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01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

noted that electricity in South Africa is the cheapest in the world and that ESKOM is able to provide support to neighboring countries. Where infrastructure is lacking, entrepreneurial opportunities abound. In recent years, for example, the Cambridge,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

specialized in failing companies," said the former management consultant in a 1985 HBS interview. "No matter what a firm's problem was, I always said it was my specialty to take care of it." MCI, an upstart telecommunications View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of organization—a private-sector View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

examine the racial diversity initiatives of eight professional service firms in an effort to identify the organizational elements that are critical to the success of diversity initiatives and differentiate successful from less successful... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

revitalize product lines produced by some of America’s most recognizable retailers. More recently, Ross, a self-styled corporate maverick, has branched out from products to explore process in pursuit of corporate America’s elusive holy grail: successful product... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

authors have helped scale hundreds of hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Drawing on their experience, they present 50 clear, proven, and up-to-date scalability rules and practical guidance for applying them.... View Details

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

the New York City-based consulting firm Katzenbach Partners and author of Why Pride Matters More Than Money (Crown, 2003), likes the story of the Wilmington plant because it communicates what he calls... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

25 Oct 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

Chitalia (MBA 2026)Snehal comes to HBS after working at Disney and with other entertainment studios throughout Los Angeles. Passionate about increasing diversity and opportunities for women in the entertainment industry, she founded a pro bono View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

notification of award will lead to forfeiture of your GO Fellowship award. We suggest you consult your tax professional for questions about your tax liability. Neither HBS nor Harvard University may provide tax advice. NOTE: HBS will not... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

fundraisers for relief operations, or offering free goods and services, there are countless instances of HBS graduates who mobilized to help. Henry M. ("Hank") Paulson, Jr. (MBA '70), chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, was one of the first Wall Street executives to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

Progress The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting Herzlinger was born in Israel and immigrated to the United States with her family when she was eight. She earned a degree in economics from MIT, spent time in Washington as an economist, and worked as a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a course taught since 1993, focuses... View Details

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

with markets and investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

famous inventor Charles F. Kettering (MBA ’27) predicted ARD would go bust in five years. But Doriot proved him wrong over the next 25 years, as his firm financed and nurtured more than 100 start-ups, many of which became huge successes... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

budget with Black-owned businesses. My dermatology firm's Black-owned. My law firm is Black-owned, my dental firm is Black-owned. And so I'm asking whites to do the same for the purpose of it trickling down... View Details

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Angelus Consulting and Research Limited at Infosys What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Prove your mastery... View Details

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar asked a partner at a top consulting View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

clean leakage, results here indicate that a carbon tariff decreases global emissions. Domestic firm profits, on the other hand, can increase, decrease, or remain unchanged due to a carbon tariff, which suggests that carbon tariffs are not... View Details