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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
When did you and your cofounder come up with the idea for Bubble (Bubble is a visual programming tool that empowers anyone to build software, apps, and websites without writing any code)? Josh Haas, my cofounder, came up with the idea... View Details
- 10 May 2019
- News
Shining a Light on Black Brilliance
culture at HBS. “If there's an area that I believe I made a difference here at Harvard Business School, it is with the creation of my course, Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship. That course has provided the opportunity for me to View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
January 4, 2010) “In transforming a home into just another investment, we have created a class of homeowners who treat their commitment to their homes much as they would treat any bad investment.” — HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas writing... View Details
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Israel - Global Activities 2021
program director of the School’s Agribusiness Seminar, to author the case. “We are in the middle of a desert without a lot of rainfall.” Reinhardt, who notes that Golan’s on-the-ground presence in Israel was instrumental in writing the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Words and Pictures
(more than 500) since the project’s launch. Deifell has always been interested in the power of photographs and storytelling to connect people to each other and in helping people lead lives of meaning and resilience. He sees the essays that students View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
substitutability is preserved under economically important transformations such as trade endowments, mergers, and limited liability. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54957 Harvard Business School Case 418-004 Nicholas Kristof and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2020
- News
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
in the seeming permanence of nature and trees, whose leafy branches provided solace to her as a child. “I kept my job and my passions in separate boxes,” writes Henderson, who joined Harvard Business School in 2009 and is now the John and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with James Andrew Miller
The then 24-year-old didn’t know he had something big on his hands until his agent negotiated a publishing deal: “That’s your first peek at what the market potential is,” Miller says. Miller went on to write Live from New York, a history... View Details
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Michael Maples
grown up working on one of the original IBM PCs and writing video game software in high school. He went to Stanford and became even more involved with computers. His father, Mike Maples, Sr., was a successful IBM executive and a... View Details
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
Yet for a number of reasons their research rarely permeates into wider literatures. Q: Why does business history research remain in a silo? A: I think there are at least three reasons. First, business historians often write big books on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
went away. So RedSeal tries to quantify the architecture, quantify the equipment, quantify all the elements of the network, to tell you whether or not you can survive hitting a tree. Morrell: What compelled you to write this book?... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
reminded of this by a wave of new books describing management practices in Silicon Valley firms, many of them from founders and managers of high tech firms who are just now finding time to write about their accomplishments. Several have... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
role of leaders for centuries. Plato, writing his Republic in the fourth century B.C., argued that the ideal city would have an elaborate system to choose its leaders that made any individual leader replaceable. Thucydides, View Details
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Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
either address a topic approved by the instructor or one of the following topics: Using course frameworks, analyze factors that contributed to the failure of a startup of their choosing. Write a “pre-mortem” for a going concern—or a... View Details
Making Sense of Past and Present
entrepreneurs managed through many tricks and traps to write the untold rules of capitalism. Professor Jones’s course also pushed me to deeply think about my intrinsic values as a leader and entrepreneur. What do I stand for? What is my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future
to be the new Alumni Board president at a time that will shape HBS for decades to come. With great change comes great opportunity, and I hope that as alums we take advantage of the opportunity to strengthen our engagement with the School and become a part of View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
hepatitis B from $20 to $1. “Close to consumers, they understand the local market and health-delivery infrastructure,” write Daar and Singer. “They have the potential to invent and develop drugs at far lower cost than northern biotechs... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
questioning and learning." Cassell immersed himself in the writings of cutting-edge thinkers and research on the subject of learning. "I came across more and more material that criticized the traditional processes of education that had... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
have told her that Haines’ quiet insistence made them take the warnings to evacuate more seriously. “Unfortunately, we all have this mindset that we’re on the phone or we’re writing an e-mail, and that we have to finish whatever it is... View Details