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- 09 Jan 2019
- News
Why New England Needs New Ideas
foster economic prosperity. The trio offers the anecdote of Isaac Merritt Singer, a Charlestown-based printing machinery maker who became a sewing machine magnate thanks to a smart business model, a strategic sales approach, and consumer-friendly pricing structures.... View Details
Keywords: New England
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. On April 16, video screens were glowing as spectators watched the finale of HBS’s annual New Venture Competition (NVC). COVID-19 turned the competition into a virtual affair, but the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him the first noninsider CEO in its... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Product Innovation: What Business Leaders Need to Know
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
manufacturing plant in Rochester, New York. (His grandfather and a partner invented the plastic watch crystal in the early 1900s.) What he discovered: “I learned what ‘real work’ is and that there are many noble ways to earn a living. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
how to become one of the winning companies: how to attack competitors’ lock-ins, make their success formulas obsolete, and create the space needed to invent formulas for success. He shows how disrupting your company is critical to reaping... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Deep Tech for an Abundant Future
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Changing Student Life
around all over the place? It's clubs, it's all the things happening on your campus. We invented this service to put all this online." Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mascot Network, whose cofounder and chief strategy officer is Jason... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) When Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) cofounded the grocery delivery platform BulkWhiz in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in spring 2017, she joined a nascent startup scene in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. “Many... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- News
Seeking a Way to Treat a Gene-based Hearing Loss
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 23 Nov 2022
- News
4 Techniques for Developing Strategy Insights
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
As millions of passengers return to the skies for long-delayed plans, they’ll be returning to an airport that’s likely a little different. The lockdowns of 2020 hit aviation harder than almost any other industry. Airports, as a subsector, lost 98 percent of their... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
The Next Big Breakthrough in AI Will Be Around Language
Keywords: Artificial intelligence
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Convening Power
A significant new structure will open in 2018 on the HBS campus, designed to harness the energy, creativity, and ideas of the thousands of students, faculty, alumni, and leaders of all kinds who convene at the School each year. The facility, to be named Klarman Hall in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Sending a Message
In March, bankers, lobbyists, lawyers, and other messaging-intensive professionals heaved a collective sigh of relief and kept on thumbin’ like nobody’s business. Thanks to $612.5 million shelled out by the Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) over a patent... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) founded his company, Zetta Research, to restructure patent portfolios and other intellectual property assets from closed startups, develop them, and resell them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. He sees his firm’s efforts as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate math problems. "Of course I had no idea how to build such a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
most-published living author — compelling story lines and an inventive interplay of religion, spirituality, magic, and romance. Stefan Thomke is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration and an authority on the... View Details