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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital and doing things that the world as a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
the additional risk and legwork involved in making an independent film can pay off in creative control over the final product—even after a studio accepts a film for marketing and distribution, executives can’t demand that the ending a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medication, to reflect the availability and efficacy of a test to guide patient dosing. Are there other countries that are making more progress on this than we are? Several single-payer systems have been more aggressive in personalizing medicine and View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
introduced in 2007. Created to provide educational experiences that complement and extend classroom learning, immersions offer students the opportunity for intensive exposure to an industry or region of the world. Demand was high: This... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
flourished as did the nation’s social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
preparations or do certain things? None whatsoever. WHO is a part of the United Nations and is thus a member-state organization. WHO has no authority to compel its members to do anything they are not inclined to do. Even if only voluntary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
with the demands of career and family. “It’s a trick, a skill, an art, a science that very few people manage,” he said. After the highs of achievement, Sahlman broached the darker subject of tough times. “You turned immediately to me.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
knowledge in the form of articles, speeches, and research projects and books,” says Bradach. Even now, despite the economic turndown, demand for these services remains robust as organizations struggle to do more with less. “In the second... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
covering basic facts about the country and legal questions about travel from the United States. (“Which is still legal,” says Gordon, noting that the misconception is widespread.) But most of what Benedetti lays out about the challenges... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
base you understand and that values your ability to address their needs effectively. Small businesses often make the mistake of trying to scale horizontally before they’ve fully explored or satisfied demand in their current target... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
the world. And the change is that the [00:04:00] consumption of content, whether you are growing up in India, whether you’re growing up in the United States, the millennials today are consuming the same content. So when my children come... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
donor. Eventually, she received a transplant, after Harf and his friends had started to frantically recruit potential bone marrow donors all over Germany. On her deathbed, Mechtild demanded that Harf stay committed to the fight against... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
You Want by Tamara Erickson (MBA ’78) (Harvard Business Press) Erickson shows how members of Generation X — the 30–45 age cohort sandwiched between Boomers (who refuse to retire) and Gen Ys (with their relentless confidence and demands... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
markets,” says HBS professor emeritus Walter J. Salmon, a specialist in consumer marketing and retail distribution. He cites “cultural sensitivity” — the ability to know what consumers will want before they know it themselves — as a key attribute for success. Factor in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
stars. Successful professional service firms are able to do this more or less consistently on a long-term basis. We found there are four critical aspects to managing these firms effectively: strategy, organization, culture, and leadership. Success View Details
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
labels. Over the next 15 years, as the use of e-mail and the Web expanded, the work of the Records Office became more complex and demanding — paradoxically even as alums could do more and more online themselves. Do you remember, back in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
describe the new conjoining of responsible environmental practices with sound business principles. Defined in 1984 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development as business and development activity that "meets the... View Details