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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
they worked so hard to bake. If the company becomes the next Facebook, says Professor Josh Lerner, that’s all well and good. If not, “you might be better off with 100 percent of the smaller pie.” In addition, says Lerner, the standard VC... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
free license plates—no small inducement when plates for internal combustion vehicles are awarded by lottery in cities like Shanghai and Beijing, and can fetch more than $14,000. But government largesse has its limits. China has already... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
Authority). “We believe restructuring those cities will take time, and inhabitants will need lots of support, not limited to financial or physical but also mental,” says Gumrah. “We will be there to support them.” FEBRUARY 21 Peter... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
Blau (MBA 2001), Baupost CEO Seth Klarman (MBA 1982), Standard Hotels CEO Amar Lalvani (MBA 2001), General Assembly CEO Lisa Lewin (MBA 2003), and Jeffrey C. Walker (MBA 1981), among other HBS graduates) who issued a statement supporting... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
international regions, presented business plans for their start-ups to judges on Monday, April 25, during the final round of competition. On Tuesday, Rakhi Mehra (MBA '09), founder of micro Home Solutions, a social housing initiative for... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
direct boss get fired for trying to inform the senior management. In 2011, Hunt was told to change the quality control reports so they looked better than they were. That’s when she took a stand. Episode two, “Ask Why,” focuses on Enron,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
reorganized the center - once dependent on donations and the volunteer services of its ashram members - into a team-based organization of paid staff, volunteers, and live-in members who have taken religious vows. Instituting new financial... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
has yet to be realized. A report by Ocean Energy Systems, an offshoot of the International Energy Agency, found that between 2009 and 2019, global energy production from wave and tidal sources increased from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
attend HBS. Earning her MBA, she says, will enable her “to look at myself and my home country from a very different perspective.” In the first-year Required Curriculum, she found Business, Government, and the International Economy to be... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
incursions have been reported that the government has had difficulty identifying patterns. That’s because the cybersecurity reporting standard for utilities, he observes, “is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
develop new case materials or to tailor existing materials, teaching plans, or class discussions to address the tragedy and its aftermath; HBS-sponsored panel discussions on topics such as the economic impact of the tragedy, globalization, and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of traditional Fijian craftsmanship... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
The second in a series of occasional reports on current research from some of the many faculty members whose classroom presentations to alumni have been a cornerstone of recent HBS reunions, this month we View Details