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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
after he graduated from HBS, when Loews bought Bulova in 1979. “Although Bulova had a strong brand name,” he explains, “we soon realized it was losing out to its Japanese competitors in technology, styling, quality, marketing, and... 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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
a huge and growing debt owed by the airlines, and it’s only a matter of time before those frequent-flier miles disappear. That’s something consumers can do right now, but most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Ejeh. Instead, he grabs his phone, pulls up the Lidya banking app, applies for the cash cushion he needs, and—a day or so later—gets the money in his account and goes about the business of expansion. Since he began View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
providers also faced reductions in jobs and pay. Another piece of the puzzle was the Scranton taxpayer, with a proposed 3.8 percent millage rate increase in property taxes. Even so, the district would need to View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Making TV Look Like America
culture,” Burgos says, “where I can change the world for the better through good programming. We need shows that inspire us and bring out the best in us.” As the recipient of an HBS fellowship, Burgos says that having less tuition View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
future leaders can come to realize their potential. We want to remove the financial barriers that stand in their way and alleviate the burden of debt so they can focus on becoming leaders who make a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Learning by Doing: Stock Pitching When it comes to getting an edge in a stock trade, HBS finance professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy urge students to go straight to the source. “We encourage them to get out in the field View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
to 2.5 million women across the country and launching his own startup, Salud Cercana (Health Near You), to address the issue of heart disease in low-income Mexico communities. One of only a few Mexican physicians with an MBA, Ocejo, 31,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Since his arrival in 1995 as its new president, James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) has set in motion sweeping cultural and operational changes at the World Bank. One of Wolfensohn's early initiatives, undertaken together with HBS View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
there is little education by family members or in schools about personal finance. Most students have no sense of personal financial control, nor have they worked to have a financial safety net. Graduate students and budding entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Jim Knott's Aquamesh lobster traps set a new standard for durability, quickly supplanting the wooden traps used by generations of lobstermen. Chinese knockoffs failed to match Aquamesh's patented process. Will business leaders reconnect with their communities View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
the heart of the company is very much tied to the economy. And so with the amount of debt we had, we had no margin. So we had to file for bankruptcy in late 1990. My hope was to preserve the company View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
viable,” says Slaughter. Today, CMBS represent a $550 billion market. It’s hard to overestimate the impact of this market restructuring. In fifteen years, the public equity and debt markets for commercial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young