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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the nation's top consulting View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Women Entrepreneurs Share Insights at WSA Conference
venture capital. Two years later, she sold the firm, Rubric, Inc., for $366 million. Securing the venture-capital investment was a major challenge, she told a capacity crowd gathered for the fourteenth annual Dynamic Women in Business... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a rural development project in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s most View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
practices for creativity in all human enterprises. Infused with the energy of the Zanders' dynamic partnership, the book fuses Ben's extraordinary talent as a mover and shaker with Rosamund's genius for creating innovative paradigms for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
gathered from interviews with senior executives at about five hundred major companies in China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Deshpandé and his team discovered that many of the "strategic levers" essential to high performance in Asian View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
for example? Are they talking about labor practices? Are they talking about cost? What are the issues on their minds? You can even use that minute-by-minute information to create a dynamic map. The caveat is that you might get a biased... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
customers; selecting the right entrepreneurial marketing path; getting from the early stage to the mainstream in the market life cycle; and executing effective sales and marketing strategy in a dynamic environment. Former student Patricia... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
2020 Thomas J. DeLong. All rights reserved. A Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice, Professor DeLong is co-chair of the Executive Education program The Reflective Leader, developed specifically for mid-career MBA alumni. Learn more at... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
for the limitless possibilities associated with California and the West. And in keeping with the entrepreneurial dynamism that is so much a part of today's information technology explosion, "the City by the Bay" has always been a magnet... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” dynamics in a category as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
$27 trillion — just over 9 percent of total global financial assets. Already in 2007, Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds had moved to invest in Western financial companies, including Barclays, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
will be missed. Bob Rosenberg (MBA 1963) As one the few HBS students coming out of the department store business, I was drawn to Walt for his knowledge, common sense approach to business issues, and wonderful sense of humor. He was E-section’s marketing professor and a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
entrepreneurship in its state-owned enterprises; the Japanese government is challenging its own telecom monopolies; and wireless technology in South Korea and elsewhere on the Pacific Rim has leapfrogged U.S. advances. In this dynamic... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
strengthens the value of the HBS learning model for all our students," he notes. Other faculty members agree that diverse classes form the cornerstone of excellent courses. "Diversity of all kinds is the basis upon which dynamic case... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
HBS, is a noted authority on leadership, strategy, organizations, and human resources. His new book is particularly relevant to leaders of nontraditional firms who may or may not be technology experts but who need to have the ability to... View Details