Filter Results
:
(181)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,370)
- People (4)
- News (181)
- Research (793)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (368)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,370)
- People (4)
- News (181)
- Research (793)
- Events (6)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (368)
Sort by
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
of the School. For instance, in MBA and Executive Education admissions, we are interested in applicants who will enrich our classroom discussions with a wide range of international perspectives. We are also evaluating the degree to which...
View Details
Keywords:
Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships, however, science with commercial applications began thriving outside corporate R&D silos. And the availability of venture capital for technology start–ups made it harder to keep scientists with hot new ideas in–house. The...
View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
competition is open to alumni with early-stage ventures. Winners receive an invitation to the student and alumni New Venture Competition Finale held in April. Applications are due by January 27, 2020. Get full program details here....
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
such a protected market into a wide-open, hypercompetitive environment is a very difficult process.” Today’s headlines confirm that difficulty, as GM and Ford close plants, cut jobs and production, and try to deflect talk of bankruptcy,...
View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
million LBO in 1979 to buy the firm from Johnson & Johnson, Invacare's annual sales have grown from $19 million to $1.5 billion. "Everything starts with the product," says Mixon, who had been marketing CT scanners before doing the...
View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
the conference examined the application of technology in traditional businesses and the innovations that will influence the everyday activities of a broad spectrum of companies." WSA: Focus on Work/Life Balance "Women have always been...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
for Integrated Electronics), Grove started as director of operations before rising through the ranks to COO in 1979. For the next two years he presided over an all-out crusade with the fearsome name of Operation CRUSH. Powered by Intel’s sales and View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
comprehensive playbook for business leaders and people on their way up to give the best presentations of their lives. More often than not, the best intentions and most innovative ideas get lost in a poorly executed presentation. With concrete suggestions, helpful...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
successful company or career. Koch’s innovative business model and frank stories offer counterintuitive lessons applicable to business and to life. He has surprising advice on sales, marketing, hiring, and company culture. Bedtime Stories...
View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding stock grants without...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Bibliomotion) Firestone has developed four core tenets of risk-taking that are applicable when anticipating, evaluating, and responding to risks in business, investing, and life. They are right-sizing; right-timing; relying on skill,...
View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
1952)—convinced him to delay his application to HBS and hired him for Red Comet, their decorative-ceiling business. “My bosses said, ‘You’ll get in. You will have the background and experience,’” he recalls. “When my mom called to say the...
View Details
Keywords:
Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
internationally but from nonprofits and the public sector, as well as applicants with less work experience. Does that present new challenges for financial aid? We need to guarantee that we always can bring the very best students to the...
View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
senior faculty, doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows—who will collaborate on scholarship with us and with each other on these important topics. HBS will be calling for applications in the fall and will welcome the inaugural cohort...
View Details
Keywords:
Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
300 applicants and became the largest student-led business plan competition for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But as the competition progressed, Foster and Simpson began to identify some biases and frictions in the evaluation and...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business...
View Details
Keywords:
Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
Commit deeply to the ideal of entrepreneurship first, and only then to a particular business model or product. That combination of commitment and flexibility can help founders react nimbly to market feedback, abandoning products and...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the demographics of their workforce. "With...
View Details
Keywords:
Garry Emmons