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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in entrepreneurship View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
distribution business, and when steel prices generally go down, this company will start selling everything in their inventory at a loss, and the company will go bankrupt. So the way I chose to resolve this...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (DBA 1977), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School’s required general management course....
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
companies, primarily in the computer and health-care realm. In the four decades since, Johnson has helped build the biotech industry and earned a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. Among his...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
practices, which resulted in an offer to teach at Howard University. There, Fitzhugh created a marketing program and organized the school’s Small Business Center, in addition to introducing generations of black students—including HBS’s...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
of hard work, fidelity, and building the alliances necessary to achieve enduring success. John Andrew, a retired Boeing executive, offers a unique insider look at the profound changes the company experienced in the 1960s as the product mix shifted from military...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
But we felt if we marketed the shoe under a smaller brand, it might be taken more seriously as a specialty product.” The creative deal hashed out between the companies called for GoLite to get a cash infusion (neither party will say how much) and access to Timberland’s...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
what we had left of functioning city government, handle security issues, find out what resources were available and what was needed from the state and feds, and generally try to get things back to normal as soon as possible throughout the...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
2:00 that afternoon, closed, worked all night to make more food, and sold out again the next day.” The business grew 8 percent each month for the first fifteen months. For a while, Garner served as chief pasta maker, accountant, and View Details
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Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help....
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
Executive—the inspiration for the OSS—parachuted into Banská Bystrica soon after with much the same orders as the OSS agents. The American and British teams got to know each other at a lavish dinner party thrown by Brigadier General Ján...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
long careers, these legendary faculty members not only helped shape the School and personify it to generations of students and alumni, they were also eyewitnesses to its evolution. When they began their careers, after World War II and at...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
find it in Ruth M. Owades's (MBA '75) Calyx & Corolla catalogue. Since 1989, Owades has been offering American consumers mail-order cut flowers and plants, FedExed directly from the grower. Eliminating wholesalers and distributors clips a week or more off the View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also, thanks to the Delaware courts’...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
guards, to analyzing attendance data, to developing new media initiatives. I wouldn’t have been ready for the challenges in my current job without that prior experience,” she states. “I loved my time at Lincoln Center.” In part, it was the sheer excitement View Details