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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the 200 customers. After executing on this first step, the View Details
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
right away. He was with E Ink for 12 years, six as CEO, guiding it through multiple near failures to runaway success. The company sold in 2009 for $215 million. Wilcox then followed through on a fatherly promise to his wife—and former... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
outstanding private-sector success story: Professor Kanter. Samuel F. Heffner III (MBA ’70) Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Right Wing, Left Wing, West Wing HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter cites 25 years of right-wing ideology as contributing to... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
build an “abstract, modern glass tower” on a block adjacent to Grand Central Terminal. “The existing buildings in that area were designed to complement Grand Central,” he says. “The new development doesn’t. It’s all about ‘look at me.’ It may be a great project for the... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
tech startup producing stylish bracelets with an inobtrusive control button that can send text messages and GPS tracking to friends, a pre-recorded call to a specific phone number, or a direct connection to the police. “Flare gives you options to decide what is View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
iStock iStock As part of a special project, The New York Times asked several leading thinkers to weigh in on the nation’s most pressing problems. Specifically, the Times posed this query: “If you could do one thing right now to help fix... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
demonstrating grade level proficiency in mathematics. And it really said to us, this is possible. We can take these schools, even if they are deeply underperforming today, and by making these changes and working with a great team, these students can have access to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
(“Baby Blues”) and concentrated instead on cutting costs (by paring the workforce and closing plants) and expanding IBM's capability to help companies meet the full range of their computing and IT needs. Keeping IBM intact “was a big risk, but I never doubted it was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
business school, ultimately I think students come to learn how to be leaders in the business arena. Right now 5 percent of our graduates go to work in the nonprofit sector. To expect 20 to 30 percent is asking too much. Maybe we could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
accepting so many refugees just because it was the right thing to do. It was a humanitarian crisis they had to respond to, not some great economic opportunity. If this refugee crisis is going to be instructive in the future, what lessons... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
lives of others in a meaningful way. For spine surgeons, this most often involves alleviating pain and improving function. But this is also where the challenge comes in. Identifying the right procedure for the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Houston-based investment bank that specializes in the energy industry. The future oil shortage, he says, is a problem we should address right now. Based on your research, how soon will we feel the effects of the diminished Saudi oil... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
for Kibera (CFK), a pioneer in participatory development showing how with the right kind of support, people in desperate places will take charge of their lives and create change. Later, serving as a human intelligence officer in Iraq and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
stories, but humans have always been experientially driven. What’s new right now is the technology and the scalability that it offers.” Gnosis—MoFE’s latest Brooklyn, NY–based show—is a high-tech exploration of the timeless question, Who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
struggle or fail because they lacked legal basics like founder agreements or proper vesting and licensing arrangements." Funding "VC funding gets all the publicity, but it's not right for every startup. There are different ways to finance... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because the state provides "the property View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
us for years—even before we raised any money—in part because Jana Care is a very mission-driven company. That was an important lesson for us: Money is not the only motivating factor in a small company. If you can build the right dynamics... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
fight for “what was right and good” in books he’d read as a child, like Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. It was a way of seeing the world Singer absorbed from his parents and the synagogue they attended as a family in suburban... View Details
- 27 Mar 2023
- News
A Sporting Chance
and to be better, and it's a great tool to help them succeed in school, a profession, university, or whatever," he explains. Sometimes the biggest change isn't in the kids but in the parents. The more the young people succeed at their chosen sport, the more confident... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
religion. It’s important to them to do something really meaningful and to contribute to society right out of HBS. Our alumni are already leaders in this field, and I think that trend will accelerate. View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint