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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Reawakening rural America
Jack Schultz (MBA 1976) founded Agracel, an industrial development firm, to boost the economies of rural America in places such as Teutopolis, Illinois, the small farming hamlet where he grew up. The Effingham, Illinois-based View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
The following is an excerpt that was adapted and lightly edited from chapter nine of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win, written by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao and published August 20, 2024. In... View Details
- 6 PM – 8 PM EST, 01 Feb 2016
Alumnae Circles Open House: Boston
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
them to move ahead with it as quickly as possible, even though some colleagues questioned his decision to pour costly resources into a drug meant for a relatively small number of patients. "If your goal is to reduce suffering and cure... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
going into consulting or investment banking. What I was interested in was the grain merchandising business. His class was very popular and tough, and I loved it. Somehow it struck me—all these large companies that move giant quantities of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- Web
Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
represented in the deal books are extremely diverse, from small companies that survived only a few years to Fortune 500 companies that still exist today.The collection... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third of Clay’s revenue in the first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including small landlords sharing the property and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Paris Wallace
Paris Wallace is one of those serial entrepreneurs with ambition that transcends wealth creation. Wallace is focused on changing people’s lives in a dramatic fashion. Ovuline, his latest venture for example, is a company aimed at helping... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
surrounding which technologies and fuels will “win” the market. The shipping companies can reduce their risk exposure by making small investments until a winner emerges. Meanwhile, while it is unclear which... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
challenges, at times through public-private partnerships, can represent a "great investing opportunity" for companies like GE, he said. "When you're a big company, you have to play in big places," he said. "We can... View Details
- Profile
Shaun Miller
experience shaped your goals & career path? I came to HBS knowing that I would have a wide array of career options, but not knowing which direction appealed to me the most. I took advantage of every opportunity to learn about various paths that might interest me -... View Details
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Andreas Jaegle
In Eichstätt, the small Bavarian town where Andreas Jaegle grew up, the Jäegle family managed a fleet of more than 180 buses, a family-owned business they had run for more than 100 years. “But I wasn’t under any pressure to run it... View Details
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Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the privilege, who didn't have the opportunity? What can I do, whether small or large, to make a difference? Impact For me, such a big piece of my work is the intellectual challenge of what I do. At Eos Foundation we collaborate with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
Heidi Duckler, has had a modern dance company that performs in unusual urban spaces all over the world—the firing range of the LA Police Academy, a laundromat. Her work causes us to see the ordinary in extraordinary ways.” Pas de deux:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of innovation clearly... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement
devices and the social determinants of health. But I quickly realized that while science could solve problems, it was the intersection of healthcare and business that could scale solutions. This realization propelled me into consulting, where I learned how big... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
company I was considering joining after school. Enter Plaid. Plaid is a startup that enables businesses to access their users’ financial information by streamlining the connection to their users’ bank accounts. This service is not only... View Details