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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
friend. Masha had just graduated from HBS and was working at a medical-device company in Massachusetts. Okoloko's call came at the right time. Professionally, Masha was eager to join a start-up; personally, he'd resolved to move closer to his aging View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
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Mo Fong
Mo Fong (HBS ‘02, Stanford ‘95 ChemE, ‘96 MA Education ) Mo is currently the Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Management and Engineering focusing on entrepreneurship research, programs and outreach. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
picture as firms emerge as weak transferors of knowledge and contribute to income divergence. However, the evidence is partial and patchy. Many topics, from the relations between affiliates and parents in multinational firms, to the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
feature more volatile returns, and the volatility of a parent company's aggregate foreign returns also increases with the extent of the firm's political risk exposure. Parent companies mitigate the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard Medical School teaching faculty and hospital division director,... View Details
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Carole Carlson
Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
without cannibalizing its own market share or diluting the sterling brand of the parent airline. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-060 The Cheese and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
used trust to support this organizational structure. The firm built a network of trustworthy individuals and business partners that enabled it, eventually, to separate the German parent company from its international affiliates. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
natural curiosity was encouraged by his parents (and by a memorable high-school teacher), and as a child who had had glimpses of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Stevenson recalls, “I was desperate to get to the outside world. I tried... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
games, catering both to the serious players and to the clueless parents who want to better understand their children’s interests. “This is something I wish I could have shared with my father,” says Collis, an avid gamer. Collis, like many... View Details
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Terms of Use - HBS Online
for example, approval of a parent or other authorized person. By registering for or participating in a Program or Service, you hereby represent that (i) you are 18 years of age or older and have the authority and legal capacity to enter... View Details
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Commencement 2018 Address | About
source of boundless energy in our lives. Some of you may have also experienced the painful passage of losing a parent or loved one. You recognize how vital it is to seize opportunities to express your thanks, and your love. This is one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Professor of Business Administration and cochair, Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship One such example is CellScope, which manufactures a device that fits easily over a smartphone's camera so a parent or school nurse can take a photo... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
to involve parents in their children's education," observes Kanter, noting enthusiastically that the partnership helped save Union City schools from state takeover. IBM's Reinventing Education program has met with similarly impressive... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
the US tax code tag? A: We do some tagging, but tagging is severely limited in reality relative to what the standard theory would say. Theory suggests we should tag height, gender, race, facial symmetry, place in birth order, native language, View Details
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
what I had always been looking for. It brings up some good questions. What actually is unconditional love? Had I ever loved anything or anyone unconditionally? Had I ever experienced unconditional love? The immediate answer is, “of course, my View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Coorg, which was established by my parents in the sixties and is now run by my sister. — JA John Doerr (MBA ’76) DOERR With hits that include Intuit, Amazon, and Google, venture capitalist John Doerr is the embodiment of Silicon Valley... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
strategic planning and new initiatives (1998–2005). Light became Acting Dean on August 1, 2005, upon the departure of Kim B. Clark, and Dean on April 24, 2006. While in graduate school at Harvard, Light met his future wife, Judy; they are the View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
health care industry's prognosis, several HBS alumni and faculty are pushing the medical and business boundaries with fixes that range from the technical to the biological. Your Own Medicine Three years ago, Gene Williams (MBA 1987) helped two View Details