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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
conference. Such affronts were all too familiar in a country that, at the time, had few women entrepreneurs. When an agent finally responded, he gave Russo serious pause by showing a building far larger than she had stipulated. Upon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain... View Details
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells “This book is a beautifully written call to action that instantaneously absorbed me into a world that I was not, but should have been, familiar with. It simultaneously made me feel powerless... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
familiar with private enterprise and with strong ties with the business community, rather than a traditional academic. That’s how it all began, and the reason why they reached out to me.” On the value of the case method: “The case-study... View Details
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: Brand New
fashion, status, community, and control.” The six entrepreneurs achieved this, Koehn found, by maintaining total familiarity with their product or service; learning from mistakes and adjusting quickly; distinguishing their offerings and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes), a concept View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
In a year like no other, it makes sense that a handful of new words would pop up—and familiar terms would find a different spin and resonance. We asked HBS alumni and faculty to give their take on a few that will continue to make some... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
for the next morning's case discussion. Jarred back to anxiety, that night I assumed the classic posture — highlighter in hand, scrutinizing the case as if my life depended upon it. Early Saturday morning, the familiar debate began —... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
afforded Middlebrooks precious peace of mind at work, knowing her children were in a safe, loving, and familiar environment. In addition, she credits husband William, who owns a customer service and training firm, with sharing equally in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Godine) For more than four decades, Williams and his wife formed the most comprehensive and adventurous treasury of American prints ever assembled by private collectors. Their 6,000 prints cover both familiar and totally unknown ground.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
margins, want reform to be instituted through the familiar public-school structure. For their part, HBS graduates have long been involved in various education initiatives and reform efforts. Alumni have created and funded national... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Jones at Extend Fertility’s new headquarters in Allston, Massachusetts. Serial entrepreneur Christy Jones is interested in the balance between innocence and experience. With two start-ups under her belt and a third on the way, Jones is View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
People resist change. They like the way they do things now, for the most part. They might wish a familiar product was cheaper or faster, but they’ve gotten used to the way things currently work. And so, if you don’t take behavioral change... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
artificial intelligence and machine learning? Where are their heads at? Dubinsky: Well, there's a mix of course. Like anything. One thing I would note is the students today have much more familiarity with it than the students of last year... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World War almost three years earlier;... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
economic principles or who are not yet highly skilled in English. "We invite these students in early and provide them with an intensive language immersion and acculturation program," Walker explains. "During this period, they get to know the community and become View Details
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