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- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc
VisiCalc is long gone—but the tech industry has embraced lessons learned by its experience that continue to shape strategy and decision-making of engineers and executives alike. Among those lessons: First, new empires take shape at the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- News
Face Fears with Courage
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
negotiating licensing and royalty agreements. One key move involved persuading TV Guide, in exchange for increased royalties from additional sales, to carry free ads for stores that would sell the game. Drawing on his trusted contacts in the game View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Task Force
Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30 percent had a bank account and 10... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
of the capital stack to support others coming in on top of that, which might have higher return expectations? How do we assemble that so that we can hit both impact and investment outcomes? What other shifts in the industry are you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
process solutions has become clear. And it is driving new business creation, as well as traditional business adaptation, at far higher than previous rates. With the evolution of our great industrial and financial base, we may at last be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
should lead the charge on developing a non-beef burger.” —E. Jordan Taylor (MBA 2018) H&M Data point: “Last December, Forbes reported that the ‘apparel industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941–1945 by Michael Beschloss (MBA 1980) (Simon & Schuster) Noted presidential historian, author, and commentator Beschloss offers an insightful, comprehensive, behind-the-scenes View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And those were just the public... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Former French Finance Minister Joins HBS Faculty
Thierry Breton, former French finance minister, has joined the HBS faculty as a senior lecturer and will teach the first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability course this fall. Breton is well-known in France as former chairman of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
Gompers and Josh Lerner ask in The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth. The authors answer the chicken-or-egg question, showing that venture capital has indeed been a force in innovation — so much so, in fact, that by 1999 it View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
experience in the supermarket industry and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Bruce Harreld (MBA ’75) is applying his considerable experience as a strategic and marketing leader at IBM and as a speaker and writer on corporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Wyss: Thanks the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association for presenting him with the Beatrice D. Ellerin Alumni Achievement Award. Related Links 2007 Alumni Achievement profile Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
buyout plan, looking to trim 3,000 senior staff from its 45,000 employees in order to make room for younger hires. According to industry analysts, the moves are designed to protect and expand upon Fidelity’s status as the largest American... View Details