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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
single-family houses—the largest strictly single-family housing market in the country,” Rhea explains. Lafayette Park, the Detroit neighborhood where he grew up in the 1970s, is one of the few exceptions. Populated with high rises and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Business Environment in the 21st century
authority is low and conflict is high (unlike in the past, where their authority was high and conflict low). Comments Joe Bower, “There’s a multitude of business schools that focus on the problems of running modern public corporations.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England HBS Association of Boston Marco... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
college. At the time, I was studying economics and found the topic fascinating, from an economic theory perspective; it was—and still is—an unprecedented market failure and tragedy of the commons on a global scale. “Over time, my interest... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
moratorium on commercial whaling. The research is widely seen as an excuse to sell the subsidized meat to a Japanese public increasingly turning away from it. For what it’s worth, I hate conflict, and being in my 40s, I feel fear. I was... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
economy as a whole. The authors, who include HBS professor Dorothy Leonard-Barton and Rosenbloom, explore new ideas for linking research with commercial markets and identify the policy choices for industry, government, and universities as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in performance when those states... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
investing, and I wanted to explore those from an academic perspective,” Owusu-Kesse recalls. Looking back at his three years in graduate school, he notes, “Surprisingly, one of the business courses that helps me the most in what I do today was Professor [Anita]... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
market capitalization. The book examines how misguided investment and acquisition strategies have created the paradox that, in media, the faster revenues grow, the worse their stocks perform. The Elements of Investing by Burton G. Malkiel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
transformed the magazine from a more academic publication to one that targeted business managers with relevant, accessible articles. He shortened articles and even added cartoons, a decision that appalled some. His aim, Levitt told View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
voter participation, and strengthening the pipeline of leaders entering political races. For Ballou-Aares, this mission is personal. Growing up with a single mom and limited resources, riding the subway back and forth to public school,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation across the Nonprofit, Private,... View Details