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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
"a huge chicken-and-egg game" between signing up data suppliers and finding customers willing to pay for the data. But Mueller's perseverance has paid off. Mueller attributes much of Internet Securities' success to learning what customers... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Inspiration Is Not Enough
“human transporter.” But tons of funding and big-name partners couldn’t overcome consumer reluctance. “Kamen endowed Segway with many positive attributes but not enough to break through and claim commercial success,” Harris writes. Many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
on skills or education or experience. It is based on personal attributes and approaches to life. Specifically, I have divided the book into four sections: gaining perspective, managing yourself, leading others, and building values. Were... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
chemical-industry giant Monsanto in St. Louis, Price had an epiphany. He realized that "the people who run the world are businesspeople" and that many had studied at Harvard. So he set his sights on HBS. When Price and his wife, Joyce (to whom he View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
grading standards? Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the "fundamental attribution error." The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking Senator John Heinz Professor of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
Corporate Director's Guidebook, the basic attributes for board service eligibility are common sense, practical wisdom, and informed judgment. Add to these baseline qualities the skills and experience acquired during the course of one's... View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
Lloyd Zuckerberg (MBA 1990) attributes his love of architecture to weekend outings with his father. “I grew up in Nassau County, Long Island, where there was a master craftsman named José Allegue who built distinctive single-family... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
news programs were also the most “popular.” But that kind of program will only be popular if consumers place enough value on those attributes relative to others. The “flavors” of news offered at any point in time have always been those... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Stanford University in 1959. Beverly Hawes, a Boise native, earned her degree at Whitman College in Washington. The Haweses came to HBS with four young children (two more followed in 1973 and 1976), and Rod Hawes earned his MBA as a Baker Scholar. "I gave Beverly the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
bright blue feet,” he says. “It’s the one place on earth where you feel like you’ve travelled back one million years in a time machine.” Main Wilson attributes his energy and inspiration to his father, Dennis Main Wilson, a well-known... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
unaddressed. In Puerto Rico, fewer than 100 people died during the storm itself, but the death toll was later revised upward to 2,975 to include those whose deaths were attributable to the aftermath of the storm, including people who were... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies are often disruptive to established organizations because they have a different set of attributes that aren't valued in existing markets. Market potential can seldom be measured and profit margins are meager at best. Examples... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s success to maintaining an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
and reorders. He also focuses on the skills and attributes of the successful entrepreneur, including a separate chapter on what he calls "numeracy": the ability to understand and use numbers to help one's business. Included in the book is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
3,600 when we arrived to up to north of 14,000 right now, and our sponsorship base is up about five times since we got here four short years ago. So you're talking about like a exponential increase in revenue and success. And that can only be View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Kilar attributes to the free, ad-supported distribution model used by online platforms such as YouTube. Vessel’s message to creators is clear: Give us a three-day head start on streaming your video and our hybrid... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
Castaldo attributes Pollo Tropical's success to a “high-value equation” that features freshly prepared food of restaurant quality at fast-food prices. “While the quick-service business has tried to take the labor out of food preparation,... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
and much research has pointed to-- the incredible creativity, innovative thinking that is often attributed to those with mental health conditions. But I also think, living with a mental health condition gives you a depth of experience... View Details