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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level by James K. Sebenius, R. Nicholas Burns, and Robert H. Mnookin (HarperCollins) Kissinger’s geopolitical insights into foreign policy, statecraft,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
shared his idea. Especially supportive was a young, then untenured professor of information technology, James Cash. "Jim told me, 'Anything you do to improve the computer's human interface has got to be good,' " Bricklin recalls. View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
of supply and demand. ThredUp James Reinhart , MBA 2009 Andrew Ferrer , MBA 2009 Neil Shah , MBA 2009 ThredUp is a refresh button for your closet. ThredUp is the easy and inexpensive way to refresh your closet View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
Musing of Gilmore Tostengard by Gilmore Tostengard (MBA 1953) (Outskirts Press) This book tracks Tostengard's lifelong journey from small-town Minnesota to Arizona with a couple of oceans and numerous stops on the way. Great Inventions... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
coats and ties. The first time he dared to speak in class, he used the Canadian pronunciation of the word “schedule” — SHED-yool — and was none-too-gently mocked by his professor and classmates. One of the students in the classroom that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
illuminating graphics to guide readers in conceiving, designing, building, testing, and scaling up the ideal business for them. The Career Playbook: Essential Advice for Today’s Aspiring Young Professional by View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood says by phone from her office in Grand Haven, Michigan, where she serves as vice chairman of JSJ Corporation, a family-owned entity comprising six manufacturing companies. "I had come right out of college, and many of the men had... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Photography by Michael Stravato From cofounding the first aerial tramway high above Costa Rica’s rainforest canopy, to helping a two-person wind-energy startup become an industry leader, to making a quixotic run for US Congress, Michael... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Catchphrases and Mottos 1972B studied an HBO (Human Behavior in the Organization) case in which there were two hourly workers. One of them would steal the other fellow’s banana every day from his... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
MacHour, who brought together the original group around the idea of EWB. Goodwin led the effort to turn their concept into reality and the group asked him to take the reins as CEO in 2008. Classmates Subra Iyer and James “Jimmy” Park... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Threat in Africa by James M. Hawes (MBA 1971) and Mary Ann Koenig Skyhorse Publishing Sometime in 1965, James Hawes landed in the Congo with cash stuffed in his socks, morphine... View Details
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Lawrence G. Sucsy (HBS MBA '62), was regarded as a respected analysis of the potential of laser technology. The well-known textbook Creative Collective Bargaining; Meeting Today's Challenges to Labor-Management Relations , by View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
actually weren’t all that good for many people,” she notes. “There is a more level playing field and meritocracy today. You don’t have to wear a three-piece suit to get the job or while you’re on the job. Diversity and individuality are celebrated, and I, for one, am... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
by $100 billion spent annually on management consulting and training. Yet that message doesn’t always get to the people who need it most: fewer than half of public-facing employees are well versed in these grand strategic ideas when it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Ptaath’s Hammer by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) Westminster & York Ltd. A 17,000-year-old city is discovered, predating all other known civilizations. A nightmarish blight threatens to spread over the world and... View Details