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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
overtones," Nichols recalls with a hearty laugh. It seems that on her first day at the School, a male student asked her how she could feel good about enrolling at HBS. Wasn't she depriving a man, probably one with a family to support, of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
struck every quarter hour. He liked it, and a few years later found that he had four more clocks to put into storage when he journeyed from Switzerland to attend HBS. “That’s probably not typical for someone just graduating from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the companies that we fund. They're the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
worried about those credits failing. Layne: What can people look for in terms of signals right now, with the Fed trying to keep inflation under control and things not progressing quite as quickly as they probably would have liked?... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
not saying people can't do it, but if something is going to be scalable to the millions of workers who will be entering the system in the coming years, that idea doesn't work as a core strategy." Participants in the system can view their account at any time and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
capriciousness of markets lately, we have also as a class had a full dose of the capriciousness of corporate power, in the form of mergers, acquisitions, reengineerings, and downsizings. (Indeed, we probably fostered some of the caprice.)... View Details
- 11 May 2018
- News
Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact
recently visited Andela headquarters, which Sulyman recounts as an inspiration: "When you have someone who is probably considered the most important person in tech physically standing in your office telling you about how he believes in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
afford to pay their mortgages but walk away from the property instead. (Boston Globe, December 22, 2009) “How predictable was it five years ago that probably well over 90 percent of pictures are taken off smartphones?” — Jim Balsillie... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
Watertown, Massachusetts. The company builds systems derived from innovative electricity-delivery technology developed by an MIT professor (Boston Globe, February 22, 2010). While initial applications — Giler thinks they will be ubiquitous in five years or so — will... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
year; probably more," the group leader replied. "But cost is not so much the point here. If we don't make this move, we'll get killed by VisiDat—or some other competitor we don't even know about yet. Imagine if SAP introduced a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Learning About Leadership
you learn what senior leadership behaviors don't work. “One thing that really didn't work was company leaderships that over-promised and under-delivered––every business has risks––and company managements that feel comfortable and are View Details
Keywords: Finance
- Portrait Project
Craig Maughan
opportunities they need to succeed in life? On reflection, probably not. As much as my parents gave me, they fell short (so did their parents). But along the way, others helped me fill in the gaps. That’s why I will spend my life giving... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
A factory worker uses company time and materials to fashion a lamp he will take home for personal use—an artifact called a "homer." The practice is probably illegal and clearly against written company policy. If discovered, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
both my business and my teaching. Entrepreneurs are often solely focused on trying to sell as little of their company as possible to an investor. If you take that logic to the extreme, it means you're probably going to end up selling to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
in 1995, Schwartz inaugurated an annual gallery trip to New York to purchase contemporary art for HBS — an ongoing tradition that continues to change the look and feel of community space where students, faculty, and staff come together. While a visitor’s first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
occurred when a CT scan of Dad’s belly showed a “spot” on his liver. “It’s probably a benign collection of blood vessels,” his doctor told me. “But it is something we’ll watch closely.” I was able to tell her of a similar, earlier... View Details
- 10 Dec 2015
- News
The Most Powerful Woman in Chinese Entertainment
past, one of the biggest disconnects the studios face is that they never really know, in a detailed, comprehensive way, who is coming to see their movies. Even the filmmakers would probably like to know this — how old are they, where are... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
sorts, on an epic scale. “If you have a local leader who is from your social category, you are probably more likely to approach him or her for help.” As Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and her colleagues discovered, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
these firms will soon be acquired at a sizable premium, and the involvement of the activist increases the probability that this will happen. Thus, hedge funds are better at identifying undervalued companies, locating potential acquirers... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sylvia Ko
physical constraints. My family could not afford travel, but I explored places you probably never heard of. I was on bed rest, but I led armies to conquer empires. My peers on the playground teased me for having “squinty eyes and yellow... View Details