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Creighton Taylor
to a market proved “enlightening – I had never been to a market where people really vie for your attention, where there’s truly hard bargaining.” On a trip to a rural village a couple of hours outside Accra, Creighton saw what it meant... View Details
- 14 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code
have found a lot of support and made some terrific friends. We have chosen to live off campus to ensure there is still a separation between school and our lives together which has worked well for us, but we also know couples that are... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
someone found a candle, and the IV was inserted by the light of a flame. “It’s simple: health care improves dramatically with electricity,” she says. Poindexter tells such stories with astonishment because she wasn’t aware of the extent of the problem until just a... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
200 food banks, the organization has access to surplus food donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country. "The nature of our work means that we have been tightly coupled with the food industry," he notes. "But we are... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year, unrestricted grants coupled with... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
agenda for the next few years. One of the ways I have spent my last couple of months is to talk to a large number of individuals—faculty, staff, students, alumni—and just trying to absorb ideas about different things we might do. I first... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
me a lot of leeway. He became a great mentor--still a good friend now. And so, I was able to create the interactive division at the very beginning before the commercial internet. I did the first deal with AOL and VH1 that funded the interactive division. And then it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Musing of Gilmore Tostengard by Gilmore Tostengard (MBA 1953) (Outskirts Press) This book tracks Tostengard's lifelong journey from small-town Minnesota to Arizona with a couple of oceans and numerous stops on the way. Great Inventions... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
couple of conclusions that ultimately made us change our model. Scott Randall HBS MBA '87 founder and CEO, FairMarket First, we took a good look and said that ultimately it would be hard for us to become experts in multiple verticals. You... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
sufficient to just interact with the person with whom you want to do business. You would need to get acquainted with the other people in this person's network because that could improve your level of perceived trustworthiness. Couple this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
started their business, their product line enjoyed little consumer awareness outside New York City. But the couple was determined to build a large market for premium cosmetics. One of the earliest and most important decisions that the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
why the company decided to part with 1,800 Intuit employees, or about 10 percent of its workforce: The company was redirecting staff to two “big bets” in AI. These examples, coupled with tracking data showing tech layoffs moved from... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Devil Wears Prada, who is ambitious and gets sucked into a cutthroat job that starts to change her for the worse. "This kind of thing happens. You take a job because you want to pay back student loans and earn some management exposure, and you say you'll only work... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Arthur Rock
recalled. “Of that, I was absolutely sure.” One of Rock’s sternest tests came in the late 1970s with his introduction to Apple. It was hardly an intuitive coupling for Rock but he knew Mike Markkula who had been Intel’s marketing vice... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
policymakers – from the former First Lady of Costa Rica, who spearheaded the country’s national decarbonization plan, to the NYT Travel Editor – we get to engage with a variety of people all thinking about climate issues. There have also been a View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
couple of decades. But the transformation only really hits home when you begin to recall the details of the 1977 business landscape. Sears was where America shopped, as was Montgomery Ward and W.T. Grant. Wal-Mart was nowhere on our radar... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
importance of values and standards in business and the role leaders play in articulating them. Fifteen years ago we began teaching a required course called Leadership, Values, and Decision Making. Last December, after a couple of years of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
CDO²s. That, coupled with the increase in subprime mortgages—from $96.8 billion in 1996 to approximately $600 billion in 2006—created a recipe for economic disaster. The exercise clearly shows how the sensitivity of tranches to error in... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
client responds with, "It's good, but we need it less smoky and more gutsy." The client knows precisely what that means, but BBA flavorists find the request difficult to interpret. The result is more frenzied activity as BBA struggles to adjust the flavor in... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel