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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
SCHARPF: Seeking cost-effective raw materials in Rwanda. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07) is on a roll. Determined to put her MBA skills to work addressing socioeconomic and public health problems in developing nations, she has launched a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
running M&A and strategy for a public company and did 17 acquisitions around the globe. I think of it as kind of one of those best laid plans stories. Sometimes it doesn't work out exactly the way you wanted it to and it takes a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
leadership position in the Northeast through the strategic use of new technology, marketing savvy, and a management style that encouraged staff to invest themselves in their work. In 1996, BayBanks merged with Bank of Boston to form... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
educational programs and from around the world. In any given year, about 5 percent of HBS MBA students are military—active duty, reservist, or veteran. The relationship between the military and Harvard University is often viewed by the View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
recently established a fund to support students who intend to work to improve society. “Today not only is the debt burden much higher, but the education the School provides is extremely valuable to those interested in public service or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
—World traveler, public speaker, and consultant Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) is the author of Hike Your Own Hike: 7 Life Lessons from Backpacking across America and The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us. While on his way to... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
work is not just the pricing but also the cost. What are you doing on the cost side to make your business viable? SS: I looked up a lot of public 10-K forms of pure media companies like the New York Times and saw that they’ve been doing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages. The Decade Ahead IDEAS RULE:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Reg Q was a capital control instituted during the New Deal to keep banks from raising the rates they paid savers and then chasing risky investments for a big payoff — all with federally insured funds. To get around Reg Q’s focus on U.S.... View Details
- 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 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Spencer, president and CEO of Sematech, bring together top technical managers from Alcoa, IBM, Intel, and Xerox and leading scholars of the history and economics of technological change. The result is an important discussion of the consequences of declining View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
the Girl Scouts of the USA, helped launch the ambitious G.I.R.L. brand platform to increase public awareness of the hundred-plus-year-old scouting organization beyond those ubiquitous boxes of cookies. When it comes to the Girl Scout... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
how knowledgeable and proactive the firms we visited were about sustainability; some of them are far ahead of firms in the developed world. They understand that it’s essential to their long-term survival.” Similarly, the group was impressed by regional View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
process, just grueling. Public and, you know, Jack was like the most famous business leader probably in the history of the world. Because, you know, the markets were booming. He was really famous. And so, you know, it was all like... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Ward - once synonymous with out-of-control crime rates, gang warfare, antiquated public housing, crumbling schools, and degrading poverty - have begun to show indications that there may be a way out of the hopeless downward spiral. In... View Details