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James R. Kuse
Mortgaging his home in 1984, Kuse, along with a few other executives from Georgia Pacific, financed a leveraged buy-out to create Georgia Gulf Corporation, a major producer of specialty chemical products. Under his leadership, Kuse not only paid off the View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
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JJ Singh
ballooning national debt and a financial system in disarray. *** I want to change attitudes and the way we imagine our future. I want to influence policy so that we invest in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Making TV Look Like America
culture,” Burgos says, “where I can change the world for the better through good programming. We need shows that inspire us and bring out the best in us.” As the recipient of an HBS fellowship, Burgos says that having less tuition View Details
Francis B. Davis Jr.
In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional organizational structure. Davis reduced the company’s View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
thrilled to be accepted to HBS, but she wondered how she would pay for it and how much debt she could handle. Generous financial aid enabled her to attend HBS, where she blogs about her MBA experience. She... View Details
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Core Body of Knowledge - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Donham, a graduate of Harvard Law School and former banker, became the second dean of the School in 1919. Borrowing from his law school training, Donham introduced the case method, a teaching style that... View Details
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Anil Doshi
economists, operations management scholars, organizational theorists, and others studying topics ranging from open innovation to information technology to product innovation. I have borrowed freely from... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
However, like most social sciences, it’s historically based and typically involves one faculty member and their research assistant working on the case project. But there is a real opportunity here to adopt a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect with their communities View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
individuals, can borrow and adapt." That belief, they maintain, will require that some companies, in their own best interests, relinquish control over brands and "be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
discussed the strong community she found at HBS and her own personal transformation. In closing remarks, Dean Jay Light noted that “financial debts can be settled, but the gifts of fellowships endure.”... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
to supply beef markets around the world, but it faced a perfect storm of rising feed and fuel prices, a global credit crisis, and industry analysts skeptical about the company's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
In the land of the digitally connected, the mobile device is king. The majority of digital media consumption happens on mobile devices, with smartphone and tablet activity making up 60 percent of digital screen time in the United States,... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
of 2000. A customer entering the new center was immediately greeted at the door by a host—an idea borrowed from Wal-Mart and other retail stores. At freestanding kiosks, associates stood ready to help the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
how to help with student loan debt postgraduation and helped initiate the idea of proactive scholarships in advance of taking on student debt. He was comfortable with people of all walks of life View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)
didactic message, makes The Usurer’s Grip a period piece. But its plot and the plight of its protagonists are eerily modern. Nearly one hundred years ago, unwary borrowing from unscrupulous lenders had the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
As the campaign enters the homestretch, HBS is focused on its goal of raising $100 million for MBA fellowships. Student need for financial aid is continually rising, and HBS is committed to ensuring that qualified applicants from all... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
of Chicago, and Jorg Spenkuch of Northwestern University, investigates why children and grandchildren of low-income parents tend to remain in poverty, regardless of intelligence, their ability to View Details