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- 01 Mar 2011
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The Path to Economic Revival
or intermediate term, to outsource production to an overseas supplier. The company can buy manufacturing services at a much lower rate if it goes to China or elsewhere, depending on the industry. But if everybody is doing that, you get a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Princeton University, 1941 A.B., History "Broaden your business education as much as possible through courses and real-life experiences. This will prepare you for your role as a general manager. Over time, you will also develop a focus on what area of business View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
HBSAB Board Member John Carrier (MBA 2000). “This is a topic that many of our members are very interested in,” he says. “It was such a great case and everyone engaged with it.” HBSAB President David Harris (MBA 1984) adds that engaging... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
positions—the supervisors, sales representatives, data analysts, and production managers, for example—tend to be less engaged in their work, have higher rates of turnover, and have lower levels of productivity, according to Fuller’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
long-term decisions I could.” A room-filling presence, from his broad-shouldered frame to his toothy grin and exuberant eyebrows, Draper embraces feats of physicality. Video clips show the 57-year-old dancing wildly to Pharrell Williams’s “Happy” or publicly performing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
areas of the economy where there has been "quiet, unheralded change." "The advent of the microprocessor in the early 1980s was more the kind of quiet change that an entrepreneur should keep his or her eye out for," he says. "I'd argue that the View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
multistrategy firm focused on investment in the entertainment and media space, says that when interest rates are as low as they were for the last decade, “investors start looking for places to pick up... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
designing it for the future.” How has technology reshaped the business landscape in the 21st century? Karim R. Lakhani: Over the last 20 years, we have entered an era where the rate of improvement in these digital technologies is growing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
community can also use workstations in this area to access research tools, including Bloomberg, Thomson StreetEvents, and S&P Ratings Direct. For those who would rather read a newspaper than power up a laptop, there are nineteen... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
that is the difference between two very interesting and very important numbers: how much money the government spends and how much it collects in taxes. Those are both important numbers. The difference between the two of them is not... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
South Africa Conference Preview
special interest tours - to big game reserves, bird sanctuaries, and golf resorts, for example - are also being planned. "Sub-Saharan Africa has been growing for the last seven years at a rate of 4 to 5... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
United States indicate that by age nine, African American and Hispanic students are 20 to 30 points below proficient cut off scores in math and reading. The high-school graduation rate in the 50 largest US cities is about 53 percent.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
some lines. I don’t think we want to set up, as other countries have, what amounts to a central authority that looks at everybody’s choices. But we need to look at the extremes and whether there are some practices we just don’t want to allow. For example, there’s not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Bagley: Legal literacy should be a priority for managers. In her new book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (HBS Press), Associate Professor Constance E. Bagley contends that managers... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
explains, “Intel and a number of other exciting companies were just getting started, so there was considerable interest in smaller businesses. I wanted to be part of that ferment, and the risk involved made... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
situation of being able to characterize their income separately depending on the audience. Something as simple as interest expense can be engineered to be an expense for tax authorities and a dividend for capital markets. This confusing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
McCray, who sees herself as an agent of change, was most interested in policy solutions. When one classmate proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concern about overlooking those who don’t... View Details