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John C. Mulliken
Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor. Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.
John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion of investment banks in... View Details
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
detailing the scope of Walmart’s operations and current strategies in the case “Walmart’s Workforce of the Future.” Published in April, it offers an overview of the considerable investments the retail giant is making in its e-commerce... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
public US-based companies between 1985 and 2012, looking at the price-per-share number of each offer. Based on what they already knew about the efficacy of precise numbers, they assumed that round-number bids would be in the minority. But it seemed that the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
decisions to build great global companies. If businesses are managed without courageous leadership, then R&D programs, product pipelines, investments in emerging markets, and employees’ commitment to the company’s mission all wither.... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
.com sites, and we crawl more than 285,000 of these domains to analyze their revenue sources. We find that 80% are supported by pay-per-click ads, often advertising the correctly spelled domain and its competitors. Another 20% include static redirection to other sites.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2012
- HBS Seminar
Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
History Initiative seeks to facilitate learning from the past through innovative research and course development, employing global and interdisciplinary perspectives. Business History Harvard Business School has a long tradition of View Details
- 27 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge
think I should be, to who I am,” he says in Huang’s book. 5. Be the proverbial “prom queen” When Huang was in the last year of her doctoral program and was nervously seeking her first academic appointment at a college, her advisor... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
School Working Knowledge. HBS Digital Media Producer Amelia Kunhardt produced the video interview. [Image: kuri2000 ] Related Reading The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records A Politician's View Details
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
by launching the Akamai Technical Academy, which asked the question: “Why don’t we go out and find smart people to train, and create our own talent pool?” Slides Impact Investing at a Crossroads Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), Director, HBS... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
of the University of Texas-Austin and Amit Seru of Stanford Graduate School of Business. A spate of alleged fraud by Wells Fargo has highlighted a dirty little secret in the financial industry: Misconduct by financial advisors is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
scale, and achieve meaningful progress on climate solutions . Through expert panels, case discussions, and networking, participants considered the role of the firm, individual business leaders, and HBS, as well as new business and View Details
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Mid-US - Global
The Road to Revitalization: Leadership Fellow Joel Hurd and the City of Detroit After earning his MBA, Joel Hurd joined Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan’s office as senior advisor on special projects through the HBS Leadership Fellows Program.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governing the Family-Run Business
The topic of governance is hot. Shareholders, managers, and business advisors are demanding improved governance of (typically public) companies by strengthening their boards of directors and developing more responsive shareholder... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
actually bought that whole business from us, that third party business a couple years ago for multiple billions of dollars which was a great return in terms of that investment for us. We've retained the baseball elements of it and the... View Details