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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
she is quite petite, just over five feet tall, a figure all the more surprising given the force of her presence. It may help explain why, when crowding into the back of a taxi, Oishi insists on occupying the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
company are added to the drives by the neighborhood distributor. Hip-hop duo La Reyna y La Real also use the service for promotion, noting that most of their fellow musicians advertise this way. “If you dig deep into Cuba’s history, it’s full of events that have View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time horizons of many successful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
almost 9,000 miles of travel. "I think the logistical challenge that we have today in Brazil is probably bigger than any other country has seen." For Sender, the event has forced a complete rethink of operations at TAM, which flies to 42... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice, was a driving force in PELP's creation. He stresses that raising educational outcomes across the board is at the heart of the initiative's mission. "The challenge is to build great... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
his residence on campus. The dinner consisted of a small gathering of about five foreign students including myself and the Dean. The dinner made me more at ease about HBS, but more importantly, made me feel like I mattered because someone... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
“The first time I wore the shoes I took five minutes off my time, and my legs weren’t trashed.” For Kim and Coup, the decision to ink an alliance with Timberland was relatively easy despite some misgivings about hooking up with a much... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
expanding pool of leaders has been captured in an ever-broadening and deepening body of HBS case materials. The study of leadership, like everything else at HBS, begins with the case method. In the pages that follow, five alumni, whose... View Details
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
headlines had heralded the city’s resurgence against a backdrop of dilapidated houses, images now so clichéd as to be their own banal genre—“ruin porn.” But those comebacks never lasted long enough. This moment is different, Cummings says. Cummings lists the same View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
will fail," Sahlman warns, "which causes people to withdraw funding from the sector. So, we can expect to see a downturn in available capital over the next five years." Hot - Or Not? It is just such cyclical realities that cause HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
be, “How do we make remote work more strategic and long-term, and what does that mean in terms of how we communicate, socialize, and hire?” Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on how he encourages his remote teams to separate from work During the pandemic, firms... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
opportunity fund. How to Stash That Cash details how to invest your funds, using nine decades of data. It’s simple, consistently performing, ultra-low cost, and easy to implement. Founding Sheriff By Edward Massey (MBA 1967) Five Star... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
however, Bob suffered an injury that changed him from an athletic, outgoing personality to more of an introvert. BW: A key thing in my whole life was that I had a severe concussion when I was 14. We had four or five kids on each side of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Internet-enabled, branchless banking model. But Rodríguez doesn’t just hand these companies money and wish them well. He wants them to thrive—to grow and scale. He wants them to do so well, in fact, that they attract competitors, forcing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
beating time in five minutes,” says Prieto. “But conducting is a weird thing to explain. It is pretty much individual, so you have to learn how to express yourself.” And honestly so. “You cannot fake it. And you cannot be anything other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
Illustration by PJ Loughran Everyone talks about how quickly business changes. yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. In the pages that follow, we take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on to note that Dost has saved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
in 1968. Since her appointment to the faculty in 1971, she has been a driving force in recruiting women for prominent roles at HBS and has inspired legions of MBAs to pursue careers as health-care entrepreneurs and managers. As a pioneer... View Details