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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
against a backdrop of unusually sobering geopolitical events, including the attack on Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris and a suicide bombing at a police station in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet quarter, not far from the area where the students planned to conduct... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
process, just grueling. Public and, you know, Jack was like the most famous business leader probably in the history of the world. Because, you know, the markets were booming. He was really famous. And so, you know, it was all like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
and the ability to sift through the answers quickly, filtering potential dates by characteristics like age or location. Later came the algorithms, which used the information provided to predict the best matches, automatically showing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
as pursuits like marketing or law. RELATED HBSP Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures Immigration is such a hot-button topic in politics. Do you hold out any hope that your research can provide a more balanced perspective? I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
the real-estate business. One group deals mainly with variable costs, the other with fixed costs. Myth #6: Current market leaders can't fail. If they neglect the customer, Bezos said, they will. In addition, many business pioneers were... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
leading a class of 32 HBS students in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) on the Tech Startup Ecosystem in the UK and Europe. The featured panel of UK-based HBS alumni entrepreneurs, who shared actionable insights on how to overcome challenges amid View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
database (see Alumni Navigator) and the gradual transition toward a more robust directory featuring information about alumni similar to that which is collected for student class cards. Richard Decker (AMP 98, 1986) spearheaded the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
market share or whatnot and so the opportunity narrows. That was not the case with Cloudflare. A couple of years in we realized our opportunity had expanded and that we were thinking too narrowly. And that actually we should really think... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
building a global business strategy to establish markets in countries such as Russia and China, which American business interests had largely ignored. Starting out, he crafted a pan-European approach, believing his young audiences wanted... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
to their fellow students — business in Europe, health-care careers, and entrepreneurship, to name a few. The strong tradition of student conferences continued this year; below are highlights of a few of the myriad events held in January and February. More View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
University of Texas, freshman Michael Dell founded the Dell Computer Corporation. Today, the company is a $15 billion enterprise with 20,000 employees in 42 countries, serving some 8 market segments, including education, small business,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
courtesy of James Allworth “The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results. It makes no sense to let such finance-oriented, short-term pressures seep into the economy’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
market. So the future of Li & Fung is selling to the Chinese market, not just sourcing manufactured exports from China to the West. In fact, we expect to expand into selling to India as well. Those are the new markets of the world. How do... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
investing, and I wanted to explore those from an academic perspective,” Owusu-Kesse recalls. Looking back at his three years in graduate school, he notes, “Surprisingly, one of the business courses that helps me the most in what I do today was Professor [Anita]... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
was thoroughly engaging intellectually,” says Reade of her years in the investment business. “We were detectives, piecing together the information to figure out the value of basic businesses.” Ultimately, however, she felt dissatisfied,... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
support his family. He heard about the I Create program and signed up. Having noticed a growth in agriculture in the region, Samad was intent on finding his niche in the industry. After conducting market research and consulting with a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
leads a team?” By 8:30 Thursday morning, Foalea is ready. Today, she will shepherd the Startup Lockdown team through 12 to 14 intense hours of brainstorming, market research, and prototype building to test the business idea she settled on... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
now, but that could change in a few years when the markets are right. "We specialize in restructuring patents, carrying out further development work, then getting them into the hands of strategic buyers who can bring them to market."... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
occur differently in countries around the world. In his research, West investigates how a nation’s institutional systems may either facilitate or retard the development of biotech as an industry. Labor and capital market structures and... View Details