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- 04 Sep 2019
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A Wide Screen Approach
platforms at once. “Nobody had streamed a service at that scale before,” says Wilson. “We were holding our breath, because we were basically betting our business that this was going to be a successful pivot.” It felt like a sharp turn not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
Stroeer left her job as a consultant in 2015 and converted a van to live out of as she ran, climbed, and hiked through the backcountry, she didn’t plan on turning her lifestyle into a one-woman business. But, she says, “I realized very... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
elaborate rules that turned the game of Monopoly into a battle of pint-sized real-estate moguls. "One of the most interesting things about this business is that you see people at their ultimate point of crisis." "One of the most... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Dan Fenn
Approaching Sound of Change"; and "The Myth of the Successful Businessman." As I thought about this piece, I recalled the many lively stories of interesting alumni: the publisher of the Old Farmer's Almanac; the uranium prospector turned... View Details
Keywords: Dan Fenn
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
make sure you have answers. You have to be solid on your numbers. You can’t say “Hey, let me turn to page three here to see what our sales were last year.” It has to all be in your head when you’re in front of the sharks. But it wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
turning honest mistakes into ethical failures. But when people are acting as fiduciaries or when their decisions affect the lives and well-being of millions of people around the globe, reckless judgment becomes a matter of public concern... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
skills. That’s where the CAP program comes in, says Horwitz. HBS alumni in Boston are currently working with the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence to develop a long-term plan and a marketing strategy to turn the grassroots... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
the initial workflow issues have been resolved. On-site finish work turned out to be a major problem. It’s the general contractor’s job to hook up the utilities and finish interior details once Greentech assembles its modular structures.... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
company. Finally, in 1990, my wife and I purchased a controlling interest in a middle-market manufacturing company with a successful, proprietary product line. I served as president for the first 10 years, and then my wife took her turn... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
leadership. The writing team also added business executive Kent Lineback, whose executive experience included roles at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Harvard Business School Publishing before he turned to executive coaching... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned.” For example, in her... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
midnight Friday in the WOC chute at the west end of Baker Library).” Exceeding the word limit, or turning in the paper after the deadline, Wailes notes, would incur a one-grade penalty (e.g., from Satisfactory to Low Pass). Gordon... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
MBA, however, I would like to think I could have turned the company around as effectively as the new management, and make many of the same decisions they did—decisions that were right for the times. There isn't a course I took at HBS that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
alumni who throw pots, drink wine, tell jokes, and collect baseball cards—for fun. (And, yes, some have turned their passions into their professions.) How to: Jump Out of an Airplane Our instructor: Alejandro Montagna (MBA 1996), skydiver... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
and showing that I'm a discrete person that I'm not going to screw you, that I'm not going to make your life miserable. And once that word gets around, other doors are bound to open up for you. And I had to do some crazy things to get this story, you know? One of these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
darkness, several men appeared in front of them and then several more behind them. It was the Służba Bezpieczeństwa or SB as it was commonly known. “You run left, I’ll run right,” Maj told Janek. Maj took the posters; Janek took the printing machine. Maj was fast, but... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
would turn us down, because they already had so many commitments. But they all said yes. They rearranged their schedules, telling us, 'I want to be a part of this!'" With the program and faculty (which was 60 percent female) in place,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
first Outstanding Educator Award. Christensen’s “Second Adventure” Christensen turned his attention to case-method teaching in the second half of his career at HBS. HBS ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, BAKER LIBRARY HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
curves at sixty miles an hour!” Any entrepreneur can tell you how well the same description suits the wild ride of a start-up, and the e-mail coming through on Gisholt’s Trio promised a perilous turn of its own. Back at company... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
would be accepted,” says Ryan. “But I also wanted to do something that I loved.” Earning an MBA at HBS turned out to be a way to marry his skills and his passion, and the life-changing impact of that experience inspires him to give back.... View Details