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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Christensen Awarded Kim Clark Fellowship
honesty, compassion, and conviction. As HBS Dean from 1995 to 2005, he was an inspirational leader and had a profound influence on the School." At a September event at Oxford, a panel including Christensen, Clark, and other academics... View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
A summary of selected new research by HBS faculty. Diversification Best Bet in Emerging Markets In today's era of global competitiveness, companies in the industrialized world have slimmed down their operations in order to focus on doing... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
be pleasantly surprised at how much employees would be willing to pay for access to the service. —Richard Ventura (GMP 20, 2016) One needs to be careful since this is one of many different benefits available... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
I ALWAYS REFER TO myself as the accidental publisher. My dad's side of the family has owned the paper since 1896. But my mom divorced my dad when I was six, and we moved to Arizona. My dad had no real presence in my life. I came up in the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
towards digital experiences that enhance customer engagement. In an interview with Black Enterprise, Williams-Sonoma Vice President and Head of Strategy & Business Anddria Clack-Rogers Varnado (MBA 2014) said, “Technology has always been... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Maurice Pinto, MBA 1960
During his service as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in Ulm, West Germany, Maurice Pinto received an HBS admissions application in the mail from his father. "My father was always a big believer in education," says Pinto, now a semiretired... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
which he started in April 2016, puts his business experience to work, managing everything from roads and cemeteries to libraries and sewerage systems. Within the organization, Gower has focused on increasing workforce morale and fostering... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
on agribusiness, the term with which he has become synonymous. He currently teaches a food policy and agribusiness course at the Kennedy School, the Agribusiness Seminar at HBS, and a University-wide seminar View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
significantly. However, we remain a service organization helping entrepreneurs with disruptive technologies that create or transform business. KPCB has always focused on biotech and information technologies.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
working at CDI," she says, "because of its focus on growth-related projects and the exposure I'll have to many industries. I'm especially interested in multimedia and entertainment - it's a whole new world out there." For Minto, who has... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Good Day, Sunshine
Beautiful, sunny autumn days provided a spectacular backdrop for eighteen hundred alumni and guests who returned to HBS for fall reunions. Members of the MBA Classes of 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, and 1974 spent the first weekend of October renewing old friendships,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
niche advertising. But these marketers realized the best way to create cachet for a young audience was to make it inaccessible and let the kids discover it on their own. So classic marketing wisdom doesn’t View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
our characters to consumers. But we were short of cash. As a result, our movie licensing deals with studio partners were not always to Marvel’s advantage. Coming out of bankruptcy is like finishing chemotherapy: You are theoretically... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
workers always being “on”? There’s lots of evidence that working more doesn’t necessarily mean working better. With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
always try to bring my financial common sense to bear on it. The art of theoretical model-building is to make good abstractions that also capture the essence of the world that you're trying to explain.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
call “extreme extrapolation comfort,” which is the belief that if something happens for a little while, it will happen forever. There were times when we should have known we were approaching the subprime debacle, but when, exactly, the bubble would burst was View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
In a Modern Love column for the New York Times called “She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box,” Genevieve Kingston writes that she shared a birthday with her mother, Kristina Mailliard (MBA 1981), who loved to arrange elaborate parties every February to celebrate:... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
for- and nonprofit organizations and on athletic teams. But as most football players have learned at the expense of an angry coach snarling in their ear, in all of these varied settings, the fact that every other member of the team still... View Details