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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Hollywood and Humility
WICZYK AND SATCHU: With Hollywood’s major studios increasingly risk-averse, a pair of HBS classmates finds a winning niche. Media Rights Capital (MRC) founders and co-CEOs Mordecai (“Modi”) Wiczyk and Asif Satchu (both MBA ’99) are among... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
of shirking—that my folks will shirk or not respond to me immediately. As human beings, we’ve been tuned for synchronous communication. We ask a question, we want an answer right now. But in a work-from-anywhere model, as Prashanth said,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones (AMP 184) (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors make six key recommendations leaders should follow to transform their organizations to attract the View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
balance between individual rights and society’s rights. How many more secret proceedings should we allow the government? What are we willing to do to make sure we don’t have any more 9/11s, and how many View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
tech startup producing stylish bracelets with an inobtrusive control button that can send text messages and GPS tracking to friends, a pre-recorded call to a specific phone number, or a direct connection to the police. “Flare gives you options to decide what is View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
iStock iStock As part of a special project, The New York Times asked several leading thinkers to weigh in on the nation’s most pressing problems. Specifically, the Times posed this query: “If you could do one thing right now to help fix... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
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Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
demonstrating grade level proficiency in mathematics. And it really said to us, this is possible. We can take these schools, even if they are deeply underperforming today, and by making these changes and working with a great team, these students can have access to a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
Chinese Capitalism, Rithmire examined urbanization, land politics, and property rights in China. She is now exploring how both the government’s goals and the flight of capital figure into China’s increasing global presence. “When we look... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
A Roundabout Path
Friedlander continues, “but telling the right story about it moves a company forward.” Realizing that he lacked the business knowledge to craft such a story with credibility and impact, Friedlander resolved to bridge the gap. He also knew... View Details
- 09 Jan 2017
- News
Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader
on the team. “For me, that’s when I saw that all this young man needed was somebody to point him in the right direction, and tell him that he could achieve some pretty amazing things. And so every year there were new goals that I put in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
After 27 Years at HBS, Shapiro Shifts Professional Focus
for his congeniality and wit in addition to his professional achievements. "I would never have accomplished so much or had as much fun anywhere else. But I know that if I want to do all the other things I have planned, I've got to start on it now. At 55, the time is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
she declares. “The School’s enthusiasm was instrumental in bringing other schools around.” Andy O’Brien, chief of operations at HBS, says the loan-fund projects would have been the right thing to do even if the economics had been less... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
WITH FUNCTION "People want to do the right thing, but they want to do it in style," says Camargo, who describes the ELR as a mix of "art and science." The early mass-market alternative fuel cars, he adds, used abstract designs to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
family’s next stop was California, where Whitney led a fundraiser for her sons’ new school. When she learned that the school was looking for a director of admissions, a new career dawned on her. She knew she was the right person for the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
build an “abstract, modern glass tower” on a block adjacent to Grand Central Terminal. “The existing buildings in that area were designed to complement Grand Central,” he says. “The new development doesn’t. It’s all about ‘look at me.’ It may be a great project for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
globe, and how it can be reconceptualized without being universalized. Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job by Jeffrey J. Bussgang (Harvard Business Review Press) Bussgang offers a practical, step-by-step... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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A Primer on Patents
product and so-called paper competitors who have intellectual property rights but aren’t involved in the industry in any real sense. This abuse of the system certainly wasn’t what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they gave Congress... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
struggle or fail because they lacked legal basics like founder agreements or proper vesting and licensing arrangements." Funding "VC funding gets all the publicity, but it's not right for every startup. There are different ways to finance... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because the state provides "the property View Details
- 06 Jan 2020
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Home Grown
Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details
Keywords: Finance