Personality - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

entrepreneurship as a trip on a roller coaster, not a rocket ship,” says HBS professor and entrepreneurship expert Bill Sahlman, an early investor in E Ink and longtime adviser to Wilcox. “Very few companies go straight up, and E Ink is no exception. It’s come close to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

management. Aileen Lee MBA ’97, Harvard University; BS, Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aileen is the founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage focused fund. They seek to back exceptional teams building technology that re-imagines work and View Details

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

Misery isn’t good for business, he says. “It doesn’t get the best performance from people. We want to create a sense of higher optimism.” Like Papalexopoulos—and every other HBS alum interviewed in Greece for this story—Macridis knows Mitsotakis either View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

31 Jul 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens

all of us know that person who will never decide on anything and strings us all along and those people are toxic. That's the second hand effect of the FOBO just like smoking. Morrell: We've identified what these forces look like. As a... View Details

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

Bradley’s personal involvement in its digital strategy and the recruitment of key positions is clear. But that success has been like the man himself—dramatic yet understated. The turnaround deployed two key tactics central to any... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

Milken's true impact had been. Was he simply a misunderstood financial innovator who democratized access to capital? Or was he driven purely by greed and by nefarious personal financial motives? Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

enabled retailers to do on a mass scale of millions of customers what shopkeepers did in their villages a century ago: offer a differentiated service to each shopper. Shopkeepers knew each one personally and treated them accordingly. If... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

brain-like?” And that, she says, is the key not only to better AI, but to a better understanding of what makes us human. When Dubinsky declares something to be the next big thing, it isn’t empty Valley bravado. She has worked at the forefront of View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

decision to launch a hedge fund in India, and the first years of the venture. It also profiles Nirva Patel and describes how they met, married, and managed the transition to a new life in Mumbai, including the impact on her career and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details