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- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
keep the faculty engaged in something that is interesting and important.” McArthur’s influence outside of HBS is also significant, focusing on large-scale institutional reorganization. In the 1970s he served as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
factory, and it was here that he became fascinated with mechanics and factory operations. With experience in the automobile industry, Georges was chosen to serve as an engineering officer in the French heavy... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Robert T. Thakor Abstract—Financial institutions have both investors and customers. Investors, such as those who invest in stocks and bonds or private/public-sector guarantors of institutions, expect View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
jobs and dignified salaries. As of March 2010, La Fageda has opened up a new production facility to make ice cream in an urban area outside of its well-known agricultural farm. Students are faced with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Career Outcomes | Research Associates
RAs work proactively and independently while collaborating with leading experts, honing their abilities to manage projects and think critically about complex problems. Because these skills are required across industries, working as View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Sovereignty by Louis T. Wells and Rafiq Ahmed (Oxford University Press) In the 1990s, firms from rich countries invested in projects in the developing world, but soon disputes arose. As projects soured, some... View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
Advertising media in antebellum America paved the way for all that followed—from magazine ads and giant billboards to television campaigns and internet marketing—and forever changed the nation’s consumer consciousness as the United States... View Details
Steve Cagnetta
Steve Cagnetta is a co-founder and Principal of Company Counsel, LLC, an out-sourced general counsel firm focused on representing emerging companies. He has spent the past 20+ years advising entrepreneurs and startups on the business and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
just kind of look at all this,” says Mawilmada. “I like to imagine what it might be when I’m an old man.” His tone is a bit dreamy, but there’s an underlying current of urgency View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
inadequate and costly telecommunications, income and education disparities, and corruption. Add to that a history of political and economic volatility and one begins to understand that entrepreneurship is as much a required tool of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
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Andrew Dervan
Weekend he attended, Andrew was impressed by the scope and depth of the School's Healthcare Initiative and by the quality of the MBA students. "You have the most to learn from the people who are most different from you," says... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of... View Details
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Scott Wu
places that aren’t on most people’s vacation lists. “My wife often jokes that every vacation we’ve taken since we first met involves visiting an orphanage or refugee camp,” says Wu, who is driven by a desire to help others just 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
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School, including an extensive collection of student reports from the Manufacturing course. This collection also contains documents from Doriot's involvement with American Research and Development (ARD), including his... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
skilled workforce, an educated populace, vibrant local suppliers, basic rule of law, and so on. Historically, American businesses invested in these resources deeply, and that helped to build many of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
companies in Beijing alone. Is there an investment bubble in China? Yes, so our job is to manage, as best we can, through the bubbles. Today in China, there is simply too much... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
out an application in minutes, and get an answer the same day and money in their bank account the next day, they flocked to the new lenders. Some issues arose quickly, though, such View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine
accusations of price gouging and calls for generic alternatives. The few big companies still investing in vaccines saw their fortunes take an upward turn in the mid-2010s, as... View Details