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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Edelman, Benjamin, and Stephen M. Ryan Abstract—Every device connected to the global Internet needs a numeric identifier, an "Internet Protocol" address ("IP address"). The Internet's continued growth presents a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
April 2009. The mother of three school-age children, Decker is on the boards of Berkshire Hathaway, Costco, and Intel. “The EiR program seemed like a good fit, in that it’s an advisory role that keeps me focused on an institution I care... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
you do in the mountains, when every step can be very dangerous, can be fatal. So you have to be very careful where you put your foot every time. JH: Over the course of a multifaceted career, Bonnie Cohen (MBA 1967) has held leadership... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Business historians can profit from careful analyses of government and personal archives to reconstruct the early "start-up" phases of firms—and to uncover the role that other organizational forms, such as partnerships, played... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
history of the republic is off to a rockier start. What I teach my students is that great leaders—like Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs—are fast learners, and they continue to invest in learning throughout their careers. Moreover,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
learn outside her comfort zone. Today Wallace is founding director of BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative at New York’s American Museum of Natural History focused on introducing girls and minorities to computer science. “It’s very easy to leave HBS and View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
continues to run the company as CEO), Barna again beat the odds. In 2017 she became a general partner at First Round Capital, an early stage investor in Birchbox. She was the first woman to hold that title in the firm’s then-13-year... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
After an overview of Boston Children's Hospital and its local health care market environment, the case presents process maps and financial data relating to patients making office visits to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
matured. But what also comes through is, whatever his style of leadership, to whatever degree it might have worked, it didn't always continue to work. He had to constantly recalibrate and rearrange. In the end, he said, "Nothing was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
nationwide, will fail as the dust from the tech wreck continues to settle. Most firms that close go out with a whimper after unsuccessfully attempting to raise a new pool of investment capital. “There are firms that have been out trying... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
ours was a unique time at the School, but it wasn't as though we were burning down buildings and joining the SDS - we worked very hard," continues O'Donnell, who has vivid memories of his first day at HBS. "We were greeted by the Dean in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important even as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607032 MD Beauty, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 806-045 Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful natural beauty and skin View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
requirements or social norms, but because we are altruistic; we care intrinsically about the welfare of others. In this paper, we illustrate for these types of decisions how confusion may arise because the distinction between our personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Strategy Harvard Business School Case 705-477 The Turkish home appliances firm Arcelik is revisiting its growth strategy. Options for growth include continuing to promote currently owned brands in international markets, acquiring new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
brakes, they would sprint to take care of the problem and make sure we were able to continue moving. After four days we reached An Najaf. We were just getting ready to set up our logistical base and begin... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
actually the best feature of human beings. We always aspire for more. And somehow, unfortunately, in the current milieu, organizations and managers have felt overwhelmed by the fact that they have to deliver the dream job and people are seen as View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
central topic of research in business history, reflecting of course its continued importance today. Yet it is immediately apparent from the titles of the 25 chapters in the book that business historians have become concerned with a much... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
its historical data period from 20 years to six or seven; today, Liberty looks at only the most recent three years. As climate change and the resulting rise in catastrophic weather continue to have these dramatic implications on the... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
mission. And as I was walking out of the door my dad looked up and said, son, when you finish firing my manager I expect you to replace him with your manager. And yours better be as good as mine. So as I was on the way back to take care... View Details