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- 01 Oct 2002
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Karen Gordon Mills
interest,” notes Mills. “We like to be the capital that comes in to grow the business to the next level — build the next plant, make an acquisition, or expand the brand.” What makes Solera unique, she adds, is its research-intensive focus... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
United States became a big part of the phenomenon. Twitch, which launched in 2011 as the YouTube of gaming, was designed for watching and streaming video game play and connecting with like-minded players. It was also the perfect vehicle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
find an area where narrow AI is not having an impact,” says Seseri, which raises questions for business leaders in all sectors. How can e-commerce businesses benefit from artificial intelligence in the near... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey Jones explores how the beauty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
small businesses — entrepreneurial ventures almost by definition — were America’s principal job creators, not big companies.) Entrepreneurship at HBS, what McArthur calls “the house that Howard built,” was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
wrong. They discover that intuition, experience, and big data alone don't work. What does? Running disciplined business experiments. And what if companies roll out new products or introduce new customer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
we’ve made a difference, and that we created models and hope for the world,” explains Roberts. He recently talked about the WWF’s new mission. What’s the rationale behind your new conservation strategy? From a management point of view, the View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
Amazon was one of the big beneficiaries: The tech giant’s second quarter revenue was $88.9 billion, up a staggering 40 percent from the same period a year earlier. Amazon is the cornerstone of ecommerce—but are the merchants that offer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
of familiarity, cultural gulfs and local differences often remain hidden. Amid these conflicting realities, however, HBS alumni report anecdotal evidence that a youthful and growing cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Receives YPO’s Sustainability Award on Economic Justice/Community Impact 2014 Receives National Entrepreneurship Award from President of Mexico Cofounder and Managing Partner, IGNIA As a husband, father, friend, and business partner,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
there's a big difference between being nice and being kind. Ruinous empathy might be nice, but in the long run it's profoundly unkind. That radical candor is the kinder way to be. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
have a “guilty pleasure” author? James Michener. For some reason he captured my imagination years ago. Another guilty pleasure is Sports Illustrated. Nancy Koehn is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration and a View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Associate Professor Willis Emmons's work in the area of government policy and business. In Praise of Predictability "It used to be that if you worked hard and kept your nose clean, you'd enjoy a good career," says Howard Stevenson, the School's Sarofim-Rock Professor... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2019
- News
Land of the Rising Scrum
Old Boys team photo with the Keio Rugby Club (photos courtesy HBS Rugby club) John O’Donnell (MBA 1977) was in his first year at Harvard Business School when he heard a New Zealander trying to recruit new students for the rugby club. The... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Hi, my name is Srikant Datar and I have just started as Dean of the Harvard Business School on January the 1st. It was very nicely put by [Executive Dean for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
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My First Job
the obvious person may not be the one in charge. John Bennion, 1977. My first job coming out of business school was right here in Boston. I joined Bain & Company. I think I was the 40th employee. I really enjoyed the work, and I left just... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
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Running the Numbers
first intranet for a Fortune 50 company. “That was my first exposure to the way innovative data management can transform a big organization,” she notes. “When I went on to HBS, that seed had definitely been planted.” After HBS, Gelman... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg