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- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
to business schools as well as some of the tuition. The RFDF Exchange, an online platform that allows students to raise money for their respective educational pursuits, is a major component. “Each student is a stock with a starting price... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
"That's the report. Now, would anyone like to carp?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/ www.cartoonbank.com I am always interested in reading what the companies I own stock in have to say about themselves in their ritualistic... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
breathtaking Internet IPOs - the company's stock went from $17 to $95.50 on its first day of trading. "It's the first pure-play journalism IPO," Kramer told USA Today (January 26, 1999), adding that the wonders of the Web are such that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
manipulating stock prices. “The résumé and reputation I had built for myself at Oxford and Harvard had been reduced to dust,” Spier recounts in his new book, The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
company in 1979, Mixon had only $10,000 of the $7.8 million asking price. But he managed to raise the rest and led the company to annual revenues of $1.5 billion (those early investors have seen Invacare’s stock grow from 2¢ to $25 a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
from their income taxes. Third, the government should make sure that everyone buys health insurance, regulate health insurers to ensure honesty and financial stability, and monitor the quality of information, just as the SEC does for the View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
stock picker, Generation doesn’t artificially constrain its choices, and the performance of the firm at this time would suggest that its returns can be competitive with traditional global equity funds whose returns are tracked in relation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
United States,” notes Khanna. “Court systems, contract law, stock markets, accounting standards, and other elements that facilitate entrepreneurship and growth are often weak, archaic, or entirely missing in these economies.” Business... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
hard work and determination, Sheila Marcelo has built an enormously successful entrepreneurial venture that has helped millions of families manage their lives. Earlier this year, Marcelo rang the opening bell of the New York Stock... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
of incoming samples from our brand partners (P&G, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden), that our field team keeps our machines running and fully stocked with sample inventory, and that we are able to successfully launch and sustain each new market... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
could choose what type of company we would work for. He encouraged us to pick a company whose values we'd be proud of. Where the new economy is going I don't think there is a new economy — it's the same economy, the same consumers, the same View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
father would make us read through the annual reports of companies he had invested in, but that was an early influence: realizing I had an education and holidays because my parents complemented their income by investing in the Nigerian View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
Hellman takes a casual, often humorous view of his accomplishments. He’d rather talk about his love for bluegrass music than The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., an organization his firm made headlines with when it invested $240 million in it.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
by Gabriel Wisdom (OPM 26, 1998) (Wiley) Wisdom shows how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are strong but the “general wisdom” about the security has turned negative. Most promising are the stocks Wall Street has marked... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
years at the School. He has produced over one hundred articles and ten books on corporate governance, energy, and international business. Stobaugh's current work focuses on how boards of directors can improve their performance. His research was the first to link... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
approach is to hold the stock and try to change behavior. One of our students actually convened people from CalSTRS and 10 other investors on campus last May, and together they came up with a set of principles for a responsible firearms... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
meeting at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, to an education conference in Dubai, and to the University of Ghana, where he delivered a lecture on partnerships for success in Africa. The hectic pace and diverse agendas were not unusual for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
contrarian, the Harvard MBA Indicator is bullish on stocks for 2014 but bearish on the tech sector. If (only if) that turns out to be right, you read it here!" —Ray Soifer (MBA 1965), chairman, Soifer Consulting "The Twitter IPO is a sign... View Details