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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working in an View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
running teaching programs, and conducting research. Most of these activities have had a very important component: developing our own faculty. I'm sure that whatever we do in the future in the global arena will have that same goal of broadening our own perspectives. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume just 32 percent by 2050, while the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
physicians’ services? Health-care providers are as constrained by managed care as consumers. Other industries enjoy much greater freedom. Grocery retailers, for example, serve a variety of customers in outlets ranging from discount clubs... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
increased competition or Booz, Allen & Hamilton's emergence into the world market, HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, who is chair of the unit, notes that "the course material is immediately useful to our students. It involves people... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
emerged after the booming 1990s and the resulting public uproar that forced Congress to pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act were eerily similar to the period leading up to the market crash of 1929. Coming out of that, the president of the New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
intense, markets tend to form, with supply responding to demand, in spite of controversy. Thus, with the potentially huge, lucrative, and beneficial industry that could emerge from embryonic stem-cell... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
answering President Kennedy’s call to give back. He then transitioned to the private sector. “I’ve always been interested in how leadership leads to service,” says George, who served in senior executive positions at Honeywell and Litton View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
which was sourcing originals for its new hotel in Oakland, for example, and a florist who was staging a large-scale but short-term installation at Instagram’s headquarters. At first Giridharadas was simply hoping to build a better market for area ceramists. She set out... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
itself from a competitive perspective to continue its growth and stand out from the other industry players?" The Answers: "I would suggest looking at the business model and trying to extend the brand by extending the offering. Cellphones... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
for women to think more about their marriage prospects than their business future. Nevertheless, Haberkorn walked into the Baltimore employment office of the AT&T-owned Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland and landed a job in the telecommunications View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
the very "soul" of e-business in a rapidly emerging e-culture. E-culture, she writes, "involves better ways of leading, organizing, working, and thinking." It is an environment in which individuals must evolve if they are to become... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
Patriots' emergence through his adept handling of players' salary and contract issues, day-to-day operations, and the construction of a new stadium, where the Pats will play next season. "In the background, but really in the forefront of... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
investments, the key to success is to buy low and sell high. Buying low in the art world requires purchasing the work of emerging artists and hoping they become a success, just as a venture capitalist invests in many startups in hopes... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
skyward above the flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site’s several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future — and on a dramatically new, View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
alumni are hard-wired to be proactive. We’re used to leading,” says Seftel. “There’s a lot of frustration, and they’re asking, “how can we help?’” Through the Slack channel, alumni are already sharing ideas for how they can respond to the crisis within their own... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
2003. But the road ahead remains uncertain for many, especially those not in the top ranks in terms of size and investment track record, say industry veterans. For all but the leading firms, raising money remains difficult. And deciding... View Details