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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Gravity, the space thriller released last week, features two of Hollywood's brightest stars: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It rocketed to an October record $55 million gross in its opening week, well on its way to returning a profit... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Class of 1975 in Review
future investment bankers, consultants, and Fortune 500 leaders. "Hey, Stumm!" boomed a loud voice. I was astonished to see my Dartmouth buddies Giff Foley and Ken Wilson. Our last encounter had been at college graduation, when I watched them shoot bottle View Details
Keywords: J. Hans Stumm
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
and Alexis BrownellHarvard Business School Case 813-121 Rebeca Minguela hopes to create an arbitrage platform, similar to Rocket Internet, that can bring start-up ideas and opportunities to Spain. However, Blink Booking, her first venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
continue mitigating those risks and advancing the technology?” The government is in the best place. They have all the testing. And while it will take much longer done by government, we’re still riding down that cost curve with chemical View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
leading by example, a conviction evident in her involvement in an annual gathering that brings together students and professionals who share her keen interest in understanding and expanding the role of analytics in sports businesses. Launched by Gelman in 2006 with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
breach lanes breach lanes. Major Gurfein continued to personally direct the breaching actions as enemy activity markedly increased to his front. As enemy indirect fire was being “walked” down the berm towards his position, the enemy then came under both View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
electric car: “It took off like a rocket and stopped on a dime,” says Draper. That eventually led DFJ to Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors, then SpaceX, the rocket manufacturer founded by Musk in 2002 with the modest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
lines to meet ambitious delivery targets. Meanwhile, Musk was also CEO of SpaceX, which was, while growing its business of launching satellites and cargo into space for commercial and governmental clients, preparing to take astronauts into space, pioneering the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy. View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock price started View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
option. Between 1992 and 1997, roughly 150 REITs went public, rocketing the aggregate equity value of these companies from $10 billion to more than $175 billion in just five years, says Slaughter. Today, there are approximately 180... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
“If a company taking the challenge says there aren’t any viable Black candidates, we can say, ‘Yes, there are,’” notes Primus, who adds that one company “literally needed a rocket scientist, and we found one who is now on that board.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
one hand, this is not rocket science, and yet you see hundreds of applications not doing well.” Lal’s research delved into five successful mobile money deployments: Telesom ZAAD in Somaliland, Dialog eZ Cash in Sri Lanka, Econet EcoCash... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
entrepreneurship as a trip on a roller coaster, not a rocket ship,” says HBS professor and entrepreneurship expert Bill Sahlman, an early investor in E Ink and longtime adviser to Wilcox. “Very few companies go straight up, and E Ink is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
this one played out brilliantly. Within a decade, Dr. Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) rocketed through the ranks of Sandoz and in 1996 led the firm’s merger with Ciba-Geigy, emerging as CEO of the new company called Novartis, based in... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
exploring decarbonization models, pairing with power companies to feed its CO2 to their plants. “We have people who are rocket scientists”—literally—“who are looking at this for us and doing the energy analysis. I touch base with them... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
leave, and it showed that universally people would be more successful at work had they detached the night prior. It's not rocket science that detachment from work allows you to fill up the coffers again and be excited about what you're... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
limited time, and they never stop to ask, "Can we do this better?" One of the pleas of our book is, "For God's sake, stop and design this stuff: It isn't rocket science once you stop to think about it." But many boards... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace