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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
they’re generating interest at the bank. Cummings intends to close that loop with Walden Mutual, which he founded in 2021 to create impact on both the deposit and lending sides of the balance sheet. (He asked HBS sectionmate Philip... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
the community -- its outside stakeholders. You can have responsibility at the top of the company, but if it doesn't permeate the entire organization the stakeholders can't count on it. What about bottom-line responsibility to shareholders? Any senior manager today has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon Valley has... View Details
- 09 Nov 2020
- News
Now Is a Good Time to Take Care of Ourselves
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Trust your instincts 98 percent, your observations 50 percent, and your conclusions 25 percent.” —Zynga founder & CEO Mark Pincus (MBA 1993), discussing the entrepreneur’s need to balance data analysis and observation when evaluating... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
economics to solve the problems of education resonated with me,” says Dias Griffin, who gave CHECC $13 million through the family foundation named for her and her husband, Ken. At the core of the program is a carefully curated curriculum that View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
embrace change.” At the same time, as a student of organizational behavior, Nohria said he understood the importance of remaining resolute about certain traditions that have made HBS great, such as the case method and professors close to practice. Striking a View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Navy veteran Dan Goldenberg (MBA 2003) was a week into life as a HBS student when the 9/11 attacks occurred, compelling him to join the Reserves just months after leaving active duty. It was a defining moment in the balancing of his... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
growing,” he trails off. “I’m not very good at sitting for 10 years and waiting.” “You plant the seeds,” Mawilmada continues. “Once they start growing,” he trails off. “I’m not very good at sitting for 10 years and waiting.” Managing the View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
clients while attracting new customers.” At Steuben, Haupt says that there’s an ongoing assessment of the appropriate balance between a product’s form and function and how that fits with the way people live today. In the past, she notes,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
using reunion committees and mailings, the Bulletin, and the Web to get the word out. Other potential programs might focus on work/life balance and career management. In light of limited faculty resources, the committee encouraged the... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
balance are our priorities,” says Yang. Pro-worker and pro-environment policies aren’t just a social good at Esquel. “They save money and strengthen our competitive advantage,” notes Yang. For example, polluted water impedes the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
accessible in other parts of the world can take on greater sensitivity at this stage of the Asia Pacific's economic restructuring. The challenge is to balance this sensitivity. We must make firms aware that the research cannot be released... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
positive picture, I’m afraid. Michael Kaufman: In 2019 the industry had 15.3 million employees; the forecast for 2020 was 15.6 million. I don’t know that we’ll see those levels in the future—as of early May, 8 million of those jobs have been lost. I do think the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
rejected Cook, and the balance from a private-equity firm, Charterhouse Group. “As a matter of principle” Charterhouse demanded that Rogers ante up $100,000 of his own money. “I told them it might as well be $10 million because I only had... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the book concludes that conservation (principally through energy efficiency) and solar energy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
stories of playing shell games with credit cards, using one to pay off another when the money wasn’t coming in. Where successful entrepreneurs were able to execute, though, it seemed to include a combination of two things: first, View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
a “guilty pleasure” author? Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s books, particularly The Vine of Desire. She’s a great storyteller. What’s one of your favorite books? A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is about four people from different origins... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
Taylor Jenkins Reid with Amazon. “They were both supposed to be filming now; we’re obviously waiting to see when it’s safe to come back.” Thumbtack North Star: “At graduation, Dean Kim Clark told us, ‘No success in business will ever make up for a failure at home.’... 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