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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
phone at his home in Los Angeles, Dick, one of eight writers on the show, has had about seven days to turn in a 60-page script. “My wife will tell you that I’m an insufferable ogre when I’m on deadline,” he says. “But you have to feed the beast. Halting View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
uninsured was a low 10 percent (compared with 15 percent nationally), and it already had in place a free-care pool for financing the uninsured, which most states do not. “Nevertheless,” Slavin concludes, “the Massachusetts health-reform framework of individual mandates... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is different, he says: A View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
and principal owner of the Westmoreland Glass Company, a maker of functional and decorative glassware. Wilson still remembers the day when, as a four-year-old, he was taken by his grandfather to visit the factory. "I can still recall the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
fictional, the descriptive events bear such close resemblance to reality that the reader is left with an informed perspective on the people, the culture, and the day-to-day business realities within China.” When asked what motivated him to write a novel about China,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
“I realized that it’s not about the idea; it’s about the team,” Medina recalls of those early days. It was a revelation that would serve him well. Medina soon joined forces with product designer Andrew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
grow up just like ‘ours.' This approach has led to many failures,” says Arnold. Indeed, research by Arnold and Quelch has found that emerging markets tend to develop and grow quite differently, sometimes with a tighter product life cycle,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
thereby mitigates his chances of failure, makes the trick more impressive, and develops new techniques that can be applied to new tricks. This focus on simplification to offer a better product reminded me of Apple’s innovative process.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
can rack up U.S. box office receipts of just over $380 million (not including consumer product tie-ins), and unexpected hits like Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ grossed $370 million in 2004, earning a respectable third-place... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
rebels engaged in guerilla movements against a pro-Western government. He knew the United States must preserve deniability, so he would be abandoned in any life-threatening situation; he did not know that Che Guevara was trying to export his revolution a few miles... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Marshall-ing the Facts with Marty While reading the remembrance of Professor Martin Marshall in the June Bulletin, I recalled a humorous but “typically Marty” happening that I witnessed while attending OPM in the late 1980s. The case... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick In 1979, Mal Mixon parlayed $10,000 of his own money to engineer the purchase of an Ohio-based wheelchair maker that nobody else wanted. Today Invacare is the world's leading manufacturer and distributor of medical View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs
Birchbox, a beauty product subscription box service that has grown to more than 1 million subscribers. “We started raising funds and suddenly we were in rooms where there were no people who looked like us,” said Barna, now the first... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
Approaching Sound of Change"; and "The Myth of the Successful Businessman." As I thought about this piece, I recalled the many lively stories of interesting alumni: the publisher of the Old Farmer's Almanac; the uranium prospector turned... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
The story of how nonprofit start-up Montage Entertainment came about would be familiar to many past participants in the HBS Business Plan Contest. “Some friends and I were sitting in the café at Shad, discussing film and the way women and minorities are represented by... View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
In March, the School lost two of its most distinguished and loyal professors, Bertrand Fox and Myles Mace. The following profiles recall their contributions to HBS. Professor emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking... View Details