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- 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims
reforms.” In a freewheeling Q&A session with some 400 students in Burden Hall on September 30, Thain advocated action on three fronts: consolidating the six federal agencies that regulate financial institutions to eliminate overlapping View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
Baer: From boyhood fan to leader of the franchise. One of Larry Baer’s (MBA 1985) fondest summer memories is of playing in the yard of his boyhood home in San Francisco on Friday afternoons, waiting for his dad to return from work. “I’d be out throwing a ball against...
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- 19 Dec 2008
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WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
buildings. Since it was not, technically, “on the air,” the station was unlicensed and not subject to FCC regulation. In January 1948, members of the MBA Class of 1948 who were radio hams had made it possible for HBS to receive the...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
are born, we need to acquire shelter, we work, we borrow or lend money, we sell things, we retire, etc. Our group takes these functions as our unit of analysis and asks, "At any given time View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
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Building Paths to Success
charities. The federal government contributed as well. SVA offered 12 percent return. Wind the clock forward eight years, and we met and exceeded our targets. We repaid the View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
can’t yet afford to pay market rates. For some qualifying students, the Rock Loan Forgiveness Program helps reduce their debt burden after graduation. FAST FACTS 45 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Rock Executive Fellows, View Details
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive
research vessel for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Two years of renovations were required to turn it into the DSSV Pressure Drop, a name Vescovo borrowed from a spaceship in author Iain...
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- 05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”
the Federal Reserve did surveys in the past few years, they discovered that 40 percent of Americans would have to borrow money if they had a $400 car repair bill. We have a lot of people who are on the edge. View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign debt is or what it means to default on sovereign debt. I think Khan Academy...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
Issue Focus: The Global Manager GETTING ORIENTED: On his first evening in Cape Town, South Africa, Jan Dolezal (HBS 2013) and his FIELD 2 team explored the city's bustling waterfront. Photo courtesy Jan Dolezal Learn about hosting FIELD2...
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- 15 Oct 2019
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In Pursuit of Academia
the work and knowing that a consulting salary would help mitigate the debt she and her husband, Alberto Fernandes (MBA 2012), had acquired to finance their degrees, she turned...
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- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
there is little education by family members or in schools about personal finance. Most students have no sense of personal financial control, nor have they worked to have a financial safety net. Graduate students and budding entrepreneurs...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
the heart of the company is very much tied to the economy. And so with the amount of debt we had, we had no margin. So we had to file for bankruptcy in late 1990. My hope was to preserve the company View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
viable,” says Slaughter. Today, CMBS represent a $550 billion market. It’s hard to overestimate the impact of this market restructuring. In fifteen years, the public equity and debt markets for commercial...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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Entrepreneurship at HBS
small companies alike now need to be versed not only in running the established enterprise but also in entrepreneurial action, which embraces change and seizes opportunities. To borrow a phrase from...
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