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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European Enterprises Development (EED).... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
VC investing and innovation? A: Buyout groups in fact exacerbated much of the volatility in the venture capital cycle. During the late 1990s, many buyout groups began abandoning the basic industries in which they had traditionally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone
hired by Goldman Sachs. In the late 1990s, he joined Merrill Lynch to run the global capital markets and then later moved to Morgan Stanley, where he managed all the firm’s Italian businesses from its Milan headquarters. “My goal is to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
separate from Amazon’s logistics operations and distribution centers in the state. Those early HBS visits, the article notes, were to drop in at a class taught by current Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Rayport, who wrote an early case study on Amazon. It was the View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
immediate steps to tighten quality assurance requirements on Mattel's suppliers. There has been no effort to duck behind blaming suppliers and distributors or, even worse, consumers—as Audi attempted to do in the famous unintended acceleration recall of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Career Wanted
moving to part time for family or lifestyle reasons. In late career, we often see people who are downshifting or exploring the nonprofit sector. There’s also a spike two or three years after graduation, when young managers often realize... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Executive Action
arena," Dean Nitin Nohria said at the groundbreaking. This generous gift was given in tribute to the life and legacy of the late Ruth Mulan Chu Chao, beloved matriarch of an accomplished Chinese-American family that sent four daughters to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
PROFESSOR DAVID MOSS As a graduate student in history and economics at Yale, John G. McLean Professor David Moss struck up a friendship with the late Nobel laureate James Tobin that changed his perspective. Again and again, Professor... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
ago also provided investor-friendly provisions that protected shareholders from abuses by large shareholders, managers, and other corporate insiders—protections that were even better than what was offered in the country in the late 20th... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Home to HBS
their last Valentine’s day around my schedule since I was in Boston for work and available to meet for just two hours: one went late to Valentine’s dinner with her husband, the other left work early. It didn’t matter if there’s traffic or... View Details
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From Classroom to Workplace: Theory to Practice | Baker Library
Institute, Harvard University. TC 172-2-76 Women graduates of the business education programs at Harvard University from the late 1930s to the early 1970s found work in wide-ranging fields: retail, publishing, banking, investment... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
of his session: “Two minutes late starting, and half a dozen seats are empty — some things don't change.” Yoffie launched a case discussion analyzing Microsoft's success, using it as a springboard to introduce the principles of “judo... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Looking back, how should the company's restructuring be assessed? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811030-PDF-ENG Caijing Magazine (B) Karthik Ramanna and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Supplement 112-049 In View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
customer loyalty has remained stubbornly consistent for forty years. Holt showed how the value of the hillbilly allegory was destroyed by the hippie counterculture in the late Sixties. Mountain Dew responded with a new "redneck... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to be a Customer
How-to books targeting customers often focus on how to game the system, how to return the cocktail dress on Monday after you've worn it once on Saturday, how to exploit manufacturer warranties and satisfaction guarantees (often, ironically, at the expense of other... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 08 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
On the Road: HBS Midwest Tour
started the last season of Friday Night Lights on Netflix on the trip. I’m at least 4-5 years behind the times, but I say better late than never. 3. What questions came up during the events? Questions surrounding non-traditional... View Details
- 06 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
The MS/MBA Technology Showcase: A Celebration of Our Startups
Showcase, I shared our story and our mission with my classmates, our advisors, and the broader MS/MBA community. Late hours spent doing customer interviews, applications submitted between MBA classes, and our multiple pivots all felt... View Details
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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
their journey through the swampy area around to the Business School. Friends and colleagues of the late John W. Weeks, a businessman and politician, donated more than $200,000 for the construction of the elegant brick-and-limestone... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting
Harvard Business School hosted its annual fall Alumni Board Meeting in late September, bringing together its members for a three-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs,... View Details