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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
likely to end up in the pages of Vogue as the pages of the Wall Street Journal. (The Business of Fashion, founded by Imran Amed (MBA 2002), is a savvy response to that phenomenon) “Until fairly recently,... View Details
- 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.... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major newspapers. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, HBS professor Jay Lorsch and coauthors Martin Lipton and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 19 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers
field his generation should focus on, the field that would shape the future. Today's advice for aspiring graduates is also a single word: "software." In a sweeping Wall Street Journal article last... View Details
- Web
William Donaldson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Full Transcript (PDF) William “Bill” Donaldson, HBS 1958, was one of the founders of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). In the late 1950s, a new breed of institutional fund manager required higher quality research on firms’ projected stock price performance than was... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
technology and information revolutions. Opening the floor to questions, Corzine was asked about diversity in Wall Street firms. He responded that in this era of globalization, "Goldman's client base is now... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
International Dinner on May 29. The black-tie event brought together more than four hundred HBS alumni and other business leaders at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. In his speech, Paulson emphasized the need for corporations and Wall View Details
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
grindstone building out Prokanga’s finance practice. “The power of the HBS network when you’re building a business cannot be underestimated,” says Cheney. “It is unbelievable.” The Gig Economy Meets Wall View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly? Why did Wall View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
Alvaro Dominguez Alvaro Dominguez In early 2018, a New York startup called Roomi opened itself up to the type of investors known by Wall Street traders as “mom-and-pop investors,” although an IPO was nowhere... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
The path from the rural South to the upper echelons of Wall Street is not heavily traveled. Indeed, E. Stanley O’Neal (MBA ’78) is surely the only person who has made the journey from the fields of Wedowee,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
relationships. Unfortunately, many corporate leaders focus on profits and the Wall Street drivers toward big business and profits. It has become the death knell for many corporations." Phil Harris,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Stall for Black Enrollment in M.B.A. Programs,” The Wall Street Journal, June 17, 2020, wsj.com, accessed June 17, 2020. This post was originally published on HBS Working Knowledge. View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
No-Fist should be an attractive alternative for both sides. Like a strike, it permits an unfettered war of financial attrition; unlike a strike, it ends with a windfall, competitive advantage intact, innocent bystanders upright, and customers happy. Adapted from an... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
industry. Joined in 1979 by Douglas M. Schair (MBA '71) and another partner, Hawes followed an ambitious agenda. By 1988, the firm had completed more than one hundred deals and outdistanced even the leading Wall View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
Wirecutter, earlier this year—what’s next for media companies? Do you see hope for the local newspaper that is not the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal? Our country needs a healthy local news... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
employ and train a cadre of professional directors to serve on corporate boards (see sidebar, page 35). And HBS professors, drawing on their areas of expertise, have attempted to influence the debate through opinion pieces in major newspapers. Writing in the View Details
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
permission. Most companies will not begin reinvesting until the Wall Street Journal or Ben Bernanke officially declare the recovery underway. Get ahead of the crowd. Craft your recovery plan now, and pull... View Details