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F. Warren McFarlan
Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962. He has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced...
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
Warren Buffett, the Sage of Omaha, blew in from the prairie last October, and some 1,oo0 HBS students responded with standing ovations before and after his wide-ranging remarks. The energetic, 74-year-old Berkshire Hathaway CEO did not... View Details
- 10 Jun 2016
- News
Korea's Warren Buffett
Warren E. Buffett
Under Buffett’s leadership, Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price increased from $12 dollars a share in 1965 to a high of $4,200 in 1987. Berkshire has made a career of picking winners including Geico, the Washington Post, and Capital Cities/ABC. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three years after declaring that his influential holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, would no... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- News
Warren Buffett Is Just an Average Employee
- 04 Mar 2020
- News
Warren Buffett has the right answer to crony capitalism: women
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own
becoming president of the local farmers’ market at 15. Her post-HBS career began at Berkshire Hathaway, where she was hired after sending a letter seeking employment to the firm’s legendary chief executive and chairman, Warren Buffett.... View Details
- 23 Oct 2014
- News
The Man Who Taught Warren Buffett How to Manage
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
- March 6, 2020
- Article
Warren Buffett Has the Right Answer to Crony Capitalism: Women
- 14 Feb 2013
- News
Warren Buffett just put a lotta ketchup in his cupboard
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Why Wall Street Cannot Beat Buffett
- 06 Jun 2011
- News
Warren Watch: Ethical 'blind spots'
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
When Warren Buffett speaks at HBS, it's always standing room only in Burden Auditorium. The cavernous hall fills up early, reverberating with the mounting excitement of a revival meeting. When the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Heinz Co., and will leave those posts early next year, the newspaper notes. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett noted that Britt Cool spent much of her time at Berkshire aiding struggling companies,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
values, Spier begins his redemption by starting the Aquamarine Fund and by channeling none other than the king of value investing. When Spier saw Warren Buffett speak at HBS, he wasn’t much impressed. That... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
Maheshwari, who asked, "Why not ask Warren Buffett to invest the bailout amount on behalf of Govt (he works for money, does he not?) ." Several responding as a group from Bethel University asked whether it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Firm Foundation
special.” Britt Cool’s plan to enter the investing world began as an undergrad at Harvard. She cofounded a women’s investing group on campus and visited Berkshire’s headquarters with the group. By the time she completed her MBA, she had encountered Berkshire CEO View Details
- May 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On September 23, 2008, in the midst of an historic crisis in the U.S. financial markets, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs. Goldman CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, said: "We are pleased that given our longstanding relationship, Warren... View Details