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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
of the whole. When Trump had a horrible news week, we saw in the polls that Hillary Clinton didn’t make any gains as a result of his missteps. The joke I used to make about the 2016 presidential election is, “We were shocked but not surprised.” Our work is a View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
collaborate with interested faculty and related programs in different parts of Harvard and beyond. The ISC (www.isc.hbs.edu) will focus its activities on three principal areas: the study of competition and its implications for company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
EnTRIPreneurs
by the students, it's more like a rolling summer job, with an entrepreneurial focus and a dash of pro bono consulting, built around visits to several high-potential small businesses in the American heartland. "Globalization puts a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
time we gathered here in 1996." Hosted by the Harvard Business School and the HBS Association of Northern California, this year's global alumni conference was the largest and, by all accounts, among the most successful ever. A team of 32... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
Illustration by Neil Webb When the United States men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup—for the first time in 32 years—the critiques were scathing. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl deemed it “the most... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
teams of consultants who did extensive and time-consuming one-on-one interviews. Synthesis, launched in 2017, aims for a middle ground: a focused but customized evaluation. “We ask ourselves what are the things you need to know right now... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
value concentration; there’s been such a focus on efficiency that there are way fewer redundancies in a company’s production capacity and inventories,” says Beer, who offers insight and advice to alumni seeking guidance in unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
expectations; helping us understand impact at the restaurant level of initiatives we are rolling out; and developing a pipeline of talent for the company. What have you seen as the largest growth drivers in the past 12 months? It all began with a renewed View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Natural Fit
Patty in the foothills of Park City, Utah, home base for US Ski & Snowboard At the age of 18, Anouk Patty (MBA 1997) was in an enviable position, or so it seemed. In addition to gaining acceptance at Dartmouth College, Patty’s speed and grit had earned her a place on... View Details
- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
being paranoid. But the costs of deception are high. It pays to develop a close team of colleagues you absolutely trust and would go to war with. A complicated stew in our culture is creating a deception epidemic. Social media, for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
75 Barclay Street by fallen debris, Joe Lhota, Giuliani, Kerik, and other city officials were stunned. "At first, we couldn't comprehend that the tower had completely collapsed," Lhota recalls. "We'd been standing with First Deputy Fire Commissioner William Feehan and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Joint Venture
In this issue of the Bulletin, our focus is on HBS’s “intellectual ambition.” Since its founding in 1908, the School has been committed to creating and disseminating intellectual capital that will help define, strengthen, and improve... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
life of its own, and I loved embracing these challenges to see if I could pull them off.” Many of his struggles were profound. After watching all of the physically stronger members of his climbing team drop out of their summit attempt on... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
(Palgrave Macmillan), he has succeeded with a contrarian view about e-commerce. While other online markets focus on the end customer, Rakuten's mission is to support the vendors who sell to those customers. His rewrite of the rules of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
Kerr: There’s a lot of alignment between general management and entrepreneurial management. We define entrepreneurship following the early work of Howard Stevenson at HBS as “the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources controlled.” What entrepreneurs and their View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business became more and more competitive, GTCR decided to View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
notes, although representation across an organization is a valuable first step. For her team, it’s about what follows. “What I’m focusing on right now is, what’s next?” says Lara. “We’re updating our programming to focus more on things... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
a necessary first step in meeting the increasing demand for online educational tools. The newly remote DreamBox team decided to shift its focus to support, providing customer service not just for the 130,000... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
efforts to improve living standards and open new possibilities for the 20 million (one in four) Filipinos who live in remote areas and lack reliable access to electricity. In May, three motorcycle riders embarked from Manila, leading an HSSI View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
locations in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic, a focus on price-sensitive customers, and a much narrower range of healthy beverages, so this product could stand out more. This might provide a good test of the product’s appeal to a different... View Details