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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
storyteller—I had been warned about that!—but rather to create an economic analytical framework that made sense.” As a starting point, he drew on Poorvu’s and Stevenson’s prior work, which focused on four elements: people, opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
may still lose market dominance. Drawing on observations from a variety of industries, HBS associate professor Clayton Christensen argues that otherwise sound business practices - such as concentrating investments and technology on the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
eat some grasshoppers, ensuring (according to local lore) that they’ll return to Oaxaca one day. Day 3: Oaxaca Site Visits MI CASA ES SU CASA: On site visits, student groups focus on different tracks (housing, water, retail), gathering information from local residents... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W. Thompson (MBA '81), Bruce W. Ferguson... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
it is the way people will adapt to and use that technology and the way firms will mobilize it to do smart business. As Rayport points out, "Internet-based businesses encounter the same management and marketing challenges that traditional... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
have to be affordable. “From day one, we said we would use common, off-the-shelf hardware—regular PCs and security cameras—to figure out how to solve the problem,” says Kundu. “We wanted to avoid the classic mistake of creating technology... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
"Many people want to spend their productive years doing something that they care about, and one way to do that is to work through the social sector on issues that markets alone don't always address," Childress says. A Two-Way Street While... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
ECY winners for more than 20 years. “We care about, and choose, companies that will hopefully stand the test of time,” says Druyan. “We look at market cap, growth, whether it’s a compelling business. Companies have to be fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
additional information about their socioeconomic background so that we can get a more complete picture of their financial need. Chad Losee: A key component of our overall efforts to create a more diverse and equitable community is to make... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
whopping $5.2 billion. In creating Staples, Stemberg drew on the knowledge of modern distribution techniques he had acquired during his twelve years in the grocery business. As a vice president with the Jewel Companies' Star View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
required MBA curriculum, raising new sensibilities about language among native and nonnative English speakers in HBS classrooms and beyond. Learn more about HBS faculty and their research at www.hbs.edu/faculty Anat Keinan and George Serafeim Jakurski Associate... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
while at HBS. First, he considered public markets and venture capital, but ultimately was drawn to working with a startup. To break into that ecosystem, Westphal worked on some small projects for startups during his first year at HBS. He... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
need,” Offensend says. EDC partnered with U.S. VETS to create a marketing strategy to reach out to the 19,000 female veterans in the Southern California area, through an online portal. Responding to how vets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
passenger can create his own climate zone. We customize our music and then implant the made-to-order entertainment directly into our ears. And what bigger marketing success have we seen in the past... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
industry and provides a comprehensive look at investor-centric marketing and fundraising strategy. Whether you work in hedge funds, private equity, or are aspiring to be part of one, you’ll gain invaluable insights into understanding... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
blind people through a network of associated agencies, NIB had once enjoyed a relative monopoly of the federal procurement market for its SKILCRAFT® brand of office supplies and some two thousand other products and services. But that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro, who encouraged Light’s growing... View Details