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- 13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an approach he says that is both a View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
for 10 years, taking over as CEO in 2011. Match has a three-pronged approach: it runs a system of six public charter schools, manages its own master's degree-granting graduate school of education, and operates a publishing arm that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
employment were dim after decades of making madeleines in one of Caen’s last factories, a building that had survived two world wars. The occupation was widely covered in the French media, with public sentiment favoring the no-nonsense... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Seth Klarman on the Critical Value of the Long View
In a recent interview with the New Yorker, Seth Klarman (MBA 1982), CEO of the Baupost Group, spoke about the perilous state of the public perception of capitalism. “People will say the words ‘Wall Street’ with a derogatory tone. They’re... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
longer cyclical. The Internet is a big deal, but it's not world-changing. It's another improvement, like the PC was. I have never been more optimistic than I am today about the future of technology. Advice for current MBAs It is a marathon. Don't flip out because the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
path toward peace and sustainable change than just a good business idea. “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” Making things that move was in his DNA. His... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Light noted. The current crisis, he continued, inevitably will lead to “an entirely new financial system with a new set of regulators, a new set of regulations, and frankly, a new set of firms quite unlike what we’ve seen before. These tasks will require capital and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
had to be. Look at me.” I didn’t do that when I first started out, but some comedians told me you have to be who you are. I was good at public speaking, and I loved stand-up, so I entered a contest for the... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
events. "In America and around the world, the public has lost trust in business," says Hess. "Business and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
ALS is a good investment for them, the market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do in decades.” Using a prize model, Prize4Life essentially “pays for results,” says Kremer’s friend, classmate, and board member... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
colors, patterns, swatches of fabric, and garment samples assembled to plan Old Navy’s fall 2005 clothing lines. Ross, casually dressed in a style reflective of Old Navy’s “democratic” approach to fashion, notes that such public displays... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
“We know the industry is changing and we need to become very good global thinkers. The risk of not acting is even bigger.” After kicking the case around, talk turned to the pending role play and the best ways to make it a valuable... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. In 1985, the overvalued dollar was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
members dependent on the person they’re supposed to supervise for compensation, information, perks, committee assignments, and, often, their very presence at the table. More Regulations Not the Answer America’s most successful investor, Warren Buffett, has long been a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
much time apart, and, two, this is not the life that we had imagined for ourselves in terms of having a really good partnership and thinking about starting a family,” Gordon says. Gordon’s deep network allows her to provide clients with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
grown from $100 million to $800 million, and the company went public in March 2024 at a valuation of $6.5 billion. In this special edition of Skydeck Live, recorded at spring reunions, Wong sits down with classmate and FOMO Sapiens... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the remotest corners of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
find a strategy that honors the company's values and also works in the particular environment. In another series of cases detailing the pressures of competing values systems, Paine writes about the Haier Group, a Chinese refrigerator and white View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
Environmental Management, Associate Professor Forest Reinhardt argues that managers should treat environmental management as an integral part of corporate strategy rather than merely as an exercise in public relations. "Social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
(MBA 1950). “I learned a lot at Preco,” says Stevenson, who spent four years at the company. “Meeting payrolls, dealing with unions, learning accounting, all in a less-than-glamorous environment — it was a good education.” As Stevenson... View Details