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- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
says. Over the next decade he proved that he was up to the task, so much so that in 1993, when the firm hit hard times, Bain CEO Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975) asked Tierney to head the company. “The rational response would have been to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
with the father of an MIT professor named Joe Jacobson, who was working on something at the MIT Media Lab that might fit the bill. What Wilcox saw when he followed up on Rayport’s lead — a thumb-sized patch of electronic ink smeared on a lab slide, with View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
making and the culmination of HBS’s yearlong centennial observance, the three-day event was designed to galvanize thinking and action around the 21st century’s transcendent business challenges. What no one expected, but what dominated the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
INK: Out of Exile
Dina Nayeri (MBA 2006) was born in Iran in 1979, the year of the Islamic Revolution, and grew up amid the sirens and rations of war. Her mother was a doctor, but also a Christian—a crime for which the Islamic Republic threatened to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
compensation used to consist of cash, in the form of salaries and bonuses, executive wealth today is dominated by stock-option holdings. This, in turn, has led to dramatic yearly swings in executive wealth, which are largely tied to huge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over two centuries, Swiss mechanical... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
portfolio of companies. Some go great and some don't. But the individual entrepreneur has all his or her eggs in one basket. They are the real actors; we're just the stagehands. Where the new economy is going We've clearly had our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
the biggest individual donors to his alma mater, the Upper Canada College in Toronto. Originally built in 1927 as the Student Club, the Georgian Revival–style Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of Wilder’s many contributions to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan Thomas J. Watson The runner-up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
analysis of the differing perspectives. As a result of the conference, Beer and Nohria have mapped out two dominant and conflicting archetypal theories of change. Theory E is based on the creation of economic value, often expressed as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
driven by hard-charging entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors can buy a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
Care Act move us any closer to that approach? I agree that the individual mandate is essential. But with Obamacare, agents who don't know our individual needs are selecting plans on our behalf, and that's... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
high-water mark for the valuation of an individual artist’s catalog: more than $500 million, according to the New York Times. Estimates by Music Business Worldwide suggest that investors, including many of the biggest players in private... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
upside down and might end up destroying it altogether. Some people even predicted that one huge trust would come to dominate the entire American economy. This may seem funny now, but in the context of the times it did not. At the turn of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
businesses that have dominated the space for a very long time. Their outdated approach has been such a disservice to the retail investor. I wonder if you think that this idea of the empowered individual... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
York City, a nonprofit composed of some of the city’s largest private firms.) As a result, she is always on the lookout for sectors that the city ought to dominate but doesn’t. Eight years ago, the sector in Gotsch’s sights was fintech—a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
Medina flagged a half-century ago seem destined to be repeated. Far from being a static industry with ossified giants, private equity features brutal competition and enormous dynamism. Groups that were dominant just a few years ago, such... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased... View Details