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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
relations: “It’s important for US business leaders to respect the countries where they do business, by appreciating their language and culture. In high school, I learned Spanish; in college, I learned Arabic; and at HBS, I found a tutor to teach me Farsi.” Fueling...
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- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's predecessor is actually named...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
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- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at...
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
would be a ways off. “This is a really big ship to turn,” he says. “But when I started hearing real, actual time lines—that was music to my ears.” It wasn’t just a vision but a plan. And just as importantly, that plan wasn’t a short-term...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
So, for example, creating incentives for industries to move into designated areas rather than, as he would say, ‘spreading like a rash.’ He brought meaning to the process.” “You find that people with two different viewpoints begin to...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
the world. Handholding and Strong Medicine: HBS and the Consulting Industry As a young lawyer with degrees from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, Marvin Bower (MBA '30) believed that a new kind of professional...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
he made in the food industry were equally discouraging. “They told me I was crazy, that Jeannette was dead, that near the end they had been producing the worst madeleines in France. To restart production and change its image at the same...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
loss struggling to keep up. Shari Eberts (MBA 1995) is helping by urging industry players to provide free automatic captions on their platforms. In April she launched a petition to that end with some 50,000 signatures to date; in...
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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis and sterility testing, Moderna...
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- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
leading and overseeing a group of creatives. You have to be brave and flexible enough to allow them to bring what they’re able to bring, while also keeping the ship on course. Knowing where to step in and where to let go is very...
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