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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel appointed to monitor the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
graduated from Palo Alto High School and Stanford—but he helped shepherd in a new era. Considered one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, he founded Draper and Johnson in 1962 , with his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954), and Asset... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
off-balance sheet partnerships that purchased assets from Enron. And it failed to see and react to many “red flags” indicating that Enron’s economic performance and its public commitment to ethical values were deteriorating. To deter... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
up a balance sheet of my personal assets and liabilities,” says Cooper. “I had been successful in two professions—nuclear submarines and investment banking—in which success required a combination of technical and interpersonal skills. I... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Victory Lap: Frazier, Olympics COO, Reviews the Games
A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG), was featured in a June 1996 Bulletin article about the Olympics. Now a partner at Invesco, an Atlanta-based investment management firm that manages some $90 billion in View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
explains, "the 1980s were very challenging times for the U.S. textile industry. They enabled us to see clearly which companies did smart things in response to adverse conditions and which did not." Coding this information for ownership type and gauging performance by... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Chris Lederer, argues that marketers and CEOs urgently need tools to manage vast groups of brands — not as individual elements or collections under one corporate roof but as complex systems that transcend corporate boundaries. The Infinite View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
employs an enviable tactic: "I eat," he laughs. "I'm always nibbling and testing - my favorite is our chocolate-chunk cookie." No Typical Days An excellent set of taste buds is one obvious asset in the food business, but other qualities... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
management-labor relations with rising unemployment. Government's role in education, technology, and Hong Kong's competiveness is being reassessed. And the emphasis has shifted from asset inflation to deflation. The focus in Hong Kong now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than capital investment for high... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
the budget, and the people needed to have a coherent and consistent vision,” says Genta. Another key asset is the country’s cohesiveness as noted by Prince Albert when he established the Extended Monaco, Smart Principality program that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
hockey. One of his Frozen Assets teammates, who met him on the ice some 50 years ago, says McNerney remains the player who makes other people better. He sets them up for a shot and passes the puck at the right moment—sacrificing his own... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
skill in assembling stakeholders who can survive the loss of the assets they contribute if the worst happens. 7. Learning to lead requires a lifelong effort. Most entrepreneurs aspire to grow their small start-ups into large ventures, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
start exposing people at a much earlier age about asset management and private equity and why it's a good industry so that you can attract more people to the industry. Chitra: But even when you think about senior levels within private... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to allocate significant View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
recruit from HBS. Peers, professors, and the alumni network are incredible assets in the career exploration process.” Can you finish this statement? “My HBS experience was ” “ life-changing. I know that may sound dramatic, but I do... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
is really to simplify everything. One of my bosses founded probably one of the most successful investment companies in the world based in China, growing from $30 million in assets to $25 billion in 11 years largely through organic... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
side. I ended up being an accounting major.” Jones worked for a year after graduation for Anderson Consulting (now Accenture) before heading to Harvard Law School. “I never planned to be in business long-term, but I looked at it as an View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley