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- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
line managers and CEOs will find compelling. The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives, a completely new edition of the best-selling book by journalist Frances Cairncross of the Economist, explains how the world is changing with the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
surprising that the venture capital industry was essentially dormant at the time. But with the growth of the microprocessor and of biotechnology in the late 1970s, as well as the deregulation of the airline and financial services... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no other new player in the toy View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
protected economic climate that managed business by issuing a limited number of permits in each industry and dictated production quantities. “When I started in business in the 1960s, many of our companies didn’t have a profit plan;... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
fan to be comfortable with consuming musical experiences in a virtual format.” —Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) Dan Morrell: Artist and activist Madame Gandhi got her big break in the music industry when she was invited to join the group MIA on... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
Bulletin coverage of technology centered on areas such as aviation, energy, and automation. A 1928 article on radio, for example, noted that "with the exception of aviation, no other industry has so swiftly passed from the stage of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
targets than others for computer criminals. But any business that uses the Internet is susceptible to indiscriminate attacks by worms and viruses, making the firm potentially liable should those attacking worms and viruses move on to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
conference. There are few in the industry who can claim a similar veteran status: Rothrock had recently taken over as CEO of the cybersecurity firm RedSeal after 25 years at Venrock. For 24 of those years, he was focused on tech,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
audio broadcasting technology to bring satellite radio to all corners of Africa. Koos Bekker, managing director of Naspers, a leading media and communications group in South Africa, discussed his firm's Internet and pay television... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
Netscape research was documented in Competing on Internet Time, an earlier book by Yoffie and MIT colleague Michael A. Cusumano, and inspired Yoffie to pursue the concept further. After tracking references to judo in the management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the Internet age, often because many... View Details
- 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 she realized that the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneurial powerhouse. Carolyn’s mix of pep talk and tough love got Tyra to where she is today, and here they pay it forward to empower readers. Whether they’re writing about watching Tyra’s most imperfect moment go viral or how they’ve overcome everything from... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
H. Stevenson, for instance, discussed the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship at HBS and beyond. Professor Malcolm S. Salter addressed "Facing the Modern Industrial Revolution," focusing on the tools established companies can use... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
first-date spot: In their online profiles, women got younger and men got taller. As the stigma of online dating faded, the idea arose that the Internet could make dating easier for everyone. Asking someone on a date via email was less of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
1991): to provide continuous Internet access to the planet’s unconnected billions through, in Cassidy’s words, a “complex choreography where thousands of balloons are being steered and programmed all in an automated fashion.” The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
when you look at the B2B applications, Menard explains. He points to a number of tech disruptions that are happening in parallel, including low earth orbit satellites, cloud storage, edge computing, Internet of Things networks,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint