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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
the "disaggregation" of financial services. "For example," he said, "mutual funds rather than banks now provide many types of services." The cumulative effect on households is that individuals must now make major financial decisions... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
conference with the hope of returning to the country when the situation there is stabilized. We offer our most sincere thanks to members of the organizing committee in Argentina that worked so tirelessly in support of the conference and,... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
have expected an American to have to be going through. And part of it had to do with drugs. Part of it had to do with not having enough money. But even just the spending decisions that they made when they had a little bit of money—it just... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
campaign. To “put it all into action,” she says, the HBSLAA is assembling the Latinx Board Taskforce, aimed at connecting board-ready Latinx alumni and board decision makers to “move the needle on driving diversity in the boardroom.” Club... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Afya Pamoja analyzes these data to provide actionable insights to public health officials to support responsive and accountable decision making. In the summer of 2021, DeBere’s Social Enterprise Summer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
presidential skybox for her research into the entertainment industry's most successful stars and products. Her brand-new book, Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment (Henry Holt), examines the behind-the-scenes View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
über-rich and the elimination of the Bush tax cuts (I support both), why would I ever allow that to happen when it doesn’t address government’s insatiable feeding of an ever-expanding bureaucracy, its unwillingness to confront... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
ability to benefit had Iridium been successful. This ability to facilitate large, risky investments without jeopardizing sponsoring companies is one of the main benefits of project finance.” More and more firms are turning to project finance to View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
The Harvard Business School Campaign has played a critical role in advancing the School’s mission through the “Five I” strategic priorities. Selected highlights of new activities made possible by generous support from alumni and friends... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
the key decisions about the renovation made early on centered on the crucial role of books. Electronic resources, of course, were also deemed important, but not at the expense of books. It was clear that HBS’s vast — and rare — holdings... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
naive confidence that I’d be successful, so I just put one foot in front of the other, built my network, and made the best long-term decisions I could.” “I always had the naive confidence that I’d be successful, so I just put one foot in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
decisions that have important long-term consequences for founders and their ventures, particularly the issue of whether to cede company control for financial gain. “Rich versus King is a very familiar paradigm for me,” says Bussgang, an... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
and I was trying to make a decision whether to leave this particular company or not. And he just blurted that out, sort of. And it has always stayed with me and helped me make a lot of decisions in my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts to the health care venture... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael G. Mullen, AMP 109, 1991
strong, decisive leadership. Although he is far too humble to admit it, his own experience as a naval commander as well as serving in the United States’ highest military position, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a case in point.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Foundation in Chicago did a one-hour speech. And the one-hour speech was imploring the audience in one of the prominent business clubs in Chicago to support financial reparations to the Black community. I'd never heard or seen anything... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
members of the HBS community and notable supporters of the School’s Global Initiative. As an investor, what was your biggest flop? I don’t think that way. What’s your proudest achievement? My family. If you have a decent family, nothing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Lambert sold Centennial One, the building services company she started in her Maryland garage 25 years earlier had twelve hundred employees and annual revenues of $20 million. Although her family and friends had initially been surprised by her View Details