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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC firm 500 View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
other needs), worsening inequality, and increasing social and political conflict. And with improving technology and intensifying global competition, they will only grow worse if America’s K-12 education results don’t substantially improve... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
company is doing a good job preparing for Y2K, you may have essential business links to companies that aren't. Is my desktop vulnerable? Yes. A computer is different from most other consumer products. When you buy a new car, you trade in... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
author emphasizes the contribution of his own mentor, Malcom McLean, the inventor of container shipping, and the links between American thought leadership and the extraordinarily efficient industry that subsequently unfolded. In addition to highlighting the industry’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
younger brother grew up speaking French and a smattering of Arabic. Cohen’s father, whose family traces its roots to the Syrian trading center of Aleppo, started a successful import/ export business at age 30. After the Suez Canal crisis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and the founder of the Tang dynasty, Taizong’s chief accomplishments were on the battlefield. He defeated the descendants of Attila the Hun, opened up the Silk Road trading route, created a golden age of prosperity and cosmopolitan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade through the Marshall Plan and Japan's economic renaissance,"... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
financial institution, but our clients were the heads of equity, the heads of sell-side research, sales and trading in investment banks. So, you have this career, which I really enjoyed. There were a couple of transitional points with the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
majority are men and women with families in all different stages. Some have small children, budding high school athletes, or aging parents, while others are just married or are recent grads who want to travel and gain global experience... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
was on getting back to business as usual, with articles such as "Business, Global War, and the Future" in 1943 and the "Postwar Outlook for Business" in 1944. In the 1950s and 1960s, scores of articles - frequently authored by HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Gamble, and other consumer-goods businesses. "Create or identify the need, and then fulfill that need in a big way." Lopez arrived at Starbucks in 2004 to lead its global consumer-products division and, over time, expanded his... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
“Englishnization” requirement—the subject of an HBS case study—includes programs designed to help staff pass proficiency tests. Admitting the policy is “drastic” and “controversial,” Mikitani says simply: “If we want to have one single View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members, Lloyd Campbell, then a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston (and currently a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
outward-focused and more interested in helping other people and giving back what I’ve learned. Walker The former chairman and CEO of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners’ global private equity group, Jeffrey Walker... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. The resulting View Details