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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
to come up with an info memo, a business plan, a market study, and a sort of road show? —Herve Pourcines (GMP 3, 2007) DITKOFF: As in business, philanthropists typically want to see proof of concept before investing at a large scale. In... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
talent. But there were positives to being a part of a very small ecosystem. Haryopratomo: One of the benefits of working in a market like Indonesia, back in 2008 and 2010 was that there were so many problems that were really foundational.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
to intransigence and denial. Once-incipient threats are now full-blown, and combined with newly emerging dangers, options and solutions have narrowed. For the contemporary reader, there is between the lines of Energy Future a haunting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
win their tenth World Series,” wrote Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “They emerged from a disconsolate 83-win season, a 12–17 September, and a near-calamitous final two weeks to outdo the 85-win Minnesota Twins for translating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
mobilizing change through strong leadership. The Strategy-Focused Organization also introduces a new framework called the strategy map. By analyzing hundreds of scorecards over the last decade, Kaplan and Norton have mapped the patterns that have repeatedly View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
public offering. He sold COMPS InfoSystems six weeks before the market started to crash in March 2000. After taking a couple of years off to relax and regroup, Crane got a job offer to become CEO of Opportunity International, the world’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Dot Vertigo
prices and market capitalizations, loss of market share, failure to innovate, and reactionary cost-cutting). Organized in three parts, Dot Vertigo addresses the issue of business disorientation; the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. Regulation is not antithetical to market capitalism any more than... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
several decades before an effective system of rules will govern China"), the burden of bloated state firms, and lack of experience with a market economy. Yet the mainland giant is likely to "continue to grow rapidly for the next two to... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
theory was very attractive to me, and when I realized that financial market problems could be a legitimate area for serious academic research, I was off and running. One of the nice things about this award of the Nobel is that it further... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
distress for which critics blamed corporate managers, who were characterized in the media as “unaccountable plutocrats.” Out of this economic turmoil emerged a new view of American capitalism. So-called agency theory, developed and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
switch to CD format, sales picked up considerably as customers rushed out to replace their vinyl record collections with the same music reissued on the new technology. Now, explains Zelnick, the CD boom has played itself out. "The CD View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
one in every $10 of financing for innovative water businesses. “Imagine H20 is now global—about a quarter of the entries, which are, in number, about 100 a year, come from other countries. There are certain countries that are particularly... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
Clubs News Clubs News Clubs Welcome Professor Desai The HBS Club of Toronto was one of several alumni clubs to host HBS and HLS Professor Mihir Desai during his 2019 tour for his latest book, How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
IBM-based network built around Lotus Notes in the Advanced Management Program. These two initiatives led to enhanced faculty collaboration and the first use of interactive multimedia teaching tools for case discussion. Just as many companies during this period... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
has not had any defaults on $7.2 million in loans—large for a budding market like Singapore. At Austin-based online lending platform Able, founders Evan Baehr and Will Davis (both MBA 2011) have devised their own novel incentive to ensure... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
unfamiliar with complex management, he proved a superlative administrator, with a sure sense of managerial hierarchies . Most of all, Hamilton wrote—hundreds, ultimately thousands of pages: orders, letters, reorganization plans, essays on strategy, ideas for View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson