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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
Medina flagged a half-century ago seem destined to be repeated. Far from being a static industry with ossified giants, private equity features brutal competition and enormous dynamism. Groups that were dominant just a few years ago, such... View Details
- 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
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
multiplex. Why bother, when you can watch a movie in your “home theater,” complete with high-definition screen and surround sound? Last year was dubbed “year of the missing moviegoer” by the Los Angeles Times, with box office receipts down 7 percent View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
percent of employees believed the new policy allowed them to get their work done efficiently, and 84 percent said that it was an important factor in their desire to stay at the company. Earlier this year, Werk was purchased by the Mom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
No-Nonsense Rules from the Ultimate Contrarian and Small Business Guru by George Cloutier (MBA ’69) (HarperBusiness) Having spent over thirty years guiding business owners, Cloutier, founder and CEO of American Management Services, offers... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya Photo courtesy Pialy Aditya A couple of years ago, Pialy Aditya (MBA 2005) got an unexpected inquiry from a venture capital firm: Would she be interested in being a partner? Though she wasn’t looking for a... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
but brought back from the brink of bankruptcy by its current president David Green (MBA ’91). Explaining that a natural trachea is shaped by its “scaffold” (its framework of cartilage and muscle), the Wall Street Journal (July 8, 2011)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
Boston and a hot website fawned over by everyone from the New York Times to NPR. The financial crisis, though, forced Shapiro to shutter the site, transform Book of Odds into a data-consulting group, and put... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Valley and other more established global tech meccas; Africa can export great ideas, too, he says. “We’re building world-class technology in emerging markets. So our technology can succeed in the States, it... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
years, including health care and consumer goods," he says. "If we don't think of new ways to finance and save for school today, we're going to be in a world of hurt 15 years from now." —Julia Hanna View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
within this virtual format. April: I imagine that like most of us, you have been on a lot of video calls since the beginning of this crisis. What are some of the smart and useful ways you've seen people adapt to this new work environment?... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
to give our clients immediate access to cutting-edge solutions and technologies in the field. How must organizations change to remain competitive in the new economy? Organizations need to transform... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
second-largest continent: Africa. “Policymakers, investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of technologies are illuminating View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
percent of that mortgage." The result of that was that white people were able to buy homes now, and communities like Levittown, New York, were created in the suburbs. But on the condition from the federal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
Enase Okonedo directs the Executive MBA Program. Like Casado, she also received enthusiastic reviews from students before attending the CPCL, but Okonedo says her exposure to the various teaching methods of HBS professors has helped her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
"Of course it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem cells." © Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com In light of the latest developments of the... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in... View Details