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- 30 Nov 2020
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Why Quantum Computing Should Be Part Of Your Enterprise AI Strategy
- 11 Dec 2019
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How AI shifts enterprise decision-making into self-driving mode
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise
New Schools; and Marc Sternberg (MBA ’00), founder and principal of the Bronx Lab School, each received the club’s Social Enterprise Award for their work in public education. HBS professor James Austin, cofounder and former chair of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
the seventh annual Social Enterprise Conference. The daylong event featured a number of panel discussions and two keynote presenters: Jeffrey Swartz, president and CEO of Timberland, the $1.5 billion footwear and outdoor apparel company,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in establishing the Social Enterprise Initiative. MORE Tribute to... View Details
- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Dividing the current efforts of the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business and free... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
probably as busy and involved today as he was when he ran the firm. He's made philanthropy and involvement in social enterprise a full-time job. What was your first job? When I was about ten, I started giving puppet shows at neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered
Indeed, Chandler concluded, by the mid-2oth century, the multiunit, multifunctional enterprise administered by salaried managers had become the “most powerful institution in the American economy.” In his 1962 book Strategy and Structure,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
an entrepreneur. With several other HBS graduates, he undertook a decidedly low-tech startup: plastic phone book covers to carry local advertisements in Massachusetts. The company, the National Merchandising Corporation, was such a success that over the next six years,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
says. “There’s always going to be a pure technology component, but that will often be overwhelmed by a managerial component.” This morning’s case, “Rich-Con Steel,” proves his point: A steel distributor attempts a company-wide conversion from 1960s View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
working for McKinsey and Co. before getting into Harvard. But she enrolled in the law school, not the business school. While Brochu says she enjoyed HLS intellectually, she didn't feel it was a very good fit for her personality. She found that fit when she took a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and nonprofit leaders who are keen on bringing their expertise to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Jul 2013
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Program Aims to Develop a Generation of Global Citizens
teenager, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) tried to join the Peace Corps upon graduating from high school, only to be rejected because of her age. Some years later, that rejection spurred Falik to develop an idea that in 2008 won the Pitch for Change competition, a part of the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
the two schools would take shape in the next decade with Allston’s emergence as an enterprise zone. “There’s an energy here we want to keep fueling,” said SEAS Dean Frank Doyle, speaking about possibilities for collaboration in the areas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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“Culture Is Everything”
large crowd of students in Burden Auditorium and those who watched a simulcast in the overflow area in Spangler. What successful enterprises have done in the past has worked, he noted, using IBM as an example, so it’s difficult for such... View Details