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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Company. In 1969, the company brought out the Duraflame firelog, made from the sawdust created by mill-ing cedar slats to make pencils. Work, Love, Pray: Practical Wisdom for Young Professional Christian Women by Diane Paddison (MBA ’85)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return, seeks to redeem the oft-maligned finance industry. Desai argues that “viewing finance through the prism... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
“A Unique Leadership Experience”
his mission ends in May. The GMP program, was “the best commander training I had,” he told the assembled crowd from some 220 miles above the Earth. Behind Virts, the sun reflected off the space station’s solar arrays, visible through two... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
"Build it and they will come," announced Donald Hastings (MBA '53), chair of the HBS Global Alumni Conference held May 15-18 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. Greeting a record-breaking crowd View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
In March, Louis Gerstner (MBA '65), IBM's CEO since 1993, stepped down after achieving a remarkable turnaround at Big Blue. Gerstner, who lacked any previous experience in the computer industry, frequently defied conventional management View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
upsetting the West's conventional wisdom about the reasons for Japan's success, Porter and his coauthors emphasize that Japanese practices such as total quality and continuous improvement were valuable additions to U.S. industry. But, as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
The Mind Speaks, Marketers Listen
Calling HBS professor Gerald Zaltman “a maverick marketing professor,” the New York Times reported on the interactive technique he developed to gauge consumer preferences using visual images, semiotics, and neuroscience. “While the conventional View Details
- 24 Apr 2019
- News
And the Winner Is…
$75,000. Claiming both the alumni grand prize and crowd favorite awards was Blueland, which is “(t)aking the weight and waste out of your everyday products” through reusable bottles and concentrated cleaning... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
television markets but will hold their games in intimate, spectator-friendly venues. This strategy should produce the revenues and crowds (per-game target: 2,500 fans) to meet initial break-even projections. The league will draw on a fan... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
innovative endeavors place a high priority on the recruitment and support of a dedicated, world-class faculty. We are competing for talent in a crowded job market, and we must continue to make a significant... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
None of us knew anything about retailing or luxury brands. Walt guided us with a blend of wisdom and humor, like an academic Woody Allen. And he loved to write in a hammer-like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
to put the study rooms in the library instead of Spangler, and how many seats to put in the auditorium.” Ultimately, Spangler got 29 study rooms and a 350-seat auditorium. Essential Spangler: Warm weather always draws a View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
teacher and gentle man, he was always eager to share his insights and wisdom with students and colleagues alike. A mentor to many members of our faculty, Ray inspired us all with the extraordinary quality... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
question the wisdom of using its own stock to hedge merchant investments rather than contracts with bona fide counterparties. It failed to monitor the conflicts of interest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Major miss. From that experience I learned to trust my gut more on the role people play in the success of a startup. Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009) Ubiquity Ventures Lessons from the Fall It was the summer after my HBS graduation when we first... View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
historian Johan Huizinga offers wisdom for our own autumn (many years hence, blessedly): "The things that can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
and execution. Is that approach contrary to the conventional wisdom that you build businesses by building relationships? Absolutely not. I have over 5,000 contacts in my database. One of the reasons I’ve... View Details