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- 09 Oct 2019
- News
Building a Tradition of Giving
a cure and maximum impact. Now that his children are young adults, Sternlicht is handing the tradition down. The chairman and CEO of the private alternative investment firm Starwood Capital Group cites as inspiration his own father, a... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
hurdle over a long period of time. We don’t think about how we do that in any one year. We think about how we do that over the course of 10 years. And so it means going into new markets, it means looking for inefficiencies, it means building a team that we know will... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
Even as a preteen, Jennifer Porter Anderson (MBA 2013) was convinced there could be a better, more compassionate alternative for criminal justice than locking people up in large, violent prisons. What began as a family dinner-table... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
toward alternative energy options. “Unconventional gas and oil represents perhaps the single largest source of competitive advantage and economic opportunity for the United States over the next decade or two,” says Porter, cochair of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
self-publishing a challenge to traditional book publishers? MA: We see self-publishing as a complementary alternative to the more traditional book publishers for aspiring authors. And it has allowed us to discover a lot of wonderful new... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward
opportunities and rapid decline. Lerner, author of The Architecture of Innovation (HBS Press, 2012), also found that corporate venture funds invested in start-up companies provide an alternative to in-house R&D departments—and the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
passed a bill to exempt approximately 23 million middle-class taxpayers from the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax for 2007. Facing a presidential veto threat, lawmakers lopped off the provision designed to make up for the $50 billion in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
"mainstream" organizational culture. But Meyerson argues that these "everyday leaders" can act as crucial sources of new ideas, alternative perspectives, and organizational learning and change. Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Decisions through the Ages
WATANABE: A primer for all ages on how to think entrepreneurially. Photo Courtesy Portfolio/Penguin Group USA In business and education, Japan and the United States seem to alternate as inspirations for one another, and Ken Watanabe (MBA... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
techniques to lower the cost,” says Brix. “Our long-term vision, really, is to dramatically reduce the cost of producing this electrofuel, to the point where it’s as cheap—if not cheaper—than many of the fuel alternatives that are... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
"We design them here, but the labor is cheaper in Hell." © Drew Dernavich/Condé Nast Publications/Cartoonbank.com Today, many people are looking to high-technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Christensen Center: Open for Business
Learning, videotaped multiple sections of a number of first-year courses in order to have side-by-side comparisons of how different faculty members approach the same course. “Video is a great tool for coaching,” says Emmons, who reviewed and analyzed the tapes and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Life of Bailey
routine,” he told the “What’s Your Workout?” column in the Wall Street Journal Online (November 13, 2006). When not traveling, Bailey alternates between regular swims and at-home workouts with weights and a rowing machine (he rowed at... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm's first fund is the New Protein Fund, dedicated to growing companies producing meat, seafood, and dairy View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Film School
businesspeople, and teachers to help urban teens make films about some of the serious issues—drugs, violence, love, sex, gangs, and poverty—they face. "Our film apprenticeship programs have a track record of getting teens, including troubled teens who are currently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Media, VC Discussed at WSA Conference
opportunities. At the Washington Post, Margaret M. Cromelin, vice president of marketing, said that 20 percent of its readers are spending less time with the newspaper because of alternative news sources on the Internet. However, 11... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
Island school district the skills to develop and run their own startups and to begin to think more broadly about careers. E360 is a year-long entrepreneurship curriculum at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, a state-funded View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
is the book income they produce. The proposal to publicly report taxes paid is an eminently sensible idea. More ambitious alternatives should also be considered, including making corporate tax returns public so shareholders can benefit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
thought leadership. We must experiment more extensively with alternative modes of teaching, collaborate more (both internally and with other Harvard schools), and find ways to deliver more real-world experience to our students. It is also... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy Many companies preach and practice corporate social responsibility, but their efforts often lack an overall strategy that dilutes their effectiveness.... View Details