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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
and children. But part of the transition, which continues into our own time, has been political and social. From the Boston Tea Party to the civil rights boycotts, consumers have used their buying power to express dissatisfaction with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
at doing the job and also have the diversity characteristics you’re looking for,” Weckert says. “Sometimes it takes a long time to find those people and you have to work really hard at it. But if you have that belief, it is possible.” Sponsor future leaders. “You need... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups
concepts and pitches, until the next round of NVC starts. “That’s when we’ll be right there to help them apply,” she says. “HBS puts a lot of focus and energy into supporting the entrepreneurial spirit. We want to keep that momentum... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and the venture capital community; and on the flip side of my life, I’ve applied them when working on global poverty and inner-city education situations. HBS really showed me how to apply those skills to some of the biggest problems facing the world.” View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
hours has been right here." Snapshots from the conference follow. Problem: Air Traffic US airport congestion ranks with the world's worst, with more than 25 percent of flights arriving more than 15 minutes late, says advocacy group... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
or adaptive organism, there are changes. Karl Marx, while he was wrong about almost everything, was actually right on at least one thing — the labor theory of value. What matters most is the people in your company, more than the capital,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
"I'm mindful that to make the most impact, I will need to choose one as my focus, and discard the other—at least for now," she says. She has always been cognizant of expectations. One of the youngest women to attend Harvard Business School in 1975, Langer arrived View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
and alternative energy development. China is capable of steady growth over the coming years and will continue to be a key component of GE's global strategy, he added, provoking a question from one audience member regarding the propriety of doing business in a country... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
with gross margins of 75 percent. Right now, we’re basically gross profitable, and we hit a gross margin of about 50 percent at one point before we chose to reinvest in editorial. Now I’m hiring two to three editors and more premium... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
technical gobbledygook, as I like to call it. Basically, this was a well-maintained company. They had all the right proper protections and policies and what have you. And they have a HVAC system, and it needed to be serviced, and so the... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
doctors and therapists tell me that pregnancy and being a mom wouldn't even be possible given my medical condition. For me, it's a reminder that your beliefs, what you choose to believe, are really, really powerful. You know Henry Ford was View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
because of—the challenge: “It was basically a small manufacturing company but with an output of one product each time, because every unit we process is unique,” he says. “With each garment, there are 20 opportunities for us to screw up—maybe we didn’t schedule the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Hierarchy's Last Stand
that they were never in the direct presence of anyone who disagrees with them. Aides, flatterers, bodyguards, or censors could buffer them against the unpleasant or absorb attacks by proxy. But in the digital age, criticism and challenge go View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
leadership programs stop right on the cusp of that, and we want you want to go beyond that.” To reach that plane, Lim and Overwater welcome participants to the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Conn., a rural oasis away from the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
prize is a set of steak knives, and third prize is you’re fired. In these markets, the most important thing is to be first, to win that Cadillac. If you’re not that leader, there’s little room to build a great business. If someone were to build a new search engine... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
succession” is just waiting to happen. — HBS professor Joseph L. Bower is author of The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning (HBS Press, 2007). Reprinted from The Wall Street Journal © 2007 Dow Jones & Company. All View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
do that—game on.” “Chicago is a relevant story because it came from a point of relatively little entrepreneurial activity after the fallout from the dot-com crash and managed to develop a vibrant ecosystem,” Meyer said in a post-event interview. “I think there’s a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the 200 customers. After executing on this first step, the View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
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The Power to Change
right away. He was with E Ink for 12 years, six as CEO, guiding it through multiple near failures to runaway success. The company sold in 2009 for $215 million. Wilcox then followed through on a fatherly promise to his wife—and former... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor
outstanding private-sector success story: Professor Kanter. Samuel F. Heffner III (MBA ’70) Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Right Wing, Left Wing, West Wing HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter cites 25 years of right-wing ideology as contributing to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services