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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
it? Tech didn’t always have a gender diversity problem, at least not by the numbers. In the early days of the industry, when computers were the size of rooms, not wristwatches, women had a significant presence in the field of computer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
abroad, it will return to the United States, where Smith envisions installing an underwater turbine farm in a larger venue such as Long Island Sound. A deployment of that size would power not hundreds but thousands of households—the kind... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
number of Harvard Business School Online courses, such as Global Business and Leading with Finance, as well as in a data science bootcamp designed to teach students how to leverage big data throughout their careers. The CPD team is also... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Their answers suggest that clean power will take off over the next decade or so, but hydrocarbon fuels will remain dominant. The E & E Club teamed up with the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) to host the receptions—one in New... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
We're all working as a team to beat the odds, and when we have a commercial success, it's like hitting a home run." "The era of the swashbuckler with a hunch who hits it big and goes broke on alternating Sundays has been the stuff of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
$100 million a year, and that he wanted a speedy resolution. “Speedy” turned out to be the better part of a decade. For much of the 1970s, McArthur fielded an all-star team (including future Secretary of State Warren Christopher and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
new to the firm: A majority of the team are computer programmers and developers, employing sophisticated algorithms to manage more than $275 million in assets. This active model would pit Alpha Architect against big banks, but with an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
a blue-haired magician named LeBlanc across the Fields of Justice, hurling spells at the enemy’s minions. He narrates the chaotic game, often profanely, as he and his four teammates confront their opponents, another team of gamers. Each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
built-in frustrations of politics and, all too often, inefficiency and bureaucracy. It’s a fact Mawilmada will reference obliquely but not dwell on, as doing so does no good. “You need to give Nayana full marks for coping with this,” says Madhura Prematilleke,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
1992) Adams Street Partners Paralysis by Analysis The opportunity I most remember passing on was a seed round in Ola, the leading taxi/ride-sharing company in India. The mistake I made was that I sized the market statically and failed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
build the Entrepreneurial Management team around full-time faculty drawn from diverse disciplines and perspectives. The wealth of backgrounds of its members facilitates this unit's ability to engage in intellectual cross-fertilization... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's top five banks. Led by a View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
has been growing 30 percent annually since 2006. In the years ahead, athenahealth announced, it would nearly double the size of its workforce, to some 5,000 employees. It would also further redevelop the 29-acre site by adding 150,000... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
something that I feel is really important and needs to be done. And there’s just a really deep satisfaction and pride in that.And I think that it spreads, it’s not just feeling proud about what I’m doing, but I end up feeling so proud about the View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
two CEOs agreeing early on about who will run the merged company. Members of the new top management team, he notes, should also ideally come from both sides if a spirit of partnership is to develop. "Immediately after the merger," Beer says, "the new senior management... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
75 Barclay Street by fallen debris, Joe Lhota, Giuliani, Kerik, and other city officials were stunned. "At first, we couldn't comprehend that the tower had completely collapsed," Lhota recalls. "We'd been standing with First Deputy Fire Commissioner William Feehan and... View Details