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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
story redefined my ideas about friendship and service. I am forever grateful. —Nique Fajors (MBA 1993) John was my Dean and an unforgettable role model throughout both my... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
Current business models seem no friendlier to stem-cell R&D than the existing political climate. But that could be on the verge of change, says Bruce Cohen (MBA ’82), president and CEO of Cellerant... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
savings and loans. I compare this disaster to a Greek epic, in which RCA is lured away from its core capabilities by "Sirens" consisting of the business press, the academy, and Wall Street, for whom... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
who she was—and maybe who she wanted to be. Falik never did find that outlet, which inspired her to build it herself. She spent her two years at HBS narrowing the vision and the model of an organization that... 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
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
victim to California’s statewide budget cuts. “Susan’s group came up with a new model of distributing funds district-wide instead of school-by-school,” Scheel explains. “Because of that, PiE appeals not just to individual donors, but also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
FALL 1967–WINTER 1968: Building the Model AASU cofounder George Price passed away in 2012. AASU cofounder George Price passed away in 2012. WILLIS: I went directly to the dean of admissions and asked, “What... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
cash to pay suppliers. I felt stupid for failing within a year, but performed a detailed post-mortem analysis and identified the reasons for my failure as poor business capitalization View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
created a hybrid model where paying clients subsidize the “free” clients. The whole organization, however, is doing only one thing, eye surgery or heart surgery or orthopedic surgery and so on. But to think... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
separate things out. And the way we make food right now is in parallel, so the different items in your order will be split up and different people will handle them then it’ll all come together. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
potential co-venturers is skilled, flexible, and honorable? How can they help when smart VCs pay more attention to the team than to the initial value proposition. Build the team that will buy you credibility—and of course, get the job... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
the raw bits and bytes," remarks Gerstner. A second strategy was built on the future of networked computing, a prescient decision made well before it became a prevalent business model with the rise of the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
dissatisfied with current approaches to solving a social dilemma, or they are excited about the potential of an alternative business model or a new technology to address a social need. Still others are simply responding when asked for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
elective, as well as a doctoral seminar on Research Design and Measurement. Silk's earlier work focused on developing models and measurement systems to support decisions in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
benefited 23 recipients, most from developing countries. Model Alumni With more than thirty thousand HBS MBAs now living and working outside the United States, it isn't difficult to find evidence of the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
that someone moved from the city manager at Mountain View is now the city manager in Oakland. There's just a little less of that cross-pollination and people just moving jobs every two years, which may be a good thing or a bad thing. So... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Katahira, an economist at the University of Tokyo. Years of economic stagnation and generational shifts mean that previous assumptions are quickly becoming obsolete, Katahira noted. "Japanese consumers and... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
company. “They shifted their model in the middle of our contract negotiation and told me, ‘We’re going after the phone companies, are you still in?’ Absolutely. I knew that was an example of an interesting... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna