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- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and other data that can help entrepreneurs select the most promising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
society where there are only rich people and poor people, the rich people can afford to simply eat imported food, while the lower class lives off the farm." Tracking the rise of the middle class, AACE started small but has grown quickly.... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Employers, insurers, taxpayers, and individual consumers pay widely varying prices for treatments, medical technology, and for digital information of fluctuating quality. One patient may receive a small charge for a treatment, while... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
president and CEO of COMPS InfoSystems between 1992 and 2000. During his leadership, the small regional print-publishing firm that covered commercial real estate became a national electronic database publisher, with 420 employees and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
when one has reached a certain age or level of expertise. Concert pianists and Wimbledon champions draw on the expertise of master teachers to guide their practice sessions. One forty-six-year-old senior vice president at Adobe Systems calls upon mentors within the... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
everything that the business needs, from raising financing, to customer interactions, to sales and marketing, to product development. It’s a challenge to be able to cover, as an individual and even as a small team, all those bases, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
battled it out in an ever-increasing test of nerves, a kind of Darwinian gauntlet. Early NASA executives had decided this was how to identify who had been born with “the right stuff.” Many companies looking to make top staffing decisions... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My North Star at the Crossroads of Profit and Purpose
I was born and raised in a small town in eastern India, called Jamshedpur (also known as Tatanagar). The city is named after Jamshedji Tata, who, in 1907, founded what would later become the Tata group of industries. Jamshedpur is one of... View Details
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entrepreneur through acquisition. The course is not a case-based course. It will meet weekly and students will be required to complete assignments on topics relevant to buying a small company such as how to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
from the tragedy? For one, small decisions have big consequences. Key concepts include: Words and actions by leadership shape perceptions and beliefs of organization members. Leaders need to hold a delicate balance in nurturing... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard
I was born in Rajasthan, India, came to the U.S. when I was very young, and grewup in New Hampshire, Delaware, and Massachusetts. I attended Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School, and then went to McKinsey & View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
Wilson was a principled and driven executive who transformed a small company called Haloid in Rochester, New York, into one that became synonymous with photocopying. Ellis, former managing partner of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
Raised in a small town in Ohio, Nancy Hall came to HBS as a partner when her husband entered the MBA Program. When they separated a few years later, she applied to the School “on a lark” and got in. The first day of kindergarten for her... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
stay away from the small business marketspace. The company inked distribution and implementation agreements with the same IT consulting firms that had served as such capable channel partners for SAP's... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
scheme.—F. Warren McFarlan He offered the case of the Hong Kong-based global trading company Li & Fung as one example of a company that has virtually dissolved its boundaries and embraced technology as a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler (MBA 1971)
company that specialized in make-believe was facing some very harsh realities. It had just come off the biggest money-losing year in its then130-year history -- the result, says Eyler, of a series of owners who had lacked the capital... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
suggests that at least some online content creators, namely bloggers, respond to the arrival of advertising revenue by changing what they cover, drifting toward subjects of broad interest—money, sex, and celebrities—to the detriment of more narrowly-focused material.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
CEO Peter Job from the U.K. and the panel's moderator, HBS Professor Debora Spar, for a look at the critical role of the media industry in how today's global information revolution plays out. "The media industry," said Spar in her introduction, "has been... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
on the ground, supporting our faculty in their research and bringing a global perspective to our classrooms. Through this network, HBS faculty can quickly get insights into global developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and how different nations and View Details