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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
cloud and edge computing. They show how to deliver truly intelligent, and potentially even autonomous, products with the more personalized and compelling experiences that today’s users, consumers and enterprises expect. The book features View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
even been overtaken by, market forces and finance? How big and how pervasive is the business of sports? Swinging for the Seats A recent Georgia Tech study put the value of the sports industry at $152 billion annually. But HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
status-symbol luxuries, like expensive watches or designer jeans. Why do consumers pay so much for products whose ingredients are well known to represent only a small proportion of the retail price? Beauty is certainly, as one recent View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
at HBS and author of numerous case studies and journal articles on impact investing. “To me, impact investing requires a tradeoff. You have to put the impact before the investment. Otherwise, these are just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
seen employ this kind of model. "DART is a pioneer. It is a case study for larger companies to follow." "It's almost like somebody has the ability to build the Panama Canal or a highway through the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
chairing a two-year study - conducted by the London-based International Institute for Environment and Development and considered a model for other industries — called "Toward the Sustainable Paper Cycle: The Role of Sustainable Forestry,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
offer convenience, decent prices, or an okay shopping experience. Even very good is no longer good enough. To win and keep customers today, retailers must be nothing short of remarkable. Packed with case View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
compared to before, I might have been at 6.4, 6.5, it's not an insane amount. I might have guessed that I was sleeping 20% or 30% less, and it's more on the order of 10% less. But it just feels like so much more. So I think there are a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
black person I have ever held a conversation with.” TED LEWIS grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied architecture and sociology, Lewis joined the Peace Corps, working for two... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
while for those in the industry, it is virtually synonymous with Goldberg himself. Recognized as the father of research and scholarship in the field, he is the author, coauthor, or editor of 23 books, more than 100 articles, and some 1,000 View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
FLEMING: Scientists make wrong assumptions about MBAs. PHOTO BY STUART ROSNER Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he “wanted to study more than electrons.” Even so,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake) before wading into nearby Greasy... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
equip and support entrepreneurs in Africa, through the process of starting and growing successful and resilient agriculture and food businesses that will transform the continent. Through case studies and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
their father ran successful textile and real estate businesses. Both parents believed in the importance of moral values, and in the fourth grade, the twins began studying at the Ethical Culture Society's Fieldston School. "Each week we'd... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
people,” Deshpandé says. The enterprising Bikram, born in 1946 in Calcutta and known worldwide by his first name, began studying yoga as a four-year-old. He arrived in the United States in 1971, opening his first studio in Los Angeles and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
mobility. To explore possible solutions, in another recent study Choudhury evaluated how policy changes around worker location in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) improved productivity. The USPTO employs about 8,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
death in a quantity equivalent to two grains of salt, has become a major factor contributing to the spike in overdoses. Last year, recognizing the fast-moving and shapeshifting nature of these and other alarming developments, Langford approached Georgia Governor Nathan... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse’s pathway out of poverty began with scholarships to study at excellent elementary and secondary schools, which prepared him for admission to Harvard College, where he earned a degree in economics in 2005. “Education made all... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg