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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
priorities of the School. In Profile, Extraordinary Alumnae Lillian Lincoln Lambert From Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969), a child of the segregated South who would become the first black woman to earn an MBA at HBS, to Mia Mends (MBA 2003), who emigrated from Ghana... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
had been admitted. You see, I’m a Jewban (a Jewish Cuban) and my family history includes escaping the Bolshevik revolution and the Holocaust to settle in Cuba, only to turn around and flee the communist regime and seek out religious and... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
the development via NASA to an era where industry leads has sped up the pace of growth and primed the space sector for investment. Co-founder of space technology company Escape Dynamics and a longtime investor in the industry, Garriott de... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
America’s more than $1 trillion in student loan debt. Indeed, some college graduates with student loans have not secured employment sufficiently remunerative to meet their financial obligations. Others are struggling to escape a heavy... View Details
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
observers are both looking back at what we've accomplished so far and looking ahead to what the future brings. The Harvard Business School faculty hasn't escaped this phenomenon. Plans have been made for a survey that will ask two... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
his family. In the 1980s, Adem T. Bunkeddeko’s (MBA 2017) parents escaped from war-torn Uganda to a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Queens. There they raised their children and helped other friends and family acclimate to this new country.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
That’s what we did at our 20th HBS reunion a few years ago. We decided to put aside the suggested section case discussion to instead share the personal challenges that no one escapes life without. It was unbelievably powerful to hear... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
escape denial. But there are telltale signs of it in an organization. And if you don’t spot it, you can’t fight it. Ask yourself: 1. What happens to the bearer of bad news? Does your firm “shoot the messenger”? Doing so doesn’t change... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
market within two months of the product's release. Next, Yoffie and Cusumano advise, firms need to be flexible and give way when attacked directly by a superior force. "No matter how quickly companies move," says Yoffie, "they can't View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
board, however, the outside directors should show their independence by filling the separate chair position with non-executive boardroom leadership of their own choosing. This is an effective solution to a pressing problem that continues to View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
contribute to real—not the measured kind of—productivity. Some will argue that the Metaverse is little more than a place in which misfits can escape their own U-Stor-Its. Before assuming that, remember that this will be a virtual world of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
COVID-19 will have on high-tech startups and entrepreneurs? Maria Roche: [Similarly,] COVID-19 may induce individuals who are most sensitive to labor market conditions to start new ventures in order to avoid being unemployed, or to escape... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
resource to solve a problem. Highly accessible in a scant 100 pages, the ideas in Building a Growth Factory may not result in an assembly line of hit products, but they will make innovation "repeatable and reliable," allowing companies to View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
MOON: “Differentiation is not a formula. Rather, it’s a way of thinking.” Professor Youngme Moon, who teaches one of HBS’s most popular electives (Consumer Marketing), has recently published her first book. In Different: Escaping the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
emotions. Bruce Harreld (Entrepreneurial Management) I met Steve Jobs many times over twenty years, and one word always comes to mind—passion. Steve was always passionate about everything he did. No detail was too small to escape his... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
specialization. Consider one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. His experience defines what it means to transition from outsider to insider. He came to this country at age six because his parents were trying to escape the oppression... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
to the Ground Navid Mojir and V. Kasturi Rangan “The case tells the story of Dell Technologies and its efforts to revitalize its value proposition and escape a commodity trap by acquiring EMC for $67 billion—the largest tech acquisition... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
them pot in a cookie, they have no problem with it." The potentially high price of retail marijuana, however, leaves frequent recreational users in a bind. To escape price inflation, they could grow their own pot at home, but that's... View Details