new ventures. Part of you wants to get something done, to make that first deal or investment, in order to break the ice and get started. Yet if you give in to FOMO, you View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
market-segmentation scheme for reconfiguring your offerings to reduce costs while delivering new value to customers; lessening innovation risks with strategic experiments and alliances with customers; View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Advancing Opportunities for Others
I had to ask myself, ‘What risk are you taking? You've been doing this for 20 years; you're good at it; you can do four or five deals in a week; and no other company knows that you're working on any other... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
harder than her male classmates to succeed. From her father, a Hungarian immigrant with no business training who bought New York City's Chelsea Hotel and turned it into one of the Big Apple's most famous addresses, she learned to take... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
owner is going to find himself in big trouble and risks going to jail. And, yes, there is a standard definition of profit, and everyone knows what it is. I listened to this.... View Details