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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
to some. “He asked tough questions, even hardware-related stuff,” DU alum Surbhi Sarna told Bloomberg Business last year. “...He was giving us design ideas.” Draper invested in Sarna’s nVision Medical, a medical device company for women’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
that what have I done? Wanted to do the takeover, I mean yes, we increased operating profits. So I suppose my hypothesis that it wasn't being as managed as optimally as possible, this proved correct. But so what? We lost control and what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
under consideration would “supplement and complement the case method to do some things that it’s not designed to do.” Adds Datar: “Figuring out the exact mechanisms for how we do that is the job ahead for... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
ventilation system that cycles the air every few seconds and a secondary system designed to blow out any pathogens or insects that might have snuck past earlier garrisons. All of this security is in place to protect—sans pesticides—the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
terms with what business itself should be. Is it a method for delivering goods to consumers at the lowest prices? Is it a mechanism for providing employment? Is it a tool for asserting national power abroad? Is it a vehicle for building... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, which were designed by GE. But Immelt’s biggest challenge was inherited: Welch had handed over a company that had great people, but was short on innovation. Immelt set out to change GE’s focus by making it... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
performance rather than individual or unit performance. Beer and Katz thus suggest that instead of putting energy into designing complicated incentive plans intended to motivate executives, top managers should focus on developing an... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
considerably better off, even as it creates both winners and losers, and the losers often suffer through no fault of their own. A capitalist economy should be judged not just on the aggregate economic improvement driven by its innovation but also on the View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
contrary forces of dreamer and doer in Mawilmada that would propel him through the various stages of his career. At that point, he was still the dreamer who had worked on designing a fantastical, entirely artificial baobab tree in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
to translate their thoughts into English are at a distinct disadvantage in this situation. Without such feedback mechanisms in place, say administrators such as Pat Light, the School would miss important clues. "Some years back," she... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
series of summit-style events that bring like-minded technology and design innovators together with experts in the field of aging. The next step will be scaling the enterprise through local chapters in cities around the world and raising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
black box that transforms ideas into actual products and services. "Little bets labs," for example, allow companies large and small to rapidly build and test prototypes in the market using inexpensive web resources. "Find someone with a good eye for View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
dating platforms were designed by men, they are optimized for surfacing as many choices and pictures as possible,” she says. “My goal is not to get people to just browse hot photos and connect. My goal is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
today we call “Search Funds.” Captained and inspired by visionary Leader Irv Grousbeck, they designed a track that allowed them to acquire a company, become its CEO, and, if well executed, also be its largest shareholder. Supported by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors argue that meticulous integration management is the key to success in M&A transactions, half of which are unsuccessful because this key factor is neglected. This practical manual helps managers optimize and streamline their growth... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
and HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson READ MORE [Sound of golf club hitting ball] In 2020, Aaron Sabin was working as a mechanical engineer at the golfing equipment company TaylorMade. Aaron Sabin: What I would do is I would View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
optimism about the future of McDonald’s that was hard to find two years ago. In January 2015, the company released its worst earnings report in 30 years, with revenue at its more than 36,000 global locations falling by 7 percent from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
competitive battleground. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Macmillan) Having the drive, ambition, and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset: the ability to disrupt the status quo, use View Details