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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
203's 85% threshold to 70%. Like the middle-ground approach on staggered boards, this amendment-to a single number-would also represent good policy: facilitating high-premium offers that attract a supermajority of disinterested shares,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni volunteers through the club system. Perry Driggs (MBA '61) skillfully led the Lifelong Learning Committee in discussions on how alumni perceive lifelong learning, what role HBS might play in that arena, and how best to market the programs View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
her latest book. An authority on business history as well as branding, consumer behavior, and business strategy, Koehn cut her historical teeth on understanding and interpreting the economic and social contexts for businesses. In Brand New, she View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The HBSAA Board of Directors has been hard at work this year, and I am delighted to report progress on a number of initiatives that will benefit alumni. After welcoming twelve new members and inaugurating the committees for 1999-2000 last... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
1957, Olsen and Anderson submitted a four-page, typewritten business proposal to ARD, followed in May by a nine-page proposal. 43 ARD offered the two entrepreneurs $70,000 in equity financing for a 70 percent share and an additional loan... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
Americans have had on the School, the business world, and society at large. The HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) has partnered with the AASU and the HBS Leadership Initiative to produce five core View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
identifying customer needs and R&D to introduce hit products. Nike’s ecosystem. One of Nike’s initial ventures into fitness was the 2012 launch of the FuelBand, a wrist-worn fitness tracker with social features. Its key feature,... View Details
Levels of Meaning
courses were even offered at HBS. But I decided to take Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism (EGC) and The Coming of Managerial Capitalism because I wanted to balance “hard skills” courses with classes that broadened my perspective on... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
The Softer Side of Business at HBS
initially sure if HBS was that place. I didn’t hear that much about courses offered in this area, but after talking to current students and professors, that myth was shattered. Here’s what I learned... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
in four states are currently looking at starting the class in 2014, thus joining the six Illinois and Indiana communities already offering it." Schultz cites HBS professors Howard Stevenson (entrepreneurship), Ray Goldberg (agribusiness),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
respected individuals in the investment world offer investors a set of simple and powerful rules and investment principles on how to challenge the market at its own game and win by not losing. Stanley Meltzoff — Picture Maker by Stanley... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
the integrated management toolkit I needed to advance equity across underserved communities. I chose HBS and the Kennedy School because the experience offers peerless, highly integrated preparation for management across government,... View Details
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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement
Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author Health Care View Details
- Profile
Carter Romansky
private sector, but not to nonprofits. Nonprofits offer excellent creative opportunities, but don't have the capacity to recruit top talent." In response, Carter helped launch New Sector Alliance's Summer Fellows Program to... View Details
- Profile
Jaime Mendez
Jaime Mendez' high school choir director was such a powerfully positive influence in his life that at one point, he seriously considered becoming a music teacher himself. After Harvard, he went to Goldman Sachs instead, but his initial... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
Many of the low-income employees who lost their jobs when white-collar workers stopped commuting may never get those jobs back, according to some economists, who point to COVID’s lasting impacts on the labor market. Now a national View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
climate-relevant initiatives is dedicated to flood resilience and water resource management, highlighting the importance of water security in the city’s climate strategy. However, despite this focus, water management remains one of the... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News In partnership with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), the HBS Club of New York tackled the issue of climate change from a business perspective in a spirited panel discussion moderated by clean energy... View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
"These peak events are a way to generate excitement, especially for a well-established player like Amazon. It's a means of creating news and buzz by coming up with your very own Black Friday out of nowhere." Gupta pointed out how important Prime has become... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change together. Hosted by the HBS... View Details