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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Comfort Zone
your laptop and settle in to work—then you want a coffee. Instead of giving up your spot, you connect with a retailer on your phone, place an order, share your location, and the coffee is delivered to you. We’ll see more and more of these seamless technologies, View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and companies are kept... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
cancers and affect millions of lives. How did they reach this crossroads? The answer lies within a story that can be traced back to a chance meeting at HBS. In 1999, five months after enrolling at HBS, David crossed paths with Jen while walking through campus, View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
friend of Sheets, is the director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, an adjunct professor of economics at SMU, and leads the Bush Institute’s work on domestic economic policy and economic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
are small, independent units. Those informal mom-and-pop joints often don’t show up on delivery apps, so hungry consumers have fewer options than their US counterparts. Azuero and Izquierdo aim to fill that gap with their own virtual brands, and the platform’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
A radiologist and technician at Misr Radiology Center review images taken of a patient and discuss protocol for a brain PET/MRI exam. “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care, View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
rate than the 300 percent annual growth it saw from 2002 to 2007. (Redbox lets would-be renters search locations and reserve titles online.) With a background in high-growth start-ups, Kaplan is already involved in a number of new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
Illustration by John Kachik Depending on which business school ranking you consult, the best MBA program in 2010 was at the University of Chicago, HBS, the London Business School, or Stanford University. Among the five leading media... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
quarterly earnings reports, reflecting the complexity of corporate restructurings and other long-term growth strategies. There are important implications of these differences for public company boards, even though they operate with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young Abenaki and the daughter of an elder settler. A crime reverberates... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Hobbies Golf, skiing, reading Recommended Reading The Future of Life, by E.O. Wilson "Wilson is lyrical in his expression of some very complex ideas concerning biodiversity and the fate of life on Earth." Helping to lead a revolution of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
grantmaking, reporting, or evaluation, they discuss topics such as going beyond check writing and traditional volunteering, advocating for change, leveraging business, forging peer networks, empowering individuals, leading adaptively, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
many firms have not instituted a process for managing the development of potential leaders. Many have not even thought about the process of selecting a leader when the time comes for change. And as a result, they are as confused about who should View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, the business leaders... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
affairs. Enron’s approach to compensation and incentives included many perverse features, such as encouraging growth over profitability and rewarding employees for closing commodity deals and power-generation projects without concrete... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
growth and with the top tiers in emerging markets relatively small, business is beginning to eye this huge population at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) as a viable and essential market. Indeed, it is only in the last decade, thanks in... View Details