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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
30,000 megawatts of power, would change the face of European energy networks, use new technology, and help several European countries meet their Kyoto targets for reducing CO2. The issues are whether a small View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
session was devoted to the topic "Profits for Nonprofits: Challenges of Earning Your Own Way." (Starbuck's CEO Orin Smith addressed a related theme—can for-profit companies integrate non-profit values—in his keynote speech... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective
Second-year MBA student Anna Koscielecka (MBA 2016) spent two weeks in China during a January 2016 Immersive Field Course (IFC) that expanded her global perspective. “We fully immersed ourselves in Chinese business culture,” says Koscielecka. “And we had unique access... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
with small companies looking for help, struggles to define a growth plan for the future. The company, started as a class project in HBS' FIELD 3 course, is assessing three growth paths: shifting its target... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
capital investing has reached an all-time high. Although their background skills and experiences fall outside venture capital, they have identified a large investor and a number of smaller investors to back their small fund. They believe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Thomas S. Murphy (MBA 1949)
growth, highlighted by the purchase of ABC, which included ESPN, in 1985. Under his leadership, Capital Cities grew from one small broadcasting station housed in a former convent to a multibillion dollar telecommunications conglomerate.... View Details
- Profile
Fabian Frick
making; I wanted more of a management role,” says Fabian. A consulting assignment with McKinsey gave him the opportunity to explore strategic digitization projects. “In Germany,” Fabian notes, “we have lots of large, traditional companies... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the company received for its Series C round. The case then describes iyzico’s origins and provides a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
away from you quickly. In the early days of WAVE, with a fairly small team, it was easy for me to model the expected behavior. But as we started to scale up, and our original culture ambassadors became the minority to the new hires, we... View Details
- 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT, 18 Oct 2016
- HBS Alumni Events
Alumnae Circles Open House: San Francisco
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- Web
Philip Hendrickson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Howard E. Cox Greylock Michael Danzi US Labs William Donaldson Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, III Draper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot Dunphy Sealed Air Charles Ellis Greenwich Associates Orit Gadiesh Bain... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong If mistakes are bound to happen—like death and perhaps taxes—then leaders need to let them be seen, says Victoria Montgomery Brown (MBA 2003), CEO and cofounder of the digital media View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to... View Details
- Profile
PJ Meyer
"level the playing field for local businesses" by working with student groups to set up internet alternatives for small businesses to perform everything from advertising to online ordering. Participation in a number of business... View Details
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Matthew Boys
eBay, he “crunched data about site users” for about nine months, then transferred to Skype as a business analyst. “It was a fun company to work for,” says Matt. “We had a flat hierarchy – you could talk to anyone in the company. We had... View Details
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Olivia Zhao
mined from a day on the diamond. “I’ve loved baseball since I was a very small child,” she says. “I also have played softball all my life—currently I’m on the Harvard health policy team. Whether watching or playing, sports are a social... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
would triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, these business leaders were concerned about the growing inequality of income within many nations, across nations, and across regions. Half the world's poor would be in sub-Saharan Africa living on... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
afford groceries is the reason we see so much plastic in grocery aisles today. “Despite our best efforts, Gotham Greens is a small company with limited influence in the packaging sector. Changing the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati