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- 13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate across View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
the permanent sections that will carry them through the required curriculum," Schlesinger notes. "Through exercises in teamwork, applied personal skills, and project management, we provided both the process and project expertise that students will need in order to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
restructure in one way or another in order to survive in an uncertain economy. The only sure thing, according to HBS professor Stuart Gilson, is that restructuring itself has become more than just a last-resort action of desperate View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australian... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
and Vanessa Royle In the end, Ilana Springer Borkenstein and Eric Gruskin, from the New York region, took the Grand Prize of $75,000 with their startup, M7 Health, an innovative nursing-workforce management platform. The Runner Up prize... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
School’s lead researcher at Hawthorne, Roethlisberger, through his summaries of the research conducted there (including the bestseller Management and the Worker), ensured that Mayo’s efforts enjoyed wide exposure. Barely out of its teens... View Details
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews were often less than welcoming. Since those early engineering days, Kovatch has held View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
commons”: issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration essential, no matter how unlikely the partnerships might... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
going; it was a sense of duty,” he says. “People had put their trust in us, and we had a duty to deliver.” The revelation refocused Medina on longer-term sustainability over short-term growth. The Outreach software—which has expanded to integrate View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
argument . . . is that it is necessary to look at both the costs imposed upon others without their consent and the rights denied to others, also without their consent, from multiple lenses." Does the business world look different in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Sun, Genentech, Amgen, Dell, and Compaq didn't exist in 1975! Once these managers decided to allocate a percentage to venture investments, they typically increased that percentage by investing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
multiple revenue sources, continued investments in the campus, and limited debt. The surplus we generate allows us to invest in innovation, self-fund faculty research, and offer generous need-based financial aid.” Increasingly, however,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
deliverables. We have to inspire. We have to be humble. We have to be able to measure outcomes,” he says. Governing a country is also an exercise in managing multiple View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Sep 2010
- News
Idea Takes Root
wire. The IIRC deserves better, and here’s why. As Eccles states in his blog, reporting both financial performance and performance in the areas of environmental sustainability, social responsibility, and governance in an integrated fashion has enormous benefits for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
content to learn and own one part of the process. They’re true athletes. They’re versatile, capable, and eager to perform. They want to work on multiple projects simultaneously, they want to see the big picture, they want to know when and... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
you doing? Hey, are you still at the hotel?” And he goes, “Oh, no, I'm not at the hotel anymore.” And oh, my goodness, our hopes were deflated. We thought that, oh, he's just not made it. And then he said, “But I'm a manager at a moving... View Details