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- 01 Dec 2017
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Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
father had to take on loans, and it was his dream to have his own children attend college without the burden of debt or having to work during school,” said Jeannie, noting that her father became an... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
(government-run) system; or various elements borrowed from all of these. President Obama has said he wants to move gradually, beginning by insuring all children, and has expressed reservations about aspects... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
further in the near term and/or increase domestic borrowing vastly. An expanded federal role in the economy will crowd out financing available for productive private investment and diminish growth View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
of Chicago, and Jorg Spenkuch of Northwestern University, investigates why children and grandchildren of low-income parents tend to remain in poverty, regardless of intelligence, their ability to View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
As the campaign enters the homestretch, HBS is focused on its goal of raising $100 million for MBA fellowships. Student need for financial aid is continually rising, and HBS is committed to ensuring that qualified applicants from all... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
pursuing this kind of deep purpose? Gulati: It’s a great question. And I’d like to kind of borrow from the late Jim March, who was a professor at Stanford. He made an interesting distinction between leaders... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
buildings. Since it was not, technically, “on the air,” the station was unlicensed and not subject to FCC regulation. In January 1948, members of the MBA Class of 1948 who were radio hams had made it possible for HBS to receive the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
sentence structure.” Synthesis borrowed the use of narrative psychology from the IDF, which uses it to understand team dynamics and improve unit cohesion. If a company chooses Synthesis’ premium products,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
reforms.” In a freewheeling Q&A session with some 400 students in Burden Hall on September 30, Thain advocated action on three fronts: consolidating the six federal agencies that regulate financial institutions to eliminate overlapping View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mention for 30 seconds that Greece might have to do an austerity program, and they’ll repeat it 100 times over the next week. Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
management,” declares HBS professor John Quelch, an expert in international marketing and business development. He describes this style as an amalgam, built atop a U.S. model that has borrowed freely from... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
charities. The federal government contributed as well. SVA offered 12 percent return. Wind the clock forward eight years, and we met and exceeded our targets. We repaid the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
“hoping” that consumer and small-business debt will accelerate GDP growth (like Brazil did at the beginning of the century). Will this new measure take the Chinese consumer beyond tolerable levels of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the... View Details