Ideas - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2001
News

Steven Rogers

"but that idea really crystallized when I went to Cummins and saw a Fortune 500 company that made values an integral part of its mission statement." Rogers' own values were tested shortly after a 1981 move to rural North Carolina. Upon... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade

20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online

Thereafter, the user's email and password identify him or her as a qualified veteran or active military member as they log in to participating partners' sites across the web. Back in 2006, when Hall led 46 men under his command on patrols through the streets of... View Details

Keywords: veterans; identity; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

entrepreneurship, research, and academia. They also share a trait we can probably all relate to—more than a few had no idea they would end up where they did. Extreme Talent “The Atlantic was founded in 1857, and it had a fantastic 19th... View Details

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

ago. We’re also seeing more Chinese students applying to our high schools. These young scholars are often China’s best and brightest, and they are bringing back ideas and outlooks that present challenges to the current government, which... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2015
News

The Business of Love

relationships; OkCupid, founded in 2004, which popularized the idea that data could solve the dating dilemma; and niche sites from JDate and ChristianMingle to FarmersOnly. The number and diversity of the sites helped reduce the stigma... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

the space before he arrives, Mareva sits down to reminisce about HBS. She came to appreciate it all anew in 2011 when, after a dozen years in investment banking at Deutsche Bank and running her own asset management firm, she became an entrepreneur. The View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

consumer technology - no matter how amazing or elegant - means nothing unless it is useful, convenient, and readily accepted by customers. The fact that his wife's MBA degree didn't ease the drudgery of tracking the family's finances gave Cook, a veteran of Procter &... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

organizer and HBSAB board member Radha Bennett (MBA 2014), adding that only about 2 percent of VC funding goes to women founders. That doesn’t mean they won’t find VCs to back them, just that they might have to pitch their ideas to many... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2002
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Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this understanding back into our... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

and so many of the ideas that came to be taught were developed by the faculty. The cases were shorter and simpler but still raised important issues. Most of the students enjoyed the few lectures that the faculty offered because it was... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

phase four is the single-patient clinical trial. Morrell: So you are trying to build this new model of customized medicine and your first proof of concept is your brother. Horgan: That’s exactly right. And the idea isn’t just, let’s do... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

sort of drug addiction, my mother who suffered from mental illness had started to disappear. And I guess, if I was a psychologist, I'd say, I, at 11, decided that I would be perfect in everything that I could control. I remember when my mother started disappearing, I... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Meal Plan

walking into a little place, knowing a few people, and sitting at the same table. Michael Kaufman: Just the idea that we can gather in a restaurant would be the most important thing to me. My wife is as a physician, and she can’t imagine... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

told us who Laure was, had described her as une très belle négresse, a very beautiful black woman. And he had painted her in a way that picked up on a lot of the painting style that ultimately became Impressionism of a very specific individual. Orsay embraced that... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

realizes - he doubted whether principles and ideas applicable to U.S. companies could always be "taken out of context and dumped into completely different firms" elsewhere. In developing economies, such as India, Sastry reasoned, "we have... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

business. It's not show friends. So the movies that we make have to make money. And so when I'm pitching this idea to Warner Brothers I make about a Lego Movie, I have to have in back of my head of course I'm pitching a creative vision... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

DeBere, who worked previously in international development in Nairobi, Kenya, and consulting in his native London, incubated the idea for Afya Pamoja—which means “health together” in Swahili—at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),... View Details