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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
purchased the company in 1993 and is itself being sold (with FTC approval) to Time Warner. As of this writing, Horn would only offer that he was "close to a deal." Despite the challenges, Horn remains... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
1985) (Scribner) In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Tang presents for the first time in English the wisdom of Tang Taizong (598-649 AD), which is still being studied more than 1,300 years later View Details
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
out an alternative deal: “We’ll value your company at $20 million, and you keep half. You sell half the company for the same valuation, hold on to the upside, and still get money up front.” McAfee said, “I’d love that. I hadn’t even... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
worked,” she says. “But that extra time helped us build a show that will just be extraordinary.” From Baker Library: The US isn't the only region witnessing growth of music streaming services—China and Europe also show gains in the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
The pandemic has served as a wake-up call on many fronts, but to Anne Ackerley (MBA 1988), managing director and head of the Retirement Group at BlackRock, it has focused a particular spotlight on the retirement crisis in the United... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to nonprofits, and many more subjects.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
government guarantees, and (3) privatization backstopped in times of financial crisis by federal government guarantees only for new loans. The third option reflects a middle-ground position advocated by HBS professor David Scharfstein and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
beliefs,” Greenwood says, chalking it up to an abundance of optimism. Before the crisis, for instance, the “Armageddon scenario” for housing price growth in 2006 was a 5 percent drop. During the lowest point of the crisis, housing prices fell by 31.8 percent. This... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- News
A Common Purpose
way for us to come together as a section to celebrate Haydar’s efforts to build international relationships and global understanding.” “Instead of each of us making individual gifts,” Belkin says, “it felt more meaningful to raise View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Extending Opportunity: Brock Family Fellowship
money from family members. During her second year, she worked at Bain & Company to help finance her education. At the time of her 25th Reunion, Brock-Wilson established the Brock Family Fellowship fund to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
It’s one thing to dream of utopia; it’s another to actually invest in one. That’s what Boykin Curry (MBA ’94), a New York money manager, has accomplished by convincing an A-list of successful friends to buy into what he calls a “Creative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Photo courtesy Andrea Silbert As a child growing up in Brookline, Massachusetts, Andrea C. Silbert (MBA/MPA 1992) never hesitated when asked what she was going to be when she grew up. Like her parents, she and her three siblings expected... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace. Will anonymity be relinquished... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Good for Laughs
If there are jokes to be found amid the wave of corporate scandals, they’re usually on the shareholders. But hey, did you hear the one about the overcompensated CEOs? “They found out that making too much money is not nearly View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
shock, Nichols credits HBS with providing excellent skills and training for her subsequent career: consulting. After graduation and work as an investment banker in New York and Los Angeles, on a lark Nichols interviewed with McKinsey's... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Hong Kong, Esquel employs... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
attention, especially as click-through rates for traditional banner ads decline. Interstitials are pop-up ads that appear in full screen without any user action to activate them. They are short, animated messages that may interrupt the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 May 2013
- News
Experience of a Lifetime
Growing up in rural North Carolina between two towns with fewer than 300 people combined, Duke Buchan dreamed big. After living in Spain during high school and college, and earning a BA in economics and Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Buchan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
C.D. Spangler's School of Thought
accomplished leader in academia, business, and philanthropy—and the namesake of the School's Spangler Center—he has also been valued for his counsel by several HBS Deans. In light of that role, and in the spirit of Commencement as a... View Details