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- 07 Sep 2020
- News
Where ESG Ratings Fail: The Case for New Metrics
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global... View Details
- 18 Jan 2011
- News
Yes, bonuses do work - " but for fruit-pickers, not City bankers
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
Harvard’s Brew House. When the pair sold the business in 2000 it had grown to twelve restaurants; after that, Byford plunged into his new career as a writer and independent analyst on international relations. He took a seminar at Boston... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
a senior portfolio manager for the firm, a position she had held since 1984. Fedak is also a member of the Small-Cap, International, and Global Equity Investment Policy Groups. From 1972 to 1983 she was a portfolio manager and research View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
Nestlé’s growth plans: Health products, including medical foods for patients with conditions such as Alzheimers’ and gastrointestinal problems, have become an increasing focus for Nestlé in recent years, with a string of acquisitions and investments. View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
his MBA, Sagansky spent a year as an analyst at CBS in New York before heading to the West Coast, where he worked at NBC and then with an independent production company. In 1982, he found himself back at NBC's Burbank facility, in charge... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked up an enviable 20... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
idea of “paying themselves first” by precommitting a portion of their refund to savings. U.S. savings bonds hold particular appeal among low- and middle-income families. Savings rates at tax-preparation sites that offer bonds are 8.5... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
annual list of the “10 Surprises” that investors should be thinking about in the year ahead. Taylor Becker (MBA 2025) met Wien as a first-year analyst at Blackstone, the only one of the 100 or so in his cohort to take Wien up on his offer... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
killed. Industry analysts and advertising experts told us that Tylenol was finished." As several HBS case studies point out, Tylenol was the country's best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever at the time of the poisonings, with 35... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
from the London School of Economics but decided to forsake the predictable routine of law and work as an investment analyst in London and on Wall Street. At HBS, Varma pursued his dream of becoming the business manager of a Formula One... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
growing: There are now nearly 1,000 space companies worldwide according to industry analyst NewSpace Global, and they are touting revolutionary (and mostly unproven) new concepts in rockets, space tourism, and even space services, ranging... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
become the next multimedia empire. As an ad on a Bloomberg radio station once declared, and as Bloomberg himself is demonstrating on a grand scale, "Success is simply information plus imagination." The journey that has culminated with Bloomberg heading his own private... View Details