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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
recent past. Even when the supply faltered, the demand never went away. And in the year that was just ending, Sahlman had taught first-year Finance to some 180 students—two sections of 90—who had rated him... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Ayr Muir: Hey Chris, where’s the medlar? These are medlar. Julia Hanna: Wow. Ayr: I’m trying to find a nice squishy one. So in... they were popular in medieval times and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
developed our courses,” said Bower. “The field of marketing developed around case writing in retail and consumer goods companies. The field of management accounting developed from cases on the use of numbers... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
look like when she was an investment banker. Originally from Los Angeles, Clarke is a “triple-winner” at Harvard, having earned her undergraduate, law, and business degrees from the University. While interest in such areas as... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
should be as well versed in those possibilities as anyone building consumer apps or SaaS for enterprise. It’s also an incredibly perilous moment for technology and the impact it’s having on society—whether... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
that we hadn’t structured our capital right; we had a payment problem. In the consumer world, if I walked out of a store without paying, that’s called stealing. But in B2B it’s accepted that I’ll deliver my product or service View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
estimated 90,000 people would die there before the end of the war. Commandant Franz Ziereis, who oversaw the brutality at the camp, supervised the beatings and interrogations of the OSS team personally. He interrupted one to View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
individual," explains Bhide. "Important but obvious background information, which might otherwise consume over one-half of class time, is presented within a matter of five or ten minutes. This creates an opportunity to explore more basic... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
Since cofounding the online product discovery platform The Grommet in 2008, Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) has enjoyed a front-row seat to the launch of 3,000 consumer products—including household names like Fitbit, SodaStream, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
grocers, drug stores, and discount stores like Costco. Peter asked me (a banker) what I thought of supermarkets accepting credit cards for groceries. I said that the grocery margins (~1%) wouldn’t support the discounts on card purchases,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
senior executives. They encouraged him, for instance, when he made early forays into television advertising in the 1960s and when he suggested that Tylenol, originally available only from physicians and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
restaurant Sonic—FirstBuild spent $600 to do a Google survey to gauge interest and then put out a design challenge to the FirstBuild community, collecting 29 ideas. Eventually, they’ll take the winning model to a crowdfunding platform to... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
more than 30 years of experience in VC, worldwide streaming channel development, digital media, and consumer products. “This is about using science and technology to address... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
mean that in the most positive sense, needless to say. What’s really funny is that all she’s doing is demanding due diligence.” For example, Cognetti was surprised to find out that the district rarely followed state or federal procurement... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
conditions and we know that it’s going to work incredibly well. And so that has allowed us to continue to have a pace of innovation that matches consumer internet companies,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
information technology capped an eighty-year trend in which decision rights moved mostly downward within business hierarchies," McCraw concludes, highlighting factors such as increased consumer power, intensified competition, View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
On a blustery late-December afternoon, sixty students sit watching a video case presentation in a darkened Aldrich Hall classroom. Participants in a special HBS orientation program for new international students,* they hail from thirty different countries, among them... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic tactics View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
credit to people they didn’t know from Adam. This, and the devastating economic effects of the Panic of 1837 and the recession that lingered in its aftermath well into the following decade, contributed to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna