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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price." "Very smart people looked at Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
affected the entire industry, Aero’s premium fares allowed it to absorb the costs more readily than airlines that operated on a slim profit margin. Investors have seen promise in the Aero model. In August, the company closed its Series B funding round, raising $65... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
commitment to ethical behavior was the only way to right the ship. “You have to tackle problems head on and fix them,” says McNerney, who tested his crisis management chops again when confronting delays, cost overruns, and reliability... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
invest outside the country and immigration rates to rise. Is the immigration trend related to the growing number of Western-educated Chinese? Over 300,000 Chinese students enrolled in various US colleges and universities last year.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
percent of Hong Kong's exports involve China either as a source or market, and 60 percent of the total investment in China is channeled from the territory. In addition, he said, Hong Kong is an outward-looking economy that serves a wider... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
permissions to travel through the country, and Lamb could not obtain them. Lamb planned to continue on illegally, but Moore and several of the others refused to do so, and the lawsuits began. Moore lost most of the $6,000 he had invested... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
of the job? “The best parts have been the relationships—with patients, and with peers. As residents we rotate onto different services each month, but the bonds that we form with our patients are real, and the sense of investment in their... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
And they're, in our minds and in other people's minds as well, very good investors, specifically when it comes to science-based companies. And so really this was, to my mind, kind of the be all and end all. I just really admired a lot of the companies they View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Executives Without Borders is about. We make sustainable, knowledge-based investments that help to stabilize communities and, over time, make the world a better place. How do you choose which NGOs to help? We get involved with projects... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
dollars to spend in a given year, you're better off making 100 movies that each cost $10 million, or 20 that each cost $50 million. But it turns out that it's much safer to make a handful of really, really big bets. On average, the biggest View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
innovator, she is a nationally recognized expert on the electorate and is the founder, chairman, and former CEO of C Space. She serves on four corporate and four nonprofit boards and is CEO of Salient Ventures, an angel investment company... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
promoter of development? Foreign investment will play a small part, possibly a catalytic one, but at the end of the day, countries will get richer due to the activity of their domestic private sector. That said, to a large extent,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
talent, so we can retain top people for the long haul with attractive compensation. Our total invested capital to date is equivalent to the budget of a small elementary school, and we’re reaching 4 million students a month. So the social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth by Michael J. Silverstein (MBA 1980), Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, and Rohan Sajdeb (McGraw-Hill Education) This book offers the latest techniques for knowing customers’ desires and View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
complete information about Africa,” Clarke says, “the ignorance will dissipate. I think the desire to engage with Africans becomes real.” Clarke launched the site in 2010, giving up the certainty and rewards of her position as a managing director of Goldman Sachs’s... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
the world, both for the better and for the more challenging,” says Lemmon, who wrote The Dressmaker while working at global investment management firm PIMCO. “I want to tell stories that have implications for the broader community, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Stealth Mogul
Sometimes it pays to be nearly invisible. Just ask Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983). He heads one of the most successful media and telecommunications investment firms you’ve probably never heard of — Providence Equity Partners. “My own mother... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
five and six at night before dinner. And always there, they did the right thing. I picked these things up. I felt this was the easier path, you know, being good, being, doing things right. Morrell: Which is funny because early on in life, you had View Details