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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Len Schlesinger Returns
faculty research in this area and trying to frame the issues that bubble up from there. What is it about the business world that energizes you? For me, it's very simple. When you combine a collection of really messy problems and...
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- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
younger audiences were finding new platforms; the world outside of the sports bubble was changing and sports was lagging. It felt like seeing a crack in the foundation. A year out of HBS, her head still swimming with Professor Clay...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As agencies and...
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- 24 May 2023
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Balancing Acts
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: What does "work-life balance" mean in today's post-pandemic world? Associate editor Julia Hanna asks this year's five recipients of HBS's Alumni Achievement Award to describe how they think...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
one of my last and most enjoyable flights. He was downright bubbly as we put on an impromptu air show over an Adirondack lake. Yet another had pages of combat time; he wrote my letter of recommendation for HBS. Those losses and more since...
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Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
meaningful, they are by definition hard.” Weeks has led Corning through some of the brightest and darkest times in the company’s 163-year history. After investing heavily in fiber optics, Corning’s stock plummeted when the telecommunications View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
partners and two other longtime colleagues talked through a list of aspirations and values that bubbled to the surface, like “curiosity,” “collaboration,” “fun,” and “honesty”—general qualities made granular through frank talk and close...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
who began using that dictum thirty years ago as one of his fundamental principles at Sealed Air Corporation. Dunphy turned the fledgling New Jersey-based company that initially made Bubble Wrap into the world's largest producer of...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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The People’s Pods
And because the addressable market has gone from that local geography to everyone, the best content, even if it’s in a niche, always rises to the top. HBS: How much money can really be behind this boom? What would a podcasting bubble look...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
act even though he had plenty of levers he could have pulled that didn’t have to do with changing interest rates. He could have raised margin requirements, for example. But instead, he came up with the ridiculously lame idea that bubbles...
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
all-time low," wrote BusinessWeek, "his U.S. experience [worked to his advantage]. He argues against the closed world of the keiretsu." Makihara had a full agenda when he took office. "Much of Japan's growth in the past decade had been based on a View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
FairMarket, the mother of three was taking the summer off to spend time with her family and see "what bubbles up." As to the future, Rudden anticipates heading another high-tech company: "Technology draws a great group of people who want...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks
classmates who had once been in the majority were now minority students, getting picked on by their Caucasian classmates. Shockingly, about 40 percent of Native American freshmen dropped out within the first two weeks. Essentially, the reservation system had been a...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
(and hugely leveraged) firms played a pivotal role in causing the crisis, inflating the bubble on the way up and driving the panic on the way down. They were also the undeserving beneficiaries of hundreds of billions in federal bailout...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
lawn, sell it, and walk away.’ As the housing bubble burst, those exit doors were closed,” he explained. “All of a sudden, we started to see record numbers of delinquencies, defaults, and foreclosures. The question was, who bore that...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was swelling up. She saw the company...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
2000, Sealed Air’s sales had reached $3 billion worldwide. When Dunphy arrived at the firm, its signature product, familiarly known as Bubble Wrap but trademarked as AirCap, consisted of a flexible, clear plastic sheet containing...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Big Bailouts, Little Debate
very senior policymaker, “we must wait for a widespread panic to solve the political obstacles that are preventing us from acting.” I’m also often asked whether we’ve learned our lesson. To which I can confidently answer: Of course not. We’ve lived through a series of...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
we are about to do so. The Dodd-Frank Act has its good points, but it will not be adequately implemented. Many in Congress are already trying to eliminate the new regulations. Bubbles will arise again; there may already be one in...
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