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- 24 May 2017
- News
Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973
was the best in the country: Radcliffe. “I was a feminist early on,” says Lang, whose life’s work includes building a picture-framing store and a photo business, blazing a trail as a high-tech leader, raising three children, and...
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Susan Young
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HBS Global Initiative & Research Centers - MBA
strategy positions at a number of high-tech firms. She grew up in Pakistan, where her father was a development economist. To learn more about the global research and activities of HBS – visit www.hbs.edu/global. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE...
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- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
Science article titled "Language Matters: Status Lost and Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations," Neeley interviewed workers at a $25 billion Paris-based high-tech company about its two-year-old English-only...
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by Kim Girard
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
performance. Putting in $300,000 for 60 percent of the equity, Dunn helped launch Prime Computer in 1972 and served as its chairman for the next seventeen years. With his hands-on help, Prime became an early high-tech success story, and...
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- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
jobs around innovation. Make it a job prerequisite. Consider 3M's move to become one of the first companies to tell professionals that they could spend 15 percent of their time on projects of their own choosing. Now many high-tech...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
2004 at Outdoor Explorations, a nonprofit that brings together people with and without disabilities for inclusive outdoor adventures. She spent last summer doing marketing for Advanced Bionics, a Boston Scientific–owned manufacturer of cochlear implants, View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sixth Annual Cyberposium an SRO Success
The sixth annual HBS Cyberposium, held on February 19 and 20, drew many of the high-tech industry's best-known entrepreneurs and business leaders, as well as more than thirteen hundred participants from HBS and other business schools and...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
the United States to manufacture high-tech products, the erosion of the industrial commons has seriously damaged the country’s ability to invent new ones. The prevailing view of the past 25 years has been that the United States can thrive...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
Back in 1974, Massachusetts native Ken Goldman headed for California to pursue a career in high-tech finance, figuring that while he might not find much glory, at least he'd find good weather. "The prestige jobs back then were strictly in...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Creating solutions for the oil industry
Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills. (Published November 2014)
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose founders have better job...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise
changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. Our paper traces a growing pool of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from...
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Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Trek Talk
due north and landed in Stockholm, where they made headlines in the local paper after spending their days learning about high-tech opportunities and visiting Ericsson. Meanwhile, several hundred of their classmates were in Silicon Valley...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Investing FAQ
Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FIELD 2: Global Intelligence Why is participation important? Every gift represents an endorsement of the School’s mission to...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Austin Club Provides Down-Home Hospitality
(HBS Club of Austin) Last February, the HBS Club of Austin sponsored a Texas-sized get-together for the HBS students who participated in the 2001 Austin High-Tech Trek. More than one hundred alumni, students, and partners were treated to...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit
The name William K. Bowes Jr. (MBA 1952) is synonymous with the development of venture capital in America and the rise of Silicon Valley. As a founder of U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) in 1981, the late HBS alum launched a long list of medical and View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
FIELD 2: Global Intelligence
Watch the thinking that underpins HBS’s new field method of study Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech FAQ For the second module of FIELD (Field Immersion...
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- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
do I get there?" For their study, O'Mahony and Bechky surveyed two strikingly different groups: high-tech contractors and film crew members. While roles in the film industry tend to be more fixed—a key grip on one project will most...
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- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where significant ownership rests in the hands of management (e.g...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
High Yields
from inspecting bridges to tracking energy usage. But the biggest vertical of all—one expected to account for 80 percent of the commercial market—is in agriculture. Using a Hawk Aerial drone and some high-tech spectral analysis, farmers...
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Francis Storrs