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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
opportunity to create products that enable consumers to easily do the right thing,” says Paiji Yoo. It’s a sentiment shared by founding member Gina Pak (MBA 2015) who, as Blueland’s head of Marketing and Experience, was the one to deliver... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
individual citizens are protected. Tracing governmental involvement in risk management to the early 19th century, Moss shows how government institutions have served to promote capitalism and economic growth by shifting risk from... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan
of the wildly successful American technology stock market. Launched last year as a joint venture between the U.S. Nasdaq, Japan’s Softbank Corporation, and thirteen leading Japanese and foreign brokerages, Nasdaq Japan aims to break the stranglehold of the dominant... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
is a diversified financial services holding company with more than 2,500 offices around the world, 14,000 associates, and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. James has always had an independent spirit.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t need but still... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
Michigan. “My faith is part of what drives me to serve others,” he says. On a mission to bring safe water to Cambodia, Goodwin realized such basic services needed savvier marketing and better business strategy. While Cambodians happily... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
Or take Warren Buffett, who has played a key role in the global capital markets for several decades. Steve Jobs is another example of an entrepreneur who changed the world. So too is Bono, the lead singer of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
have been researching the root causes and consequences of the crisis in the intervening decade, helping to shape our understanding of the economic and financial forces that brought us to the brink. MORE Former Treasury Secretaries Hank... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
microinsurance market. She finished HBS as a Leadership Fellow, launching Accion International’s microinsurance program in 2005. A follow-up project at Capital One, introducing prepaid debit cards to unbanked customers in the United... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my estimation, an unnecessary $100 billion loss to the American taxpayer. I had learned by experience—the "bitterest" road—the power of vested interests in DC, and resigned after two years. Yet despite my failure, I had acquired a deep understanding of View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of society rather than the narrowly... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
here at HBS. Then actually got called up by one of my portfolio companies that I had led as a private equity investor and ran M&A and strategy. So that was my coming out of that. What I found most interesting about the story is I left Parthenon View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
production of a commodity that most Indians needed, I didn't mind." Bajaj's antiestablishment views prevailed, and by the beginning of the 1980s, Bajaj Auto had increased its annual production to 172,000 vehicles. Today, with revenues of $1.5 billion and a View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
Earth. This book is an invitation to live in another story, the story of sustainable abundance. Cleantech Sell: The Essential Guide to Selling Resource Efficient Products in the B2B Market by Tony McDonald (MBA 1989) Cleantech Sell... View Details