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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
contractions could be more severe since there are fewer governmental controls and safety nets than in other countries. The second quarter of this year provided a "correction" in U.S. equity markets, and a lot of dot-coms have become... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
tolerant. And it reduces your need to place trust in any individual centralized institution. In bitcoin, people submit transactions to the system, just like you might tell your credit card company to send money to a merchant. All the computers simultaneously try to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
roughly the size of a rugby field. The 50-year-old has been farming this small-scale way all his life, and he's been taken advantage of just about as long. The Nigerian government, long considered one of the most corrupt on the African continent, had View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
remember that business is all about working with people, be they your associates or customers." DANIEL GREGORY Wesleyan University, 1951 B.S., Psychology "Companies don't grow and succeed through some sort of miracle or because you put a lot of money into them. During... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
retail investors and dismiss them as uneducated or unworthy. It strikes me as incredibly egocentric and paternalistic. I inherently believe that people have the ability to learn, to take control of their own destiny.” “I will say that I... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
available today does not address the needs of senior job seekers. Building a Winning Career sets out a proven process that has worked for hundreds of senior executives, delivering superior results for those considering their next career... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
(MBA 1969)—to careers in business. “He taught by the case method, and made sure we had real-life experiences,” Lambert says, recalling a field trip to General Motors in Detroit. “Professor Fitzhugh saw business as a way for the black community to View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
the distinct but related spheres of ownership, family, and business overlap, influence one another, and evolve over time (see sidebar). "Most family businesses start with a single controlling owner," Davis explains. "Fifteen years down... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
as successful. Ron Kurtz (MBA ’67) Miami, FL Private-Equity Lessons Don’t Apply Professor Malcolm Salter’s article “Enron’s Legacy” in the December issue seems to offer an “if pigs had wings” analysis of Enron’s board of directors problem. Obviously, if Enron had been... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Hoxworth Blood Center, where it was processed and stored. Parents paid an initial processing fee at the time of delivery and an annual storage fee in the month of the child’s birthday. At the time, most... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
associate John Klug (MBA ’72). Recalls Sasser, “The idea was to view process analysis — a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management — in a setting that didn’t involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
dog-sized doses,” says Minard. Going beyond supplements, SmartPak Canine introduced high-quality, premeasured dog food, inspired by Tally, Minard’s lovable but extremely overweight (94-pound) Lab. Including high-protein dry food in one of the SmartPak compartments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
money, talent, or pilot projects. The big banks and insurers that have since signed up as customers weren’t interested in them, and the lack of an ecosystem made the process of securing seed funding extremely challenging. (They eventually... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
on the island of Nantucket off Massachusetts, serves more than 1,000 children, adults, and veterans every year. “I’m a firm believer in growing only as fast as you can control the quality of your product,” says Callahan. “We’ve served... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details