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- 01 Jun 2008
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The $4 Billion Question
clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. “The case highlights some interesting tensions and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
positions that helped him understand the complexities of the company—from shift supervisor in a manufacturing plant, to new product development, to business development. Weeks, a quick study, has 26 patents pending despite a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
Florida's Walt Disney World®, this year marking 25 years of extraordinary entrepreneurial success, was the venue for the celebration of the 21st anniversary of Harvard Business School's Owner/President Management Program (OPM). Under the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
led to a McKinsey Award–winning 2010 Harvard Business Review article. Now, with the help of former HBR editor Karen Dillon (who conceived of and edited the 2010 article) and his former student James Allworth (MBA 2010), Christensen has... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
a little bit more thoughtful. So when I began, it was just a single Excel page tracking how long I was running for, and how much I was sleeping, and a couple other things related to overall wellness. And it was really just a way to have some View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
and create a community among individuals who are studying this phenomenon. Too often, leadership is not considered a legitimate subject of study in business schools, despite the fact that we face a pressing need for developing more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third of Clay’s revenue in the first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation’s (HSBC) investment banking and securities business in India. She was selected as one of 2002’s fifteen emerging “Global Influentials” by Time magazine; in 2000, Fortune magazine named her the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
interview didn’t work for me.” A stint as a New England business correspondent for the Associated Press was a better fit. “Suddenly I was interviewing CEOs and covering banking scandals, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is where it’s happening,’... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
when you're on a motorcycle traveling, especially through these small remote areas. So I became very enamored of riding into small remote areas on a motorcycle, experiencing the local cuisines, smelling the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
television divisions. "I'm responsible for nearly $2 billion in revenues," he says. Previously, Zelnick held prominent positions in the movie industry, including a stint as president of Twentieth Century Fox. He decided to try running a View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their own. The state subsidizes residents who have incomes that meet or somewhat exceed federal poverty guidelines. An independent public authority, known informally as the Health Connector, helps individuals and small View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to dramatically change how View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
path for criminal justice. A family dinner-table conversation about the concept of recidivism eventually led Anderson to pursue a business education, jobs working on private-sector approaches to the problem, and ultimately to found her... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
NY Club’s Senior Program makes the connection It’s been a little over five years since Len Polaner (MBA 1954) and a small committee of like-minded alumni in the HBS Club of New York launched the first Seniors Program, a series of social... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
each day I was able to take what I’d learned from class and apply it to real situations,” she says. “It was beyond the Socratic method---like learning how to fight in the ring with your opponent in there with you.” Running a company in New York while going to school... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
of talent—connections that are further refined by an AI engine that ensures an optimal fit of both technical and soft skills. Berendt came to Talent Alpha after 18 years in the tech industry, most recently at the global IT service provider Luxoft. There he observed... View Details