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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as stewards of the commons. Social pressure fueled by socially... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Casey Gerald
and towns not (yet) known for entrepreneurship. Throughout the summer of 2013, the MBAs Across America team will travel across country in an RV, making week-long stops to record and promote the stories of local entrepreneurs, to help with specific challenges (such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
York, Baer had closely monitored the Giants’ plummeting finances and their unsuccessful attempts to get San Francisco voters to approve funds for a new stadium. After East Coast business hours and with Tisch’s blessing, he began... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Deborah A. Farrington
earned her the title of “Queen Midas” as the highest ranking female VC on the Forbes Midas List. Farrington’s experience at HBS has had a big influence on her career and she remains closely connected to the school. In 1999, as she was getting her first... View Details
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
United States in 1938 and came to work at Polaroid, had received a patent for an "Apparatus Employing Polarizing Light for the Production of Stereoscopic Images." The Vectograph consisted of an image for the left eye and another image for... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
development in the United States following her graduation from HBS. She fell in love with what was then Czechoslovakia during a visit to Central Europe and moved to Prague in 1991. "I worked in economic development and venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
raised $750,000 in seed funding from HBS alumnus Robert Doris (MBA 1977) and billionaire investor Mark Cuban. The HourlyNerd executive team graduated from HBS in May, but the company has already grown to 20-plus employees, including... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Reservoir; fund a permanent New England Forest Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; and establish an environmental scholarship at Harvard College, his undergraduate alma mater. Another Zofnass project in the news recently... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
appearing in major news magazines. Then came a state visit from U.S. President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) in March, the same month HBS inaugurated its global research center in Mumbai (see sidebar, page 29). “Everything you hear about India... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Profile
Larry Braithwaite
"entrepreneurship and urban development, exploring the intersection between business and mission-oriented work." Recognizing the need for credible business experience, he spent three years with a major Wall Street firm and another three years at a real-estate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
increasing shareholder value. When the alumni invest in our faculty — by funding professorships or supporting the activities of the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning, for example — they are supporting present needs while also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
who have different organizational commitments and alliances?” It is just one of the many new breed of science/business management questions on which HBS will increasingly focus. Related Links A Binary Formula HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
Brin had graduated from the University of Maryland, he was such an academic star that the National Science Foundation helped fund his Ph.D. studies. It turned out to be a good bet. Brin teamed with Larry Page while the two pursued their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
practice of management worldwide. The influence of the campaign is already visible throughout HBS, from Spangler Center to Hawes Hall to the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The campaign has also raised significant unrestricted funds to... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
govern the world of atomic and subatomic particles, are inherently probabilistic. Until the state of a qubit is measured, it is neither 0 nor 1, but rather some distribution of probabilities that it could be either, all existing... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor—sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Mira Mehta
conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I didn't have that experience at any... View Details
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
World Wildlife Fund-US (How World Wildlife Fund Partners with Companies on Climate Change): “You can make a difference as long as you acquire the ability to connect the dots between sectors, because it is when you collaborate between... View Details