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In the News - Entrepreneurship
and Purchase a Small Business Re: Royce Yudkoff 29 Aug 2024 Business Insider Hollywood’s New Hot Business Strategy: Celebrity BFFs Re: Jill Avery 16 Aug 2024 Bloomberg HSBC’s Play for Mideast Wealth Marred by Exits, Regulatory Curbs Re: Christina R Wing 06 Aug 2024...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
the worlds of technology and e-commerce gathered for the daylong "CEO Millennium Forum," an event jointly sponsored by HBS, Microsoft, Forrester Research, and the Wall Street Journal. The forum was also the subject of an hourlong...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
who might prefer guaranteed tax-free retirement income not subject to Wall Street market fluctuations. The Tanner Extraction by Frank X. Biasi (PMD 41, 1981) F.X. Biasi Falling in Love Backwards: An Unlikely...
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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
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
they'd like to have some very low-risk assets like cash and fixed income and — rather than worry about the public-equity markets — barbell that with much higher-risk assets, such as private equity, real estate, and hedge funds. How would...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through...
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- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
out, "There is already available in proxy statements what the compensation is. It's supposed to be public knowledge, except few of the public learn of it, and few investors, apparently, get upset." Ravindra Edirisoorlya said that "the View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Anthony Tan
To most aspiring business leaders, Anthony Tan had enviable career prospects. The scion of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families, Tan is the son of the CEO of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd, one of Malaysia’s biggest automobile distributors. As head of View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
positions had been filled. Undeterred, Boris had his two sons, Albert and Ted, stage a fight at the street corner. When the security guard left his post to break it up, Boris slipped into the building and talked his way into a job. That...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital and doing things that the world as a whole needed, and that the View Details
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Finance
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
accountability and governance, and development and marketing. Professor Kash Rangan, who cochairs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, reviewed his research on nonprofit trends. Professor John Quelch, a marketing expert, focused on...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a move. The problem, according to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a...
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- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
overvalued stock market looks like a casino of smoke, mirrors, and all-too-frequent bubbles. Then there’s gasoline, food, and heating, basic expenses that are suddenly breathtaking. Oh, and merchants are refusing dollars in India and...
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- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
authority," Sadun says. Personally, she was curious about a trend she was noticing first-hand while attending the London School of Economics. Tesco, the second-largest retailer in the world, was opening small shops on street corners...
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- 17 Aug 2011
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Breath of Life
but brought back from the brink of bankruptcy by its current president David Green (MBA ’91). Explaining that a natural trachea is shaped by its “scaffold” (its framework of cartilage and muscle), the Wall Street Journal (July 8, 2011)...
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- 03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
firm with fewer than 500 employees, in my book I focus on three kinds: sole proprietorships, Main Street businesses, and suppliers. All three groups seek financing from loans and have traditionally used banks as their source. Of the 30...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
years that they won anything at all. When I was at McGill, I sent out over 100 résumés to Wall Street firms and was rejected everywhere. Then I found out there was a Canadian working in HR at Merrill Lynch. I called her, and after we...
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- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
businesspeople, we've seen ourselves as helpless" in eradicating seemingly intractable problems like poverty, he said. Though giving money and volunteering time are good things to do, a better solution, he insisted, is to apply View Details
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by Martha Lagace