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- 07 May 2019
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How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
attending Harvard Business School, Hoel Perkins landed a job on the ground floor of the venture capital firm TA Associates in Boston. There she impressed management with her computer skills—all self-taught—and her knack for finding...
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- 03 Apr 2014
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Cross-Class Connection
priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture Partners in New York. “He spoke at our class event in New York about why HBS is important to him. It resonated deeply with our class members.” “I think...
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- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
David Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; Herman B. Leonard, George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration; and Lynn S. Paine, John G. McLean Professor...
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- 30 Aug 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art
other locations. “I enjoyed having pieces in places where I spent so much of my time,” says van Caldenborgh, who employed an art staff at Caldic to manage exhibits. “The art also set an image for our company and became a company-wide...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship The Sweet Life: Paul Conforti at Finale Desserterie & Bakery. “Everything is a balancing act... you’ve got to be able to adapt.” Related Links A Growing Drumbeat Show Me the Money - or Not Cloudflare...
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- 06 Jun 2017
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Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?
tanking the market? Sultenic: The industry is capitalized and managed more transparently and thoughtfully than it has been historically, with less easy money floating around. Banks got smarter, equity...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
were misdirected illusions of ways to become rich. It would take Gallatin well over a decade to realize that his gifts lay not in dealing with land and agriculture, but rather in managing money and other...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Andrew H. Tisch
brother and cousin, that forms the Office of the President at Loews' Manhattan headquarters. Among his primary responsibilities are watching over several major real estate investments and working closely with the CEOs of several subsidiaries. Tisch's View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
News in the News Biz
Professor Joseph Bower brought his expertise in management and economics to the newspaper trade in an article titled “News Is Strategic in the Newspaper Business,” which appeared in last fall's issue of Nieman Reports. “If the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Becoming a VC Insider
Kids may grow up wanting to be entrepreneurs, but “no kid dreams of growing up to be a venture capitalist,” says Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95). Thankfully, Bussgang has managed to do both and write about it, too. His recent book, Mastering...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Happening Fast
the Street’s 24/7 demands. “There is no substitute for hard work,” Erdoes said. “There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out.” Erdoes’s investment group has been very successful, and View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
"doing isn't leading." Asserting that the math skills needed to build a company are simple, he said, "If you buy something for a dollar and sell it for five dollars, you will be rich. The key is OB, social psychology, and leading. This is where the View Details
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- 04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour
for hourly workers, Morris realized: Companies lost money on training, and employees often started right back at minimum wage with each new job as they worked to learn an entirely new set of skills. This insight is at the heart of Syrg,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites
brain as well as left brain.” —Anand Mahindra (MBA ’81), Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. “This notion of the golden parachute — I wish we could just voluntarily all agree we’re not going to do that anymore,...
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- 12 May 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
advisor, and a stint as managing director of Sotheby’s in Japan, Shibayama runs the consultancy AG Holdings, which plans and manages corporate art collections and art support programs in his native Japan....
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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend (MBA ’84), View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world financial system. They...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Alumni Books
The Differentiated Workforce: Transforming Talent into Strategic Impact by Brian E. Becker, Mark A. Huselid, and Richard W. Beatty (MBA ’81) (Harvard Business Press) Many companies spend too much time and money on low performers while...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and new equipment—in short, way more money...
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