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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
going to produce top-tier investment returns.” Exporting VC Dollars Nor is it enough to focus exclusively on the United States. “When I got into this business in 1979, deals were done in Boston and Silicon Valley and hardly anywhere else,” recalls Felda Hardymon, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Bloom admits. "It's not difficult conceptually, but as a practical matter, it's challenging to conduct baseline surveys before an investment and to track and measure students for the years that follow." With that understanding, decisions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
the fireplaces in the first-floor lounge,” Wheelwright continues. “There was concern about heat going up the chimneys, but we decided that fireplaces would make the student lounge a more attractive social gathering place. They make it feel a bit more homey.” On the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
and facing congressional charges of monopolistic practices and calls for their break up. And beyond that, says Alex, Silicon Valley is starting to lose its global monopoly on innovation. Lazarow: In 2013, you would have been right to say,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
trying to do a mediocre job for everybody? No. You get five I get five? I want something where you get eight and I get eight. So don't give me mediocre is balanced. I won't accept it. Morrell: Did you feel the pressure of delivering these statements at all? Did you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
aim to make rigorous impact-measurement approaches, like randomized controlled trials, practical and accessible to practitioners. In India, we are helping the State of Bihar improve a $200 million nutrition program. In Zambia, we are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
Practitioners Institute to share best practices and offer guidance to groups looking to adopt its approach to transforming neighborhoods battling poverty, poor health, underperforming schools, and high crime rates. Since 2005, HCZ has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
aren’t working may be more quickly eliminated; patients then can be moved over to the arms of the trial that are seeing a response. The group is working to analyze indicators contributing to the successes and challenges of platform trials; identifying best business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
much more involved in discussions.” Another tip Okonedo picked up has led to changes in how she and her colleagues approach potential research subjects. In Nigeria, she says, it is common practice for companies to hide information —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
what separates a practical approach to business decision-making from a more theoretical approach that says, “There is a right answer, and you just have to find it.” Life isn’t like that in my experience. LIGHT: “If there is an overarching... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
so convinced that we have to build a high end, more sensitive, sustainable kind of tourism practice to the region. I was very convinced by the proposal. And I quit my job and started the business. But also, at that time, I did rationally... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
people moving from rural provinces to work in coastal-region factories, this status translated into officially sanctioned lower wages and poorly monitored working conditions. This system is now under assault by the AFL-CIO, which regards “temporary” worker... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes, several newspapers simply posted... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
can show is that we are helping young people develop the habits around these high-impact practices that include asking for help when you need it. Developing a relationship with a mentor, blending in-class and out-of-classroom learning,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
today, we would all benefit from that. Morrell: But you're saying that we can't even really do that because it's not practical to program that. But, is it possible with Numenta's learning model to eventually do something? Dubinsky: Yes.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
from New York City, where she is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Her goals were to get the latest perspectives on management theory and practice and to take advantage of the informal networking she knew would take place... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
sometimes it does rhyme.” The response to current events does seem to parallel — or rhyme with — what occurred in reaction to the emergence of big business in the early 20th century. Here at HBS, where we sit at the intersection of View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
connecting research to practice among our other initiatives. The i-lab continues in its extraordinary role of bringing together students from across the University and turning new ideas into practice. Meanwhile, our yearlong celebration... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
learned to spend alone time and practice mindfulness. Also learned how strong and resilient I am in the face of adversity; 2020 helped me refocus on what is truly important and clarify my purpose. I enjoy coaching global executives on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
start and grow their own business. The president of the worldwide MIT Alumni Association, he brings an insider’s view based on three decades of successful, serial entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley. His book combines practical principles,... View Details