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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
together.” As equal partners, each had to come up with $14,000 to satisfy Charterhouse. This is where Rogers’ Porsche came into play. Incredibly, its Blue Book value was exactly $14,000, so Rogers sold it to the company, used the proceeds... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
presentation and said, "Ray, looks to me like the numbers on page three are different to page seven, and different to page 17." And he said, so help us understand that. I said, well, I think that should be right. He said, no, no, no. I've... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
meetings with representatives of firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Summit Partners, and Pacific Venture Group. "At Pacific Venture," says Weil, "Managing Partner John S. Lewis (MBA '74) had just raised a new $100-million fund focused on... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
increasing complexity that today¹s managers face, Defining Moments provides examples, action steps, and a flexible framework that managers at all levels can use to make the choices that will shape not only their careers but their... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
more important to heed the lessons of failure.” My key lesson was to view this failure as the beginning of a new journey and use it as a foundation for future success. Although my brokerage business was a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
nonrational part is when somebody offers us evidence of a mistake and we don't say, 'Oh my goodness! Thank you so much!'" Jensen argued that "what learning is about, at its very core, is finding out when we're making an error." Thus, an... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
moisture than the pin-straight variety—can get to a customer in days instead of the industry-standard weeks. The company has also structured its inbound logistics around the goal of driving fewer miles. “Those things have enabled us to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
enrolled in US colleges and universities. The Question: Confi’s online health resource is marketed directly to students, but the go-to-market strategy for its sexual assault prevention program is less clear. How can Confi break into the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
related merchandising licenses for toys and other consumer products. The first Marvel-produced theatrical release (Captain America is a likely subject) is scheduled to appear in summer 2008. Marvel, based in New York, with offices in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
professional and personal involvement as they embark on their post-MBA careers. Aaron Rudenstine (MBA ’09) New York, NY Curbing Corruption I highly commend the editor for publishing “Show Me the Money” and “M.I.A. Boards” in the June... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
use over engineering-driven solutions in the consumer-software space and showed that simplicity trumped bells and whistles, an important lesson for subsequent entrepreneurs in those early days of the computer and software revolutions.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
sale to Rovi Corporation. In 2011, the pair created Accanto Partners to provide seed funding to promising new startups, including Catalant Technologies Inc. (formerly HourlyNerd), which was conceived as a FIELD project and incubated at... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
of it as a place for cats playing the piano. But I gave it a shot, and the videos took on a life of their own.” The plunge: “Soon, tens of thousands of people were using the videos every month. In 2009, I left my job and set up Khan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
For years, money given to nonprofits has been thought of as charity, says Jed Emerson, the School's Bloomberg Senior Research Fellow in Philanthropy. But a new perspective is emerging: These dollars, while charitable, are still capital... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
in new and emerging businesses, even if our returns were subject to the same rates as our earned income? Alas, I can find no way to justify my good-fortune tax rate. I reluctantly conclude that the few of us... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President Obama proposed $100 million in his... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
left each meeting feeling like a better person,” Letelier recalls. Letelier launched SITAWI Finance for Good in 2008 to recapture that feeling—and to introduce new financial tools into Brazil’s nonprofit and impact sectors. “If you think... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
Realizing that this window of opportunity might never occur again, she made a New Year’s resolution to hammer out 1,000 words a day until a novel emerged. Wang then accomplished the rare feat of landing a major book deal with her first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
father taught us we should make a contribution in some way and that responsibility comes along with success." At The Partnership since 1991, Wiley leads an organization that helps minorities gain access to the city's corporate power... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner