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- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new venture. That was the message... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
a home, and achieve some level of success, security, and happiness. But how does this vision change in parts of the world where property rights, if they are present at all, are threatened by weak law enforcement, corruption, crime, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint initiative of HBS and Harvard's Graduate School of Education,... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
enjoy the same name recognition, Patterson regularly outsells other "brand-name authors" such as Stephen King and Tom Clancy by simply publishing more books, averaging three titles each year with the occasional assistance of a... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
question: What are the best business management processes and practices needed by executives heading up companies that incorporate science-based innovation? A Different Management Strategy Sato believes that the challenges particular to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
investment, and how do corporations keep their bearings in a bureaucratic maze of regulations? Does the promise of payoff exceed the challenges of doing business in countries that are in the midst of reform? Those questions were considered View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the firm's people was the most fulfilling of all. You need to know how to work with people, and that skill is largely experiential and driven by personality.—Kevin McCall Peter Palandjian (HBS MBA '93), chairman and CEO of... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
capital. Would it be a better idea to ride the wave of globalization and try to get acquired by a multinational corporation? Or should the firm remain privately owned and focus its growth in Africa? After all, he noted, markets beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
companies, Senior Lecturer Julia Austin has a more nuanced understanding of this reality than most—and a few pointers for anxious founders to keep in mind. “It’s still unpredictable, hard, and illogical in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
throughout college and into HBS. That intensity has been channeled by mentors throughout Keen’s life. One such person is Deward Walker, who in 2007 challenged Keen with a question that has a recurring role in Sacred Seed’s origin story:... View Details
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
Specialisterne, a Danish software firm with 75 percent of its workforce diagnosed with ASD. Ferose, like the founder of Specialisterne, has a son diagnosed with ASD. Specialisterne is what Austin calls the “gold standard” of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
and in September 2013 was named Australia’s first female Minister for Foreign Affairs, both positions she continued to hold after a sudden leadership shift in September 2015. Bishop’s diplomacy and savviness in negotiating this change was widely noted and admired View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
investors take notice, often increasing a company's market capitalization by millions of dollars. The pressure is intense, to say the least, but it's clear that Modigliani loves her job. "Every day the market is different, so it never... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Cedric Bobo (MBA 2004) was bitten by the business bug at the age of eight, when he visited his mother, who was a secretary at FedEx’s Memphis office. “I was drawn to the creative, all-hands-on-deck energy of the place,” he says. “In 1983,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
highly trained athletes will use every martial arts skill at their disposal—karate, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, judo, and boxing, among others—to score a win by knockout, submission, or points. Face lit by the... View Details