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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
get people who had different backgrounds and interests than us to make a diverse group.” Shin, a Korean-born mechanical engineer who has worked in high-tech finance, and Behrens, a software engineer from Illinois with finance experience,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
of things. The 72 alumni were among 400 who returned to campus to join 936 students for the inaugural HBS Boardroom, a new RC capstone experience that includes first-year student teams presenting case-based management decisions to alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
assistance. Back in Paris, he telephoned the Ministry of Finance to report he would not be making an offer; the factory was a disaster. No, no, he was told—we’ll help you. “I said well, if the minister of View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Amy Hood to take on chief financial officer role at Microsoft
Keywords: Microsoft; Skype; Yammer; Windows 8; Management; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
adaptability. In this work Christenson has drawn from several disciplines, including sociology, cybernetics, decision theory, and psychology. Christenson spent one year away from HBS in 1962 when he was asked to come to Washington, D.C.,... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
designed to descend a maximum of 1,000 meters. Could the company build a vehicle capable of diving more than 10 times deeper, Vescovo asked. “That’s something I had wanted to do for many years,” says Lahey. “But without someone who’s going to View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
finances dwindled. Finally, at age 12, after years of physical therapy combined with advances in medication, Massie walked away from his wheelchair and cumbersome leg braces. To this day, however, he must cope with pain and self-inject... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
course in corporate finance and the tools to apply the field’s proven, time-tested principles in the context of the family’s financial situation, including the key principles of wealth creation and management and methods for making one’s... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Bank in September 2015, previously serving a five-year term as director-general of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission from 2011 to 2015. An alumni profile of her during that stint details her transformative efforts at the Commission: Oteh's bold View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
important. We said it should move very slowly because each of these decisions involve so much money for the bidders that they have to go to their, some sort of finance committee or, or an executive committee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
center,” says Enriquez of the LSP’s central functions. “For example, we work with the Finance faculty, studying how to value assets and structure the finances of businesses as they change in the face of the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
compromises. But it can happen.” In a unanimous decision made shortly after her concluding remarks, the school board appointed Cognetti to its vacant seat. Headlines the next day put Cognetti’s Harvard MBA front and center—a fact she... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
weeks later, the team abruptly announced it would abandon its controversial name and logo. The decision was so sudden, in fact, that the organization offered only a temporary replacement. It would be known, in the interim, as the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Raising the bar for financial literacy
approximately 5 million students, from kindergarten through high school. "Opening a bank account is a one-time event. We're trying to teach kids skills and tools they can apply to any decision they may face going forward," she says.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the defeat of the Third Reich. Ever since, historians have agreed that this was Hitler’s gravest mistake. In Hitler’s Great Gamble, James Ellman... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
sire, he's a relatively inexperienced sire,” Klarman told the Baltimore Sun. “When the trainer loved him at the sale physically and he vetted clean, we made the decision to buy him.” Many noted that Cloud Computing came to the Preakness... View Details