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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
Scott of Nantucket Nectars, once told Brown that the worst thing that happened to him was the best thing that happened to him. “Big mistakes can lead to huge personal growth, but also growth within your... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
retail sales will pass through a franchise chain; fully 96 percent of the American population has eaten at a McDonald's. Considering the astonishingly rapid growth of chains in recent years, it is not surprising that a comprehensive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Building Capacity in the Social Sector
"It's nice to seed growth like this. All I've really done is to start the plant." — Ferdinand Thun (MBA 1960) Looking back over the two-decade history of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), former director Laura Moon says "alumni... View Details
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
outcomes in the coming years. “I lead an organization called Cancer Research UK, which is, outside the US government, the largest cancer research organization in the world. And what that requires us to do is to think about every aspect of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)
potential to create a lasting impact on women, worldwide. As the lead developer at MOGUL, I coded the first version myself, using Ruby on Rails. It has been an incredible journey, to achieve significant user traction upon launch and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
who've emerged as leaders in education reform at a time when charters have experienced rapid growth and decidedly mixed results. Together, they form a chorus: The charter school movement still has great promise. But it will take better... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Madison Dearborn sold Fieldglass to SAP for four times what they had paid us—$1 billion. What a miss! In retrospect, the company had just begun its growth trajectory and market dominance. Moral of the story: If you have the opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
2018. The deadline to apply is January 22, 2019. Semi-finalists from around the world will compete in the live finale at the Rock Center on April 23, 2019. Leading up to this year’s event, we checked in with a few past winners to find out... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
portfolio of product lines, setting Novartis apart from its global competitors. Although initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a multinational pharmaceutical company, Vasella has triumphed. Three years ago he was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
that journey, with its sense of discovery heightened by refueling stops in remote areas, seems fitting for Corti. Today, as CFO of Nestlé S.A., based in Vevey, Switzerland, Corti, a Swiss native, helps lead a company that prides itself on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
program. Included in the presentation were progress updates on the MBA program’s three strategic priorities—invigorate our sense of purpose; center the education; and attract the most promising—and discussion of a market research project designed to determine long-term... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the developed world’s technology to the developing world. They see a new kind of cooperation emerging in the developing world,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
(subtitled How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership) includes new material intended to guide fledgling managers through specific operational issues, such as dealing with organizational politics, influencing peers and superiors, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
boost sales. —Lisa Putukian (MBA 1988) This is essentially a critical safety product in its present form: Every runner should have it. Dehydration leads to overheating, which easily leads to organ damage.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
your laptop and settle in to work—then you want a coffee. Instead of giving up your spot, you connect with a retailer on your phone, place an order, share your location, and the coffee is delivered to you. We’ll see more and more of these seamless technologies, View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and companies are kept... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
cancers and affect millions of lives. How did they reach this crossroads? The answer lies within a story that can be traced back to a chance meeting at HBS. In 1999, five months after enrolling at HBS, David crossed paths with Jen while walking through campus, View Details