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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
When Nancy Havens-Hasty stepped onto Wall Street after graduating from HBS, her first account as a corporate finance associate was not one of Kidder Peabody's several computer company clients, despite her background as a physics major at...
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Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
must serve "the new invisible hand," powerful, pervasive markets that affect almost every decision leaders make. As a result, struggle has become a central, nagging issue. Badaracco recommends addressing this "good" struggle head-on by...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
market. As an individual, you don’t want to stand out on a street corner and tap people on the shoulder and ask them if they’d like to donate their eggs or their sperm to you. You want an arm’s-length transaction. That creates a nice...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
dividends and compounding matter; explains options-trading techniques that will be beneficial no matter what the market does; analyzes real-life examples of investing opportunities; and provides tips on how to construct a portfolio, value...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
and Palepu's research, however, showed that conglomerate-owned firms in these markets often outperformed comparable stand-alones. “These business groups appear to Wall Street as anachronisms, but in the...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
(MBA 11/ ’47), and the impact they had both on Goldman and Wall Street itself. Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington Sidney J. Weinberg, 1950 In 1907, the brash and irreverent Sidney Weinberg, one of eleven children of a Polish immigrant, began...
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Garry Emmons
- Fast Answer
Commodities Research: data and reports
rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">Factiva - Current news on the commodities markets from a variety of sources (including Barron's, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, New York Times,...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
things: I am not Steve Jobs. I am not a genius.” — Tomoko Namba (MBA ’90), on stepping down as head of the Japanese mobile-games company DeNA to care for her husband. (Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2011)
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the context of an active View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
author detailing his current four-year journey through all 54 African countries at Africa54.com "Consumers will acquire a greater appreciation of targeted, personal marketing. A growing number of advertisers will embrace online marketing...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
lives can be better. "The digital divide isn't just about access. It's more so about attitude," Harris said. "Everyone wants opportunity. So if we can go into inner cities like we are in Playing2Win, and have a presence on the View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
markets have tightened, it's the companies with highly differentiated products that will be able to not only weather this storm, but come out the other side" in a strong position, says Harvard Business School Professor of Management...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
his way to meet a class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — places where only the entrepreneurial survive — are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy
a good idea and be willing to work to make it happen." Over the last century, Taiwan's economy was built on the success of its small and medium-sized trading companies. "Competition has always been fierce here, with people setting up shop across the View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
In the context of the computer industry at large, Professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that’s always been a bit different in “Apple Computer, 2006.” The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
up with Prem Ramaswami (MBA 2013) to gain some insider knowledge of a role cited by the Wall Street Journal for its coveted status among MBAs. Ramaswami, a senior product manager at Google (where he worked for nearly six years before...
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Julia Hanna
- Profile
Jaime Mendez
be as music director of Heard on the Street Singers (HOTS), an HBS a capella singing group. As for the future, he remains open to the unexpected. "I came to HBS because I wanted to experience something different. It's a...
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- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
political climate in the United States today, do you think that democracy is in jeopardy? Rebecca Henderson: Yes, I think democracy is in trouble, and there are two key indicators. One is that in the United States, according to a 2019 NBC News/Wall View Details