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14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United States, a View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

was one of the first days of his tenure, and already novice HBS Dean John McArthur was facing a group of fired-up students with a bone to pick. Where, the students wanted to know, was the Starting New Ventures course, listed right there... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

The price was five times our investment: It had been eight years, a little longer hold than we would have liked, but a very good outcome nonetheless. The CEO would continue to run the company and signed up for a whole new equity package;... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

and an oratorical competition, and she assigned homework, and she said, "Everybody's got to write a speech." And the topic was, "I'm the mayor now, and this is my new plan." At 11, I had never written a speech. I don't think I'd ever... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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MBA vs. MBA

street, even along the winding country road that leads to the Bush ranch, the “Western White House,” you see campaign signs touting the reelection of Democrat Chet Edwards (MBA ’81). He’s an eight-term congressman representing the 17th... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

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