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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Nickelodeon and Univision. "We know," O'Reilly observes, "that other entertainment and sports interests are competing for these groups and that we can never rest on our laurels." Innovation can mean basics like reducing parking and... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
never stated. That phrase was beginning to grate. Somehow, despite its reluctance to change course, Westmoreland managed to limp along till the mid-1980s; and in all fairness, it had out-lived most of the hand-glass houses which had View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other sectors, such as education, where... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
entrants competing for a total of $17,500 in awards. The winning team, led by Lawrence Brewster (MBA '81), submitted a plan for an e-business in the health-care industry. Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA '98) and Daphne Dufresne (MBA '99) were... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
Photos by David Kelly Crow Many women hit a point in their career when they are unsure of which path to take next or even how to move ahead. For some, that inflection point comes mid-career or after a successful run; others are simply hopeful for a smooth return to the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 Dec 2010
- News
A Career Focused on Innovation and Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
understand how the world actually operated. The nicknames showed that he paid attention to us as individuals. He made us laugh with his exaggerations, and the more he acknowledged us in this way, the better we felt about ourselves and the more relaxed we were in class.... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
bigotry and bias. And I think the reason for that, is because unfortunately business leaders are sort of looking around and seeing that leadership isn't going to come from anywhere else. We're in this really precarious moment where the basic View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
and experience level would have in competing firms. It actually increased the number of contacts that the employer had inside those customers. The key personnel risk of a senior partner leaving and bringing their customers with them... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Although we were across the river that first year, in a separate environment, we were taught by HBS professors and churned out those cases just like any other B-School student. We got an equal education and were able to compete when we... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
opportunity. An organization cannot be a meritocracy when the small number of black employees spend a significant percentage of their mental bandwidth wondering, “Why aren’t there more people like me? Am I being treated differently?” These questions detract from a... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
For more than 50 years, Art DeFehr (MBA 1967) has been a fixture at Palliser, the Canadian furniture company founded by his family. He served as CEO of the 2,000-employee firm from 1984 to 2015 and continues to sit on its board. For the last half century, DeFehr has... View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- News
Investing in Experience
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
travel and work remotely have increased in number even as pandemic restrictions loosen and companies offer increased flexibility to compete for talent. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
IBM team pitched their superiors on the company building a computer that could compete on Jeopardy!. It was bold, even risky; Jeopardy! was the ur–game show of idioms and double meanings. Building software for natural-language processing... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
reasons. In general, the private-equity industry recognizes that it has to tell its story and compete in a marketplace of ideas. I think it’s pretty widely accepted now that private-equity firms have suffered in terms of being... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
of acquired knowledge and experience across regions and nations is a key to business success. And with dozens of wildly different markets and ongoing geopolitical rearrangements, she knows that, be it toothpaste or any other consumer product, it pays to be culturally... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
limits of human physical capabilities" by maintaining his Special Forces' exercise regimen and competing successfully in full-contact fighting martial arts tournaments. Jefferson retains a deep affection for the people of Hawaii, who... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
LovePop. You’ve been in front of VCs before. How does this experience differ? It’s so different. My experience with pitching VCs is in a much more casual environment. It’s at a coffee shop, at a conference room table—it’s never you standing in front of five View Details