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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
economics course, the premed student — whose third language is English, after Russian and Armenian — was instantly heading in a new direction. “I just fell in love,” she says. “I did some research on education policy and its impact, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
had done. Instead, what Gluck did was take the world’s most prestigious and self-confident consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, and revolutionize it. Gluck joined The Firm (McKinsey preferred upper-case designation for itself) in 1967... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA 1984) Routledge In Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs, author Linda J. Bilmes develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
streamline production processes, lower costs, produce better quality products, gain a first-mover advantage, and enhance their global competitiveness. Properly designed government regulation, Porter believes, can provide incentives for... View Details
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Oral Histories | Baker Library
Virginia and somebody put my name in the hat, and I interviewed with him and became his cabinet secretary for economic development and environmental protection, which normally isn't together in a cabinet position because there's a natural... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
organizational size.” While roughly two-thirds of its clients are nonprofits, Bridgespan also works with philanthropists and foundations. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, for example, was an early Bridgespan client and has been at the forefront of implementing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
being brought on by the board at Liz Claiborne as vice chairman and COO in 1994. Founded in 1976 by fashion designer Liz Claiborne, her husband, Arthur Ortenberg, and two other partners, the tiny shop had rocketed to success in its first... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
especially when they don’t have any knowledge of a subject. Designating a common enemy has always been an efficient way at uniting people. It also typically leads to scapegoating. Politicians’ role should be to educate the people and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
patience, and responsibility. Jugal Choudhary, AMP 2012. My first job was with a company called Babcock and Wilcox, designing boilers. So I joined straight out of my engineering school, started the job. To me I think I was one of the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
that is more negative than their own self-assessment in a given domain (i.e., disconfirming feedback), reshape their network in ways designed to attenuate the threat brought about by the feedback, and that this behavior is detrimental to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
resulting co-creation of ecological damage by firms and governments. In the new global economy since 1980, renewed economic growth and consumerism resulted in mountains of waste in increasingly polluted mega-cities. Biodiversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and raising cattle on it is a challenge fit for an MBA—one that Whiteside decided to pursue full-time after finding a new tract of land and selling his company just a few months before the 2008 economic crisis. "If you apply fertilizer,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
billion dollars in revenues and almost 6,000 people providing aid and economic opportunity in some of the toughest environments around the world. On top of these baseline operations, which have been expanding since its founding in 1979,... View Details