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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
alumnus who went on to earn his doctoral degree and to teach entrepreneurship at HBS. “Distinguish between ideas that only rise to the level of ‘nice to have,’ versus things that people really need or greatly want.” Especially in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
the MCC is doing the right thing, for the right people, at the right time," Bloom says. "This is the best job I've ever had. We're really trying to implement the principle of teaching a man to fish in order to give people the basis for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Fisher Associates in San Francisco, which invests in early-stage technology and telecommunications ventures. What will motivate Scott in her new job is what has inspired her in all of her endeavors - the pleasure she gets from bringing out the best in people. "Whether... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
history, Austin and his coauthors identified the decision to mainstream social enterprise material into every aspect of HBS research and teaching as “a defining strategic choice.” Today, the initiative’s strategic objectives range from... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
developing, owning, and managing properties to offer fascinating perspectives on real-estate ventures - both successful and ill-conceived. Using a format he has shaped during thirty years of teaching at HBS, Poorvu focuses on four key... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
Baltimore? At NYU, I learned that being a mechanical engineer is about taking things that wouldn’t normally be able to do something and putting them together in a way that makes them work. HBS taught me strategy and how to do things economically. And the case method... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
we teach here," she notes. "One major goal of the Initiative is to feed international cases into the MBA and Executive Education Programs, in all fields of study. We're providing the incentive and the support so faculty can do that."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn currently View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
done differently. “The video is a very powerful teaching tool,” says Yoffie. “Few CEOs will admit to their mistakes in a public setting.” The comings and goings of various CEOs at Apple over the years can be instructive in itself, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
just this volunteer mom,” recalls Whitney, who had no admissions experience. “I told him, ‘I’m pretty good with people, I understand education, and I understand marketing. You can teach me about admissions.’ He thought about it and said... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
and provide a privately directed, revenue-neutral stimulus that could eclipse the effects of any potential stimulus that could emerge from Washington today. — Mihir A. Desai, the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance and senior associate dean for Planning and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
Norton teaches in the Marketing Unit and is cowriting a book on money and happiness. This article first appeared as a New York Times blog post on March 22, 2011. View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Who Owns Yoga?
people,” Deshpandé says. The enterprising Bikram, born in 1946 in Calcutta and known worldwide by his first name, began studying yoga as a four-year-old. He arrived in the United States in 1971, opening his first studio in Los Angeles and View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
innovation defines its identity. “It’s an interesting question to debate,” remarks Tripsas, who expects to teach the case again in the spring. For now, TOTO is continuing its efforts to popularize the Washlet in the United States, even as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
goal of giving his two children the spiritual education he had come to appreciate in his own formative years. When he began teaching Sunday school, however, he soon found that "teaching those kids was more important to me than what I was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet
improve your capabilities, and follow your own convictions. In True North, Professor of Management Practice Bill George describes a process to help you in this effort. At HBS, we teach his methods in the second-year course Authentic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
Burke (MBA ’65), who taught in the Buffalo program before moving to Charlotte and spearheading the effort there. “We’ve had a tremendous response from alumni who want to teach a case, or even two cases,” says Burke. Both clubs offer the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
For over twenty years, Boston native Joe Toplyn has written and produced television comedy. His credits include Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won four Emmy Awards; The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; The Late Show with David Letterman; and In Living Color.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
and is an adjunct faculty member teaching digital marketing at NYU and Rutgers. He has shared stories of growing up in Dubai and Kuwait on RISK! and The Moth Radio Hour. View Details