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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
however, the economics major decided to try an internship in investment banking, courtesy of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, a mentoring program for minority students. “I fell in love with Wall Street and the idea of taking on an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
build. The third option is a hybrid approach, where Mobley fine-tunes the brand and product and at the same time starts that B2B2C channel in an effort to leverage both. Which route should they pursue: D2C, B2B2C, or both? The Answers: I would do both. Ramírez mentions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
top of the curve, the learnings are humility and a sense of proportion. Because the thing you know is you’re coming down. At the bottom of the curve, what you know is it will turn again.” Long-Term Investment “If you can get people to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
with the foster kids there reinforced for me the power of coaching as a platform for teaching positive values and life skills, all while being involved in a game I love. A few years later, I began volunteer coaching the Illinois Warriors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
ball forward every day." Culture "Too many founders get caught up in raising money or getting a product to market, while neglecting culture and cofounder relationships, which are integral to a startup's longevity." Foundation "It's worth it to View Details
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
priorities for the School take shape, alumni generosity—through both the HBS Fund and catalytic investment in key initiatives—will be instrumental in advancing our ambitious agenda. For example: an exploration of how digital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
and interviews with 91 American media members, this book discusses journalistic values in the digital age, taking a hard look at the ethical challenges of the job while offering hope for the ways journalism can make a difference in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
chosen a leader from outside its ranks in its century-long history in the United States. Recruited from Becton Dickinson, a maker of medical devices, he was an outsider not only to Merck, but to "Big Pharma" as well. "Members of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
bowing out of certain faculty meetings in which he no longer felt that he was adding value (and where it was socially acceptable to do so). He also stepped down from the editorial boards of four prestigious academic journals and, with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
paper as you can get." Participants ready to launch new ventures added skills to their entrepreneurial tool kits in an interactive seminar presented by HBS professor Myra M. Hart, while others heard about international investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
motivated him and his wife Patricia to make an ongoing investment in HBS’s global efforts through their support of the HBS Fund, the School’s research outposts, and an endowed fellowship for international students. The View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
boy, Bill Donaldson went on to cofound the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. After fourteen years there, he began to take on a series of other leadership challenges in business, government, and academia. Most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
year, one of our competitors bred over 180 mares to several of his stallions. We have a customer base that comes to us because we limit our books, creating some scarcity value that appeals to the people willing to pay to get these... View Details