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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax rate on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
directions. Fads can be mistaken for trends; the flavor du jour can masquerade as a time-tested recipe. An ephemeral stock price can be made to seem a permanent achievement, an unwavering final verdict. The temporary opinion rendered by... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
scenario that seemed unlikely just a few decades ago — affect what we teach and how we carry out our research. We must test our ideas against a broader range of experience and bring work informed by this... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
only is he trying to make this breakthrough technology accessible, but he’s also competing against the likes of IBM and Google for market share. The story, “Quantum Leap” appears in our June issue and is written by contributor Alexander... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- News
If I Were You
are not glamorous things a lot of times. Like they’re just , you know, picking up phone calls. Calling brokers and doing work, reading over agreements. But those are actually where you spend a majority of your time, and just having the drive to View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
is based in Santa Clara, California, and managed by a CEO hired by Yeh. But this year, while carrying a full HBS course load, Yeh still spent about forty hours a week on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
at my new employer, I found myself “between jobs.” I happened to meet Walt by accident one evening walking on the street where I lived. We exchanged greetings and chatted for only a few minutes. I told him I was temporarily out of work... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
keep pushing ourselves forward,” says Frey, who completed the final leg of his journey in April 2016 by sailing 6,000 miles across the North Pacific Ocean in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Drawn to the ocean as a young boy... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
trailers pulled out of a Pfizer plant in Portage, Michigan, carrying the initial doses of a coronavirus vaccine—each preserved at -70 degrees Celsius —to 636 different locations across the country. “If supply chain folks do their job... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
learning how to assess a player’s potential. DeWitt Jr. graduated from Yale University and HBS, but he had enrolled in Baseball U. many years earlier. At age six, as a batboy for the St. Louis Browns, he met Babe Ruth; when he was nine, Browns’ owner Bill Veeck... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
plants. If fuel for backup diesel generators were to run out, such as might happen if a prolonged power outage rendered fuel resupply impossible, the water in the spent fuel pools would boil off and cause the fuel rods to catch fire. Plumes of smoke would View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
educating leaders who make a difference in the world. As I have said before, business is a powerful force for good in society. As one example: a recent Pitchbook survey found that between 2014 and 2024, nearly 1,900 HBS alumni founded companies funded View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
other cities about HCZ’s approach, he stresses the importance of the long view. “Ending poverty is not something you’re going to see done within an election cycle,” he says. “It’s a lot of hard work that has to be carried out View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
carried out by standing committees of the Board of Directors, with each director serving on at least one committee. This year's candidates are: Scott C. Collins, AB '87 magna cum laude, JD '90 cum laude.... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
team and, you know, how to wash dishes, all skills I carry with me today. At spring reunions, we asked the alumni to share stories of their worst experiences in the working world. And this episode includes all sorts of life-altering... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
pages of the HBS site, including class notes), plugged in “Olympics,” and got 1,444 hits, most of them about alums or their family members involved in carrying the Olympic Torch; organizing, supplying, cooking for, securing, coaching,... View Details