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- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Founding Cochair, Partners HealthCare 1995 Retires from HBS 1995 Named Senior Advisor to the President of The World Bank 1997 John and Natty McArthur University Professorship established at Harvard 1999...
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Susan Young
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
large firms often encounter difficulties in formulating and committing changes due to the complexity in firms' activities. Beyond cognitive limitations, perhaps the most intriguing type of failure is when managers fully understand the...
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Martha Lagace
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Thomas Stemberg | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Stemberg, HBS 1973, started his career in the supermarket industry. By the mid-1980s, out of work and looking for an entrepreneurial opportunity, he stumbled on an idea for a new business — a supermarket for View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
sustainability" companies-exhibit fundamentally different characteristics from a matched sample of firms that adopted almost none of these policies- termed "low sustainability" companies. In...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
board meeting minutes, company strategy, financial operations, communications material and reports, and correspondence. Office and client files detail the business practices of...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
Bruce V. Rauner recently celebrated his 15th HBS Reunion in a big way, establishing a professorship in business administration at HBS that bears his name. At 40, he is one of the youngest alumni in the School's history to create an...
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James E. Aisner
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
While his friends have retired, 79-year-old Merle Bushkin (AB 1956, MBA 1960), a laid-back guy with the energy of a man half his age, is rocketing full speed into the challenges of entrepreneurship—launching...
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- 10 Jul 2024
- News
Next Level
Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally...
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Catherine O’Neill Grace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
skills than a strong gut connection with the material. “We can do some quantitative analysis because we’re getting advances from video companies and thinking about the potential television value of a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Many HBS graduates are now leading companies and nonprofit organizations involved in the environment or sustainability – as entrepreneurs, innovators, financiers, or philanthropists. Following is a selected list View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and later as director of...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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My Real Career
income statement. My office is now my closet, a haven where I hide from my four kids and the cleaning ladies who run my house. My suits are nothing but a dusty memento of my former life, occupying the black...
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Melody Koh
initiative. Melody began her career as a tech/media M&A investment banking analyst at Evercore Partners. Melody holds an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Commerce with...
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Venture Capital
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
young people and companies in need of skills. Year Up’s core program offers skills training and a six-month internship in high-growth fields like IT, Business Operations, and Finance. To date, the...
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
the way they provide these loans. Some of these firms are fintechs, but others are banks and yet others are nonbank financial intermediaries like business development companies...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Productivity Gains from Foreign Direct Investment: Macro and Micro Approaches By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—This paper discussed the importance of an “integrated approach”...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
Business Administration (SBA), she regularly visits companies across the country, often holding discussions with business owners and local bankers. After successful roles in consulting and venture capital,...
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Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations;
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Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
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- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
people spend less time at work by empowering them to take decisions without 2- or 3- levels up approvals ." Tema Frank said that "we need to move to a system where people are compensated based on results achieved rather than hours [worked]. There's a growing...
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