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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
J. Fox (MBA ’69) (Jossey-Bass) Fox’s business parable follows a young New England paperboy named Rain as he learns the business of being in business and quickly becomes the best paperboy in town. A series of humorous vignettes illustrates... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
deal with an Italian distributor.” While working at Disney, Dick and his best friend from HBS, John MacDonald (MBA ’90), took a sitcom writing class at UCLA’s extension school. “My girlfriend at the time—now my wife of 18 years—told me... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
In the late 1980s, scientists for New York City-based drug-maker Pfizer began testing what was then known as compound UK-92,480 for the treatment of angina. Although UK-92,480 seemed promising in the lab and in animal tests, the compound... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
Although plenty has changed for venture capitalists with the slowing of the economy and market upheavals, there are still plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs and those who fund them, said panelists at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
creation, interpretation, and enforcement of rules. To elaborate, the model rests on five conceptual pillars: 1. Business strategy as game playing. In the new lexicon of business strategy, companies participate in ongoing games in which... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to economic development are lowered.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
of quantum dots for cancer treatment that had been proposed by an outside sponsor. Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team's members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team delivered the bad View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
What were you doing prior to HBS? What made you decide to go to HBS? Before HBS, I worked on TPG’s impact assessment team, Y Analytics, focused on energy, agriculture, food, and industrial deals. I learned to think deeply about measuring the impact of mission-driven... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team’s members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team delivered the bad news that the technology wasn’t going to pan out. But they then... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
How Scott Linzmeyer Crafted a Business He Loves at Reveler Beverage
new opportunity, Linzmeyer found himself drawn to the entrepreneurial aspects of the industry where he “reveled” in building business plans, hiring staff, developing marketing strategy, and managing distributors. Making the Hop Into... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
implement strategy. In a retail business, no matter what you decide in the office, if the people out in the stores don't execute it, your business isn't going to be worth a darn, because they're the ones who deal with your customers. So... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
comment on, and summarize advice and insight on dealing with Vladimir Putin offered by former Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Rex Tillerson. This presentation is based on video... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
ensure adequate liquidity. Recall that after New Deal financial regulation was put in place in the 1930s, the country didn’t suffer another major crisis until deregulation commenced nearly fifty years later... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
living in areas of the US that lost more European immigrants because of the laws’ restrictions didn’t benefit economically. If anything, natives’ employment in immigrant-intensive sectors, such as mining, declined more in areas that lost more immigrants because of the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
corporate governance system — management- incentive systems, corporate boards, external auditors, analysts, and professional investing institutions — seem to need some reengineering to deal with these new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
which the management team will consider how best to position the firm for the future. Actis could move in a number of different directions by expanding into new geographies, asset classes, or deal sizes.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace