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- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
entrepreneurship, company location choices, firm governance, local business ecosystems, human capital, K-12 education, fiscal policy, tax policy, capital markets, environmental sustainability, democracy, and international trade. Scholars...
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- 05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid
running the market research firm Geosegment Systems Corporation, which he founded in 1991. In addition to its advocacy before the NRC, Popik’s group has become a regular at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the obscure...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Barksdale Group and former CEO of Netscape; Hank Barry, CEO of Napster; Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of QUALCOMM; and Carl Yankowski, CEO of Palm, Inc. Representatives from top venture-capital and consulting firms joined a diverse mix...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s Impact on Europe The article about General Georges Doriot in the June issue is quite informative about his great accomplishments. Left without mention, however, was the first venture capital firm in Europe, called European...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
we finally pulled the trigger, it was the difference between $30 million and $100 million. I STARTED OUT in a variety of jobs at the Times, most of them not very glamorous. I was a building manager, negotiating janitorial and security View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
first step was figuring out how to most effectively grow lettuce in climate-controlled shipping containers in this former root beer plant. “We’re doing this in a very logical, road-mapping way. We’re not trying to bend the laws of...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
initiatives. Recently, McGinn has taken a nuanced look at evidence that women in professional service organizations are more likely to be promoted when the firm's leadership includes significant numbers of women. Her analysis of five years of personnel data from a...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
University, 1964 A.B. Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Economics) Columbia Law School (International Fellows Program), 1967, J.D. "Pick a career that you will really enjoy. If your choice is based on just...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
justice, who signed yours?’ That put everything in the right perspective.” Banking vs. law: “The beauty of investment banking is you can get tremendous amounts of responsibility early in your career. That very much appealed to me. Whereas a View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
to have other people take control over your time. One of the goals of this project is really to talk about what the broader benefits are. I talked to a law firm that was trying to reduce burnout in their...
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
budget with Black-owned businesses. My dermatology firm's Black-owned. My law firm is Black-owned, my dental firm is Black-owned. And so I'm asking whites to do the same for...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged buyouts, which emphasized...
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- 13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
since then I’ve been trying to understand the economic gaps in the United States. Why are large groups of people systemically financially underprivileged?” One answer, Davis soon discovered, is a lack of access to real estate. Davis, now the CEO of real estate...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
applying to HBS, he worked at DuPont, served as a lieutenant in the US Army, briefly attended law school at Howard University, and worked at an IBM subsidiary. WILLIS: I walked into my first class at HBS, and I was the only black in one...
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- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
still wary of Mexico in the wake of a series of economic crises. In addition, he notes, "We now must compete against Internet companies for capital as e-commerce firms attract investors seeking high returns. But I think as our country...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of organization—a private-sector View Details
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- 01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons
conclusion turned her toward business school to research “how to build a sustainable business with a ‘double bottom line’ — a firm that is profitable and benefits society.” Choi aims to lead a company that will provide low-income...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc
consulting, he founded Warsaw-based investment firm Metropolitan Capital Solutions in 2009. Now, with his back to the former Communist headquarters, Maj strides across a newly established public plaza. Embedded in the sidewalk at his feet...
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