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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
billion market, I would go vertical for the next year or two. I would go deep and learn along the way to master the business fundamentals and identify parallel/complementary markets you can expand into. This will prepare the firm to go... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
same department in my new dealership. He did, until he retired for the second time. The great lesson learned for me was, anyone can go fire someone. It takes more effort, but the rewards are so much greater, to solve the problem that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS to Host Venture Capital Forum for Women
before the conference, honoring New England venture capital firms that have made significant investments in women-led firms. HBS professor Myra Hart and Angela Crispi, assistant dean and chief planning... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
Clubs News Clubs News Latino Alumni Reunite for 18th Annual Banquet The HBS Latino Alumni Association held its 18th Annual Banquet on April 29, drawing more than 100 HBS alumni and guests—including current... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
earning Klarman entry into the Alpha magazine Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. The firm has grown from 3 to 100 employees. A consummate team player, Klarman rarely uses his private office, choosing instead to sit at the trading desk where he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
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The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
students’ enthusiasm is no match for Buell’s; at first, they respond tentatively and carefully to the exercise, the same one that a group from the design firm IDEO undertook in the case the students prepared for the class. Then, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
Guy Spier (MBA 1993) didn’t wait long after graduation to make the biggest mistake of his career. Accepting a vice president’s role at D.H. Blair Investment Banking, the admitted Gordon Gekko wannabe had a front-row seat as several top execs at the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
We moved to Toronto from Mombasa, Kenya, when I was eight and my brother [Asif Satchu, MBA 1999] was six. For my parents to decide to come here and start a new life was, in many ways, THe ultimate risk. The immigrant experience is... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
outsourcing, and integration services company that he founded in 1965. First in a Wall Street Journal ranking of one thousand companies listed according to best stock performance from 1987 to 1997, Keane Inc is considered among the nation's top consulting View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact
impact, build leadership, advance philanthropic effectiveness, and accelerate learning. "You need strategy. You need talent. You need funding. We have evolved to provide an integrated package of those kinds of services," says Bradach, who founded the Boston-based View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
better-than-average pay. 1993 In response to outrage over executive pay levels, Congress imposes a $1 million cap on tax deductibility of executive compensation, except for performance-based pay. Afterwards, stock option awards explode as a way to tie pay to... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
companies prevalent in German-speaking countries—has long captured the attention of global business practitioners and scholars. Why are these firms so competitive globally, particularly in emerging markets, and how have they managed to... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 May 2024
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Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
2024. The launch marks the culmination of a two-year organizing effort by a core team of alumnae, working closely with HBS, to expand the former HBS Women’s Association of New York (HBSWANY) from a local alumni club to an association... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Secondly, we thought we would run it better. The California biotech firm famously failed to produce enough flu vaccine for the U.S. market in 2004. And thirdly, we saw that there was a significant growth opportunity due to View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Clubs News Clubs News Club Webinars Explore Untapped Potential of FemTech The HBS Women’s Association of Greater New York (HBSWANY), and the HBS Association of Northern... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
successes and setbacks —from launching start-ups and taking on the family business to helping kids in the Persian Gulf and harnessing new technology and developing clean energy—they reveal how the next generation of ideas, aspirations,... View Details