Event Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1998
News

Diversity and Community

shines on White House honorees - illuminated these issues, and their HBS champions, in high relief. It was an indication of how much these matters have come to the fore. At a February 11 awards ceremony and daylong program of events in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

countries; seemingly successful governments that had managed to reform economies were defeated by newcomers that promised more emphasis on the welfare state. This clash was interesting to us. Many economists advocate including a tax... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

influence them. The Harvard MBA felt right – I was going to spend two years debating cross-functional business ideas in a classroom with 90 other talented peers. How did your MBA prepare you for your first job after graduating? I worked for Warner Bros. Television... View Details

02 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

marketing to them. I had the opportunity to work with brands on exclusive show sponsorships, large tentpole events and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation to restore public school music programs. When my husband and I moved to Boston, I... View Details

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From Brainstorm to Breakthrough: HBS IT Hackathon Inspires AI Innovations | Information Technology

learn and work with AI. While the event was designed as a fun exploration of AI tool use cases, some teams went on to further develop their projects and integrate them into their work. In this article, we'll spotlight three examples of... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

data and enhance the faculty’s understanding of key research topics. The second phase of alumni outreach and involvement began in March 2012 with a series of “Paths Forward” events in New York; Charlotte; Washington, DC; San Francisco;... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

only with its own equipment. The establishment of XTV was driven by two events in 1988. First, several senior Xerox managers were involved in negotiating and approving a spin-off from Xerox, ParcPlace, which... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807018 Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading Harvard Business School Case 707-494 In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an internal report on government and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit’s fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable by 2016. Management worked... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

the richest breeding grounds for coding superstars: the hackathon. These high-pressure weekend events of furious engineering can be an incredible environment for diffusion of knowledge, argues Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

In a forthcoming paper in Management Science, Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices, based on the CT scan case, Luo and Galasso discover that the accidents, while tragic, ultimately increased innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

European Football Associations Champions League Final on television—that's 61 percent of German households—according to Nielson. Television remains a very important medium for sports broadcasting. Viewers tend to watch sports events live,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

City, a metropolis reeling from the shock of the horrible events of 9/11 and facing enormous economic and cultural challenges. Bloomberg led the city back to its feet and through the financial crisis that began in 2008. His focus on... View Details

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

cancel company events that would have required customers or employees to travel to Indiana. And Apple CEO Tim Cook authored an op-ed in The Washington Post to oppose the legislation. The public outcry against the RFRA seemed to make an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

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Commencement 2015 Address | About

think of Perspective, I think back to an event that happened on our campus last month. Terry Virts, a graduate of the General Management Program in Executive Education, addressed one of our classes. He is... View Details

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

not born but made. In a book dense with epiphanies, the most galvanizing one may be that the power to lead courageously resides in each of us. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53588 forthcoming Journal of Service View Details