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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Alaska Fairbanks; descriptions from his family and other climbers; and other historical sources. I. The first time Terris Moore (MBA 1933, DCS 1937) saw the magnificent Minya Konka was in March 1930. He was sitting in the cozy library of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
students from abroad. Interestingly, too, we’re finding that citizenship isn’t always a good indicator of “international.” What I mean here is that more and more of our students have worked or studied or had some extended stay in a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
a Ph.D. (1968) in economics, finance, and accounting from the University of Chicago. Alvin J. Silk Alvin Silk, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is an expert on marketing. His recent research covers the economics of the advertising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
price, high value, subscriptions—that worked in a succession of businesses. Did the class see it? No. Did I see it, in real time? No. Keeps you humble.” The first case HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
time it takes to handle transactions are decreasing, "the need to have confidence in the people on the other side of the structure is as strong as ever." Wingspanbank.com HBS senior lecturer Sandra J. Sucher View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Foundation did a good bit of work in creating the Meth Project back in 2005, and that was created by Tom Siebel. Tom Siebel was a marketing guy who had been the number two person at Oracle and had created his own company. And he said, I'm... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5 billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy in August 1999.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
could reorder the way a lot of corporations work today. Instead of having 1,000 people in the same office, create localized offices or give people a budget to create an office at home. In doing so, you would significantly improve the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
many HBS graduates, to invest in new ways of solving old problems. The five social entrepreneurs featured below are a representative sample of the scores of alums who have dedicated themselves to creating or working for organizations that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
“Back then, the valley was still mostly apricot and prune orchards. When we saw some promising sign, we’d knock on the door,” says Johnson, who worked in a steel mill after earning his MBA and serving in the Air Force. “We’d tell them... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
for the marketing industry lies in developing transactional-based models that enable consumer and client to work together more closely." HBS professor John A. Deighton agrees, describing the Internet as a multidimensional "total... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
foreseen that the insights and problem-solving strategies they would gain would soon help them deal with the profound challenges posed by the pandemic. “The timing of the Leading People course I took in October 2019 was particularly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
"They must also develop a working knowledge of what our educational environment is about and what the norms and expectations are." Help on Arrival Intensive coaching sessions, such as those offered through International Orientation Day's... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
tell them that they were in and what were their priorities at that moment. And it related to finance. It could relate to work. It could work to charitable giving. It could relate to caregiving. They developed a whole framework. And then... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I spent a lot of View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) has been a health care investor since she graduated from HBS. Her fascination with the massive disruptions underway in the industry led her to found the Rock Health venture fund in 2010, and today... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
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Lessons in Perseverance
establish a third K–12 school, or instead create a university? By the time she finished the OPM program in 2001, however, a major problem had disrupted Deza’s thinking: her husband’s business had gone bankrupt and the family had to shed... View Details