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- 13 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success
they can be the rocket ships for social mobility and potential that we believe they are.” The program, created in partnership with students, Student Academic Services, faculty, Admissions, and Financial Aid, reflects HBS's commitment to... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
the enthusiasm of a baseball fan at an All-Star game. "Qualified women run the gamut," she says. "I can tell you about a 37-year-old rocket scientist who is going to join a board. She is one of the most poised, mature people I've ever... 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
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
and retain some of their knowledge. It's not rocket science." Among more specific proposals, Sharon Richmond suggests an antidote to the Violette objection by suggesting that "Rather than relying only on private, one-to-one... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... View Details
- 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
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
editing in biotech, 3D printing has allowed for rapid prototyping for hardware startups, and reusable rockets have brought down the cost to build and launch a small satellite to under a million dollars. “And we often see advances in one... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
liquid hydrogen rocket engine that was subsequently used in many of the major space exploration programs, and Fern taught in the first public high school in Palm Beach County to be integrated.” One of the goals the couple had when they... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 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
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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
identified a few board members with whom she could build a relationship and invited them to coffee. “It’s not rocket science. You create coalitions and keep your balance because you’ll always get pushback.” Early on, she also did an... 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
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
low quality to washing machines that have decent quality. It is not rocket science. Many people had the necessary capability, but only a few saw the opportunities and said, OK, I’m going to do it. While this pattern of success is common,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Starved for capital in an environment where all the usual money sources had dried up, many major commercial property owners took their companies public in the form of real estate investment trusts (REITs), heretofore a little-used option. Between 1992 and 1997, roughly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
prices. Incomes were soaring, and by some measures about 1,000 new cars were being added to Jakarta streets every day. Not long after his graduation in 2011, Makarim joined Germany-based e-commerce investment firm Rocket Internet as its... 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
- 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