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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship The Sweet Life: Paul Conforti at Finale Desserterie & Bakery. “Everything is a balancing act... you’ve got to be able to adapt.” Related Links A Growing Drumbeat Show Me the Money - or Not Cloudflare introductory video A Day at the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
skills, as HBS faculty and recent alumni explain in the following course profiles. Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Amar Bhide keeps a slide rule tacked above his office desk. "Although I don't use it anymore," he explains,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
on the enormous success of the event, last summer the Dean's Office invited Dobron to work full-time to refine and implement suggestions for improving campus life that were generated during the case discussions. "Our efforts were mainly... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
was hauled into the VP’s office and given a stern lecture regarding the evanescence of superstardom in product management if one didn’t sweat the details of each project. From that point on, I always insisted on getting my hands filthy... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
cross-cultural learning aspect to it that you can’t duplicate in the classroom, which is very much a part of being a global business school. That doesn’t mean putting a U.S.-born student in the Paris office of Goldman Sachs. It’s... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
black markets for narcotics, marijuana, sex, and surrogacy as well as the design of markets for kidney transplants in the face of widespread laws against (and broader repugnance for) compensating organ donors. I conclude with open... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Weeks later, a revolution erupted across the country as the Arab Spring swept through the region, and Azab spent the following years active in both the protests and in restructuring and expanding Hassab Labs. From 2011 to 2014, he opened... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
Founder or Chief Executive Officer of a U.S.-based company for at least five years between 1900 and 2000. As such, any CEO whose tenure began after 1996 was excluded from this survey. For the earlier decades of the twentieth century, we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way in a Business Week... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
existing electronic system for tracking opioid prescriptions. Today the group will have the chance to review a bill from the office of Georgia State Senator Renee Unterman, chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She now... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Your CEO Succession Plan Can’t Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could(Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge The non-REM phase of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought him here, far from the sleek,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
on to become a household name. Consider David Cowan’s (MBA 1992) initial response to eBay: “Stamps? Coins? Comic books? You’ve GOT to be kidding. No-brainer pass.” Chad Waite (MBA 1983) had this to say about a certain Seattle entrepreneur: “A guy walks into your View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
When Business History Was Business News UTAH, 1859: East meets West and America opens for business. Henry Guttmann/Getty Images Newspapers, so the saying goes, write the first draft of history. In her new book, The Story of American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the international division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a job that took her everywhere from Dublin and Bangkok to Shanghai. When a position opened at UP in early 2011, she welcomed the opportunity to work closer to home. "This is a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
between the family foundation of philanthropist Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) and WMG, was launched in June to support charitable causes related to the music industry, social justice, education, and campaigns against violence and racism. Hackney is Chief Partnerships View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Twitter’s profitability and the way the company was managed? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-019 MISHA: Modernizing the World of Shisha The case opens in 2017 with two of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
a lifetime overcoming barriers as a woman in a male-dominated profession and as an Indian in the global marketplace. Now, as opportunities to play a role in the environment are beginning to open up, she has to decide the next direction to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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reflections, etc.) Enrollment The course may be open for cross-registration; enrollment will be limited to 30 students. There are no pre-requisite courses. Short FAQ: Q: Are Family Offices important in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
offices and factories in the fifty countries where we operate," says the 68-year-old executive, whose company produces well-known household products such as Future floor cleaner, Pledge furniture polish, Glade air freshener, and Raid... View Details