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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
firms and SEC regulations soon emerged. In 1972, Textron submitted a merger proposal, and ARD accepted. Two years later Doriot stepped down from active management of ARD but... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
wide range of experiences, opinions, and practical knowledge about cultivating leadership, entrepreneurship, and empowerment. Six panel discussions presented on the second day of the gathering stimulated... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
it's a lesson learned, it gives me something to take on the journey. So I can't say that there's anything that I would consider like a colossal professional failure. When I think about business failures, when I was at Viacom, I had the opportunity to help create a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Historically, public equities have been the anchor to growth in most of my clients' portfolios. After three years in a row of negative public-equity returns, which hasn't happened since 1939, I have seen growing frustration View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
running M&A and strategy for a public company and did 17 acquisitions around the globe. I think of it as kind of one of those best laid plans stories. Sometimes it doesn't work... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting
issue. What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked as an engineer at Ford Motor Company. I enjoyed working on projects and building things, but as I started charting out my career path, I... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
share the remaining 20 percent among themselves. For investments below $2 million, the XTV principals had sole discretion in whether and when to invest. For investments over $2 million, an oversight group called the View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 24 Jul 2020
- News
Reimagining Chicago’s Schools
high schools were really hard to crack.” At the time, Zaikos was working for the Chicago Public Schools system as part of the Broad Residency, a program created to bring management professionals into urban education, in an effort to... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very simply, what are you going to do for me?" says Solmssen,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
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A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library
to produce polarized materials, Land was counting on a new initiative to reenergize and propel the company’s growth in peacetime. 8 Land conceived of instant photography in 1943. While on vacation with his... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
philanthropy and a search for 'give us better practices,' " said Nancy Roob, president and CEO of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF). Joining her on the panel were Matt Bannick (HBS MBA 1993),... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
in the planning room one day when a US Navy SEAL walked in the door, and asked me if I've heard of Operation Red Wings. So we talked for a little bit, we opened up a map, and... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About
qualities. You were resilient. After all, not even COVID could stop you from coming to HBS. Resilience will give you greater confidence to attempt things that are difficult, and to take on challenges because they help you grow. You were... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
recalls. Nevertheless, he says, during that period "my daughter and I were very close. She loved the environment. It was one of the best things we could have done." After graduating from HBS, Jones worked at Prudential in San Francisco as... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
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Dana Hoffmann
your bills, it’s a great career choice.“ A chance call from a friend of a friend in Silicon Valley turned Hoffmann’s attention from tennis to Portico. The caller explained that he was in property management View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
and companies tax breaks, rebates, and higher-density building allowances for installing green roofs. Chicago, a national leader in green roof installation, now has more than 400 constructed or View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets,... View Details