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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
experience and informed perspectives to the study and practice of leadership at HBS. Through ongoing financial support and engagement, alumni are contributing to our shared ambition to make this world one in which people can improve their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
It’s a problem that is “capitalism’s Achilles heel,” declares Raymond Baker (MBA ’60), executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based organization Global Financial Integrity (GFI). This month at the G20 conference in Canada, Baker will... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
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Front-Row Seat
to determine predictors of expropriation, Bradley brought his results to Wells and began to give an overview of factors that might indicate a property was more likely to be seized. “He listened for a minute, then stopped me and said,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting the Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes beyond the wish to reap financial rewards from years of investment. Steve... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Lincoln Electric Company, from the brink of financial ruin to record sales and profits. The book is full of out-of-the-box ideas, shrewd business wisdom, and unorthodox techniques. As Hastings stated, “I didn’t write this book to teach... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
quickly and without the kind of massive financial investment a major automaker would require. It was nothing less than a complete rethink of how cars are made. The next year, DARPA called, looking for a way to apply the model to defense... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
impact-weighted numbers would complete the picture of a company’s impacts alongside its financial value creation. To get there, the IWA Project has been building a large-scale data set to get a baseline for what impact looks like in a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
focused on the phenomenon of bankruptcy. A consultant to or board member of numerous corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies over the years, Hayes expressed his aversion to Chapter 11 proceedings for companies trying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home
experience in running a nonprofit, but they did have a lot of experience in actually helping people. "We needed to prove what we were doing was having an impact," says Marriner. As a result of attending SPNM, Marriner helped Roadtrip... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
article about Ted Levitt. I personally felt a special connection to him, perhaps as a result of our shared immigrant roots. We argued at length the concept that America was moving away from the melting-pot tradition he so much believed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
services, and reassessing the templates for Executive Education and MBA reunions. Committee members made significant progress during the year, and their efforts resulted in new lifelong learning programs tied to reunions, a commitment to... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
network. HBS’s 87,000-plus alumni serve as change makers and an important resource for students. Early in the pandemic, the CPD team made an appeal to alumni and recruiting partners that resulted in nearly 1,000 new full-time and... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Dallas, and Detroit.) When Lopez became the company's fourth CEO, succeeding Peter Brown in 2009, the company had seen some rough years. "In the early 2000s, the industry had a brush with death," Lopez recalls. "The result was a very... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
action,” she adds. Of course, many alums will continue to follow the more traditional path of doing well professionally before taking up social entrepreneurship in later life. A generation of economic prosperity has made it possible for an increasing number of View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses, created hundreds of jobs, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
compete against Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, and BP Amoco. In fact, these three "supermajors," with 1999 revenues of approximately $161 billion, $105 billion, and $83 billion, respectively, are themselves the result of recent... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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The Golden Thread
show cause and effect—but only by asking her subjects to engage in highly stylized activities within highly controlled conditions. The results “told me not much at all about people’s motivations, emotions, and creativity in their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
Gompers found that the gender of male venture capital partners’ children had an effect on hiring; parenting more daughters led to hiring more women partners. He posits that this shift in hiring was the result of the “true removal of... View Details