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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
that an idea is not viable is a successful outcome—as long as that learning happened in a reasonably resource-efficient way. Prospect theory holds that people hate losses more than they enjoy equivalent gains. Add this to a culture in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Looking for a Leader: The Role of Executive Search Firms
search was made during the dinner; yet within weeks, the first CEO was interviewing for the telecom post, which he only learned about later through a headhunter's phone call. Why would the telecommunications company use a search firm to talk with the View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
uneducated, and ill-equipped population; and exhausted resources. The military leaders considered the daunting prospects of simmering border and ethnic instability, continued castigation, an imprisoned and widely revered charismatic... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
his study of indigenous traditions. “It was four days without food or water. Initially it was a prospect I couldn’t imagine, but I felt like a new being afterwards. It was very freeing,” he says. Sprinkles eventually became initiated as a... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
business and investment—not for ideological reasons, but because experience and research have shown those are the countries that offer the best prospects for growth and can best use the American taxpayer’s valuable dollars.” Regarding... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
producing companies became larger and more autonomous. Even producers, if they happened to be small operators of oil refineries, iron works, and cigarette factories, could not begin to compete with the new giants. So they often faced the View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
Engines -- to start the Singer Corporation case. McNerney waxed eloquent on the sewing machine business, the overall outlook for the industry, and Singer's prospects for the future. After five minutes, Austin deadpanned, "Mr. McNerney,... View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
future growth prospects based on revenue per product. —Sergio Rattner (MBA 2001) The appeal of the product to young parents seems apparent. Thisappeal can be better monetized on a social platform rather than a conventional distribution... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
for women to think more about their marriage prospects than their business future. Nevertheless, Haberkorn walked into the Baltimore employment office of the AT&T-owned Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland and landed a job in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
based primarily on data from a 2007 World Bank study of global economic prospects for 2030.* We showed it to important business leaders — some HBS alumni, some not — from around the world and asked them for their views on potential... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
then have to think about the prospects for commercialization. They have to communicate back and forth extensively. What were some of the projects? As an example, one of last year’s teams was looking at an application of quantum dots for... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
and applicability, with great potential for the healthcare market. Latino Alumni annual banquet draws record crowd, donations More than 120 HBS alumni, as well as current and prospective students, attended the 14th Annual Banquet of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
January 31 to February 1. Before a Burden Hall audience of some nine hundred students, business leaders, and academics, keynote speaker Dr. Edgar Cheng, chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, voiced optimism for the British colony's economic View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
HBS faculty, while aspiring MBA Program applicants had their first exposure to the case method during Prospective Student Day events, organized each year by the AASU and the HBS Admissions Office in conjunction with the conference.... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
25-year-old male with a university degree who has worked for two or three years with a bank or insurance company where the job required him to cold-call prospects and push products. iTrust takes a different approach. New hires unlearn how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
mentoring successful cleantech companies. Some highlights: Why there is no such thing as cleantech, there is only money; Avoiding the cleantech fallacy; Pre-marketing your product to avoid problems later; Prioritizing your prospects... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
with the Wahhabi establishment, and its increasingly dangerous environment populated with a diverse set of enemies, he looks at the prospects for the survival of the monarchy and suggests ideas for reform. Managing in the Gray: Five... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
opportunity too great to help families whose struggles she understands all too well. She remains motivated by the community support she sees for her work and the prospect of perfecting a model for affordable housing investment that she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
in which they can best approach those challenges. Tom Eisenmann: When I speak to prospective students, I actually don’t “sell” our entrepreneurship-related activities, which are amazing. What I talk about is the Business School: the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
expedition as its lead mountaineer, he was single. His romance with Katrina Hincks, a Vassar grad now living in New York, had ended abruptly, and that, along with dim prospects for the career in publishing he had envisioned when he... View Details