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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
information, and savings. "An entire industry imploded," he asserted. "Now the industry is driven by the retail marketplace. And [online traders] are having fun." Indeed the "fun," or entertainment value, of e-commerce cannot be underestimated. "Even the front page of... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
face,” Matt Segneri (MBA 2010) told the Wall Street Journal this week. Segneri, who directs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, said the number of HBS grads getting into politics has spiked recently and includes members of both... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
write poetry, study Judaism, and do more pro bono work. I eventually had about forty poems published in literary journals and a book of poetry as well. After fourteen years of writing, I felt, “I’m done with that now.” As for my interest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Research Brief: A Path to Moral Management
impact on behavior, not just on legal accountability. “Teaching Versus Living: Managerial Decision Making in the Gray,” by Eugene Soltes, Journal of Management Education. View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. "It might seem obvious that legislation that either supports or challenges an industry would have predictable financial fallout for a state's firms engaged in that industry," says Cohen. "But... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of retail. He grew up in Newton,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Classroom Hijinks: Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
1985F, 1989A, and 2008J), to protest a professor’s behavior (see 1992C and 2000D), and to just have fun. But when pranks involved rivalry between sections, things could get out of hand. See the episode described under 1992D, which made the front page of the Wall Street... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
result in a special issue of the Journal of Accounting and Economics.” “It is critical for us to understand the relationships between our economic systems and the natural environment, and to figure out the leadership and governance... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
someone wakes up after falling asleep,” the Wall Street Journal reports. This can help inform decisions on how to shape a study—but ultimately the company’s goal is to make health care more preventive, Coravos says. View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
political climate in the United States today, do you think that democracy is in jeopardy? Rebecca Henderson: Yes, I think democracy is in trouble, and there are two key indicators. One is that in the United States, according to a 2019 NBC News/Wall Street View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
told the Boston Business Journal in 2009. Last spring, Wainwright Bank was sold to and merged with Eastern Bank, with Glassman continuing to serve as a director. Glassman’s values were shaped to a large extent in the crucible of the 1960s... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
published widely in academic and professional journals and contributed to several books. He was a consultant to many companies and served on committees of the National Research Council and as an advisor to the Congressional Office of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library
demand? Yes. At HBS today we have more than fifteen hundred users of the Wall Street Journal Interactive and close to two thousand users of OneSource Business Browser over the World Wide Web. At the same time we have seen a 38 percent... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
and performance of private firms; and long-run performance evaluation for newly public companies. He has written numerous journal articles and is the coauthor of The Venture Capital Cycle, published in 1999 by The MIT Press. Forest L.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
Journal as a “Best New Magazine of 2002.” Circulation today tops 40,000. And true to their original family-oriented goal, both work from home: Nelson from Mill Valley, California, and Phillips from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Growing the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
but brought back from the brink of bankruptcy by its current president David Green (MBA ’91). Explaining that a natural trachea is shaped by its “scaffold” (its framework of cartilage and muscle), the Wall Street Journal (July 8, 2011)... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, HBS assistant professor Charles King III investigates whether, indeed, cigarette companies advertise to magazine readers between the ages of 12 and 17. As King and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
interface with the securities markets, he is the coauthor or editor of seven books, including Wall Street and Regulation; Managing Financial Institutions; and Islamic Law and Finance. He has written numerous working papers and articles in View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
sector. “What Apple is great at is figuring out how to invent cool technology and making it wonderfully easy to use,” he told the Wall Street Journal in June 2004. By then, sales of its iPod, introduced in 2001, had nearly quadrupled over... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Strategy, among other works, and his latest book, Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims, and Organizational Forms, will be published this year by Harvard University Press. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Financial... View Details