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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
says Lee, noting that it’s a business that’s fairly common in Europe, whereas Redbrick has virtually no U.S. competitors. Through its three funds financed by private investors, Redbrick buys up quantities of single-family houses in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
the physiological state of the human body. A much better method is to get information about the DNA, RNA, and proteins. Understanding that information will help us detect a disease before it becomes... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
capitalism.” “From the ’70s to the late ’80s, real estate was fundamentally driven by entrepreneurs with private capital sources,” says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
more information about the initiative, including events and research, please visit www.hbs.edu/healthcare/. The Health Care Initiative at HBS Robert Huckman and Peter Slavin have collaborated previously through the HBS Health Care... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
resumed his academic career at HBS and completed the first of several influential books, Arming America, an exploration of the military weapons acquisition process. After leaving the faculty in 1972 to immerse himself in a successful View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
legitimacy for an area of study considered difficult to teach and lacking intellectual heft. In 1978, Stevenson returned to the private sector, this time to become VP of finance and administration at Preco, a pulp and specialty-paper... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Steve Barger (MBA 1974)
Growing up, Steve Barger spent his summers picking crops in Oregon until he was old enough to work in the cannery his father ran. A graduate of Williams College, he has two children and is married to his hometown sweetheart. Barger is president of Northwest Cascade, a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
technology and customer relations, are models you'd like to emulate. Technology and customer relations are keys toward helping taxpayers have confidence in us and the way we do business. So we are looking at the private sector,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
capital in the world. It's time we had some kind of a health-care/SEC equivalent. There are some encouraging trends in the private sector. For example, Sears Holdings Corporation and Darden Restaurants are now giving employees cash... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
become the next multimedia empire. As an ad on a Bloomberg radio station once declared, and as Bloomberg himself is demonstrating on a grand scale, "Success is simply information plus imagination." The journey that has culminated with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
sustainable community development. We also work informally with a number of other groups, but project work is really only half of what we do. What is your other focus? Our other focus is advocacy — essentially influencing the behavior of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
losses, improve his finance department with the help of a Wall Street private equity firm, and make it a matter of policy to pay closer attention to managing the balance sheet. Makihara then turned his attention to improving Mitsubishi's... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
influence has become increasingly international, with approximately 329,000 employees working in 75 countries. Now the world's largest information technology company, it recorded revenues of more than $96 billion in 2004. While IBM's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
be a private matter, because I was a CEO and I was not happy. I recognized that what had made me really good at what I was doing was not something I was going to have forever. And it didn’t even make me happy—I was lonely, I wasn’t... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
flight, hop onboard, conduct business in the private cabin, attend their meeting, and fly home later the same day. The same would hold true for a Boston–New York traveler using the area’s smaller, regional airports. Leiman, Ogden, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
as from private foundations and other sources. Because The Bridge Group will be able to serve only a very limited number of nonprofit organizations, we want to discover a means to disseminate much of the View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
the intersecting worlds of social entrepreneurship. Using examples from nonprofits, foundations, private industry, and government, Keohane presents a history of social entrepreneurship, explores its impacts, and chronicles both the... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
where you’re aiming. That sort of fearlessness and ambition carried David through.” Another lesson occurred further into the company’s history. On the Friday before Christmas in 1990, van Bever and three other top-level managers, including Siska Shaw (MBA 1985),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
invariably take a close look at each and every boat. Very large power yachts have become a particular source of fascination. What are they like inside? Who owns them? Where do they go? In 2007, Doug Von Allmen, a private equity investor I... View Details