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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA '01) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug research. "A number of the scientists decided that being part of a start-up wasn't for them, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
of a start-up wasn’t for them, but one key person stayed,” Machiels recalls. “The Internet bubble had just burst, but we were still able to secure a funding commitment. Unfortunately at the same time I started to realize that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
What is it about HBS that has produced such a steady stream of remarkable entrepreneurs whose endeavors have changed American life in the postwar decades? The creative impact of the case method, as noted earlier, should not be underestimated. But in addition to that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
battling among themselves, were willing to pay ever-increasing sums for the rights to broadcast sports. Charles G. "Chase" Carey (MBA '81), chairman and CEO of Fox Television, was the driving force behind Fox's broadcast agreements with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
Gee, I wonder if any famous Harvard entrepreneurs started out this way. No Butts about it If there is such a thing as an entrepreneurial addiction, David H. de Weese (MBA '65) is hooked. The founder of or key strategist in several... View Details
- Profile
Georges F. Doriot
brought clarity and introduced a system. He recognized several key elements in the process. Real companies take time to build. Young companies need several rounds of equity—not debt. Most importantly, treat shareholders—the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
From that vantage point, he observed social media's key role in the Arab Spring and was so impressed that he joined Twitter as an adviser. When the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, Kondo saw how Twitter enabled the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
that sees something that others don’t see. You have to be convinced that three other people with the same idea in Silicon Valley or Bangalore, India, would not be able to out-execute this team. Passion, tenacity, and a magnet-like ability to draw talent, supporters,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School by John Cortines and Gregory Baumer (both MBA 2015) (Rose Publishing) The authors tell a story of God’s transforming power and describe a lifestyle of giving that they call “radical generosity.” They outline the seven... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
medical industry; shelving units for retail consumer products; and high-tolerance firing pins for military applications. When it comes to per-piece cost for metal stampings, the United States is very competitive with China because labor is not a View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
frontline staff work with particular attention to patient safety issues and facilitated open-discussion meetings with employees about their safety related concerns. Data Collection. Hospitals submitted data on the operational failures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Arkansas. As I worked on Giants of Enterprise, I found to my surprise that my subjects all shared a number of traits, and these became the key lessons of the book. For instance, someone once said, "If you don't stand for something,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
diabetes and obesity that is engulfing the developing world. Jana Care aims to do so by building sensors and apps that can transform a mobile phone into a personal lab and lifestyle coach. The mobile phone as a key to diagnostics and... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
paper on studying the circumstances under which alignment will or will not happen. Using game theory, we find that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another important issue to consider:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
Photos by Rafael Monroy Daphne Leger (MBA 2012) did not enroll in business school to maximize profits, but rather to maximize social impact. “I firmly believe that business has a key role to play in solving social problems, and the power... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
Abstract—I propose and formalize an argument for why economists working in the welfarist normative tradition should include nonwelfarist principles in how they judge economic policy. The key idea behind this argument is that the world is... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
got great support from HBS in helping to return. They had heard that an HBS student had been checked into McLean and then, I reached out to the key person in the student services. So part of it was a lot of support that I got from HBS. I... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
often-essential government support for new development projects. With backing and financial contributions from governments, multinational corporations have it in their power to become the world's most effective means for reducing poverty. This unmatched power is based... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge