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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
lights and other electrical devices for three days before it’s swapped out for one that has been recharged. Customers pay a yearly subscription fee per battery and a small fee for each recharge. What comes next: On-the-ground research in... View Details
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
students learn how to apply discipline to the inexact science of valuing private enterprises." Running and Growing the Small Company The dramatic beginnings of entrepreneurial businesses have been much... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
'70), founder of beauty tool company Tweezerman. "tweezerman: Should We Take The Business To The Next Level Of Growth?" From Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got them Right By Thomas H.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
than 1,500 jobs and became a movement the locals nicknamed ramase lajan (“picking up money” in Haitian Creole), as they came to see plastic as a resource instead of garbage. Not surprisingly, Goodwin learned that demand from brands and View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
important to everyone and everything we do,” Wallace says. For a small company competing in a tight market, Ovia is counting on it being a winning strategy, and it has to start with getting the right people... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
experience developing a startup while at HBS. Can you tell us a bit about your start up? What resources were most helpful as an entrepreneur working in climate? I had tried starting a company a few years earlier with a View Details
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Kenny Salas
Kenny Salas, MBA 2015, came to HBS with a clear goal: "To work for a big company and gain operational experience." Then a combination of unexpected events changed his mind. After a summer internship at General Mills'... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
job-hunting targets. If you are searching only in Los Angeles, for example, think of other geographic areas. If you are looking only in large public corporations, consider small or private companies or... View Details
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Robert Reiss | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
started out as a waiter at resorts in upstate New York. He moved on after graduating from HBS to run the personalized-pencil division of a small New York company. He saw that as an opportunity to learn about running a business while... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
division. When Ralph Clark (MBA 1993) took over as CEO of ShotSpotter in 2010, he inherited a groundbreaking technology and a broken business model. The company uses sensors, strategically placed throughout an urban area, to instantly... View Details
Joe C. Thompson, Jr.
Though Southland was quite a successful block ice retailer in the 1920s, when home refrigerators became popular, the company suffered and was forced into bankruptcy in 1932. Seeing the budding success of the retail grocery store business... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
Alden envisioned a hybrid system he called the StaRRcar—a “car-like train” with small pods that a passenger could call like a taxi and would ride on rails directly to the desired destination. It was an idea ahead of its time, Adi... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP, which started View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
a rewarding field for American Research and is particularly well suited for creative capital investment. . . . In specialized technical areas with products protected by patents and know-how, it is easier for small View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
fight the allegations—at a total loss of $250,000. “When you win, you’re still minus $250,000,” said Cohen—which is exactly why many companies targeted with patent lawsuits decide to take a smaller hit by settling out of court early.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- Web
Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively - Course Catalog
privately held rather than publicly traded. Or they are publicly traded but privately controlled. For example, in the US, around 50% of publicly traded companies are controlled by founders or their descendants. In all of these cases, a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
Blues A shockingly low 25 percent of employees feel connection to their company's mission. Bill George discusses fixes to rebuild purpose in their work. How Small Wins Unleash Creativity The most powerful tool managers have to motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
because they are able to do different assignments. They are able to travel the country. They are able to go to large hospitals, small hospitals, and it gives them a lot of freedom at a higher pay than a traditional full-time nursing job.... View Details