Offices of Bank Holding Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2003
News

These Are the Good Old Days

Given her unique perspective as head of a publishing powerhouse, Moore seemed the ideal member of the MBA Class of 1978 to provide an overview of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
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market is still the most efficient in the world,” he says. “Over the longer term, one can buy and hold investments and be confident that price disparities will smooth out with time and be reflective of real... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

(1979) and a DBA (1992), both from HBS. Stuart C. Gilson has been a member of the HBS faculty since 1991. His research focuses on how companies can create value by restructuring their assets, operations, and... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

access and connections to corporations in the region in order to develop case studies. "We must win the confidence of major companies in the region," Yoshino said. The Hong Kong Research View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

employees’ needs fit into a combination of six categories Werk devised after reviewing existing company policies, including “remote,” an employee who is never in the office; “desk-plus,” an employee who has... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

equity, and sold the company. But the investors, including our family, lost money. Professionally, my judgment of aggregate risk was honed through this failure. The company was international, run out View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow

liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

our network of group buyers.” More generally, how do you use what you learned at HBS in your work as cofounder and chief growth officer of Nilus? “At HBS, I gained full access... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal

corporations from using their foreign profits to build facilities in the United States. Business interests are calling for a so-called tax holiday, in which American corporations would be allowed to transfer their foreign profits to their American View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

The 2010 Alumni Achievement Award recipients have made their mark in a wide range of fields, from banking and investing to retailing, entrepreneurship, and space exploration. United by their leadership... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

the papers of influential business leaders and the records of innovative companies in the late 20th- and 21st-century global business world,” says Laura Linard, Baker Library’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

03 May 2013
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Looking Through Glass, Historically

Office I found 31 patents assigned to Westmoreland from, 1892 to 1929 — the company's creative years. The first was for a violin-shaped glass container for perfume sold by the company in its first year. The... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
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Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

College, is also committed to public service. Re- cently she put her career on hold for six months to help make a difference in the lives of hundreds of South African children.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

election but the “employer doesn’t have the right to force one.” The reality is that the only thing companies can “force” is the union’s hand. Does the union truly represent a majority of employees, or are... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2002
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Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity

discussed the Argentine crisis that began late last year. A professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Hausmann described the economic factors leading to the fiscal collapse and suggested policy implications for the future.... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Classroom Legend

beyond the banks of the Charles and transcend the study of business administration. When he received the School’s Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Christensen was honored... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual revenue collections totaling some $1.5 trillion. The... View Details