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- 24 Oct 2016
- News
Health Care Pioneer Giusti Named McCance Senior Fellow at HBS
partnerships now that Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will be located adjacent to HBS.” McCance is well versed in investing in good ideas and is particularly interested in how business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
one of London's leading investment banks, Mueller took a deep breath and punched in the name of an obscure Polish company about which the bank needed information. There was a hit, then another. Soon, no fewer than 87 separate items, from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
dropped out of college and joined a New York securities firm. He saw his sales and commissions rise after he decided to be less than forthcoming about potential drawbacks to the investment ideas he was pitching to customers. Over time,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
navigate your company’s complex political environment); and manage a team (forge a high-performing “we” out of all the “I”s who report to you). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman (MIT Press) Josh Lerner, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
for you? I’m starting a job search. Working on this book has been utterly different from my previous career in investment banking. It’s been an excellent experience. I’m ready to get back into general management. I do have some ideas on... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
these two areas, and that gives me a very good feeling.” With John Plukas (MBA ’68), with whom he had previously founded HCW Oil and Gas, an oil-industry real estate and investment firm, Glassman launched Wainwright Bank in 1987. The bank... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
now serves as president of the automaker’s Americas division. In a bold move for the time, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) abandoned his Wall Street career in the early 1990s and headed to China, where he built a major auto parts manufacturing business and has now launched... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum percentage of the sales of any... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
million valuation, he might have missed his investment in auxmoney, an online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans. 3 Get comfortable on planes Rimer still lives in Geneva but is in London a few days a week. He is in Berlin regularly and in... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
will make important incremental investments to offset the effects of the downturn (for example, increasing our support to students in their job searches). Finally, we will seek out opportunities to strengthen our long-term position.” To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
upfront and months in advance allows you to forget about the pain of paying and gives you ample opportunity to anticipate the trip. Invest in Others Some of Norton and Dunn's first experiments involved giving people money and asking them... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Neil MacKenna on Effective Job Search Strategies
selected, on-purpose best, which is how anything you say will be heard. Project Passion. In all your communications with prospective employers, make sure that your level of enthusiasm comes across. Do your research about the company and show that you are willing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis argues... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Glauber earned his doctoral degree in business administration at HBS and joined the faculty in 1964. He taught courses on corporate finance and investment management, and served as faculty chair of the Advanced Management Program. In... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
those who have less time to invest in enjoying this hobby.” Research supports the claim that interest in who we are, where we come from, and to whom we’re related is an almost completely universal human trait. Ancestry.com banks on this... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
reflection I would give Dan, is that, you know, change happens slowly and then all at once. Right? So in some way, shape, or form, you know, cleantech investing has happened over decades. Not just, not just now. But I think what you see... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
$45 billion. Says a former senior investment banker who now serves as a director for several S&P 500 companies: “The Lehman board was a joke and a disgrace. Asleep at the switch doesn’t begin to describe it.” Inherent Conflicts of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Jennifer L. Scott
Fisher Associates in San Francisco, which invests in early-stage technology and telecommunications ventures. What will motivate Scott in her new job is what has inspired her in all of her endeavors - the pleasure she gets from bringing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
during an economic downturn. My colleague, HBS associate professor Tom Nicholas, has found that while the pace of patent applications slowed during the Great Depression, some contrarians pressed ahead with innovation, including DuPont with its View Details
Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
to believe that Apple can maintain that incredible level of success.” The verdict is still out on that question, says Yoffie. Even so, the iPod has altered the fundamental dynamics of Apple. In a change that signals the company’s growing View Details