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- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and extraordinarily detailed maps. Leading YOU: The Power of Self-Leadership to Build your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence (MBA 1991) (Global Insight Communications, LLC) The most important driver of overall... View Details
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
Fenn, Jr., Edward L. Anthony (MBA '52), and Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD). Volume I, number 1 of the Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin appeared on January 3, 1925, after a three-year trial as a special section of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin. The tentative... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
present I am working on understanding how the career trajectories of founders affect the performance of their firms. 2. Entrepreneurship in creative industries: While this area is related to the first, I am particularly interested in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
minority college juniors and seniors to general management issues through the case method and encourages them to consider careers in business. A Saturday morning packed with sessions covered topics ranging from consolidation in the media... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
answers. But fortunately my friends came around me and supported me during this difficult period; my boss did as well. And I came through that. But what I learned from that is I was always planning for the future. You got to realize life... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
authority and stature inside the company, who's putting together a real plan with real goals that are going to be held accountable based on compensation, just like you would be doing anything else in business. And then would be... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
growth was one of the biggest stories in e-commerce, especially when the retailer attracted $50 million in investment from Index Ventures, a top VC firm that funded other successful retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Etsy, in 2013. Yet, with a cash infusion, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
create given their love of the outdoor life. Still, it was a strange alliance between a scruffy, eccentric outdoorsman and two clean-cut East Coast, Ivy League Republicans on the fast-track for careers in finance or politics. After... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
2012, Phil Strause (MBA 1967), a former boss from an early career stint at Deloitte, sent Lo a business plan for a vertical farming company. She forwarded it on to the German investor, whose family, it so... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
traditional ways of getting work done, and organizations where “lines and boxes” still define how people are managed. As work and organizations have become more fluid and business strategy is no longer about planning years ahead but about... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Photo courtesy of Francis Tapon Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) was off to a bright tech career after HBS, working at a Silicon Valley startup before stints at Hitachi and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
a lot of doors. - Peter Tufano "Most of us spend the lion's share of our careers teaching thousands of people the way to earn millions of dollars," observes Peter Tufano, the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and chair... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
employees in anticipation of signaling benefits, which include the accrual of visibility and the projection of quality-based identities. We validate our perspective on publicizing affiliation information by analyzing how a sample of Australian wine producers publicized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
tenure on the board and a prior career in investment banking/investment management are associated with proposing standards perceived as decreasing accounting "reliability"; while contributions to the Democratic Party are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
work. Alfred Chandler: The road that led me to write Inventing the Electronic Century had a bit of a twist and turn. I originally planned a single study in comparative institutional history called "Paths of Learning: The Evolution of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner