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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
dating back to the 18th century, is not up to 21st-century demands, for investors or for directors themselves. Ideas for Fundamental Reforms Boards are not going to disappear. Nor, despite their many flaws, should they. They remain the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
receive training, help facilitate the conversation, and participants represent a diverse range of ages, industries, and career stages. Circles are managed by volunteers, and each region has a leadership committee. “Advice from members of my Circle group has View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
whose work has had a major impact on modern financial markets." "We are enormously proud that Bob Merton has received this honor," noted HBS Dean Kim B. Clark. "He has made and continues to make fundamental contributions to finance and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
experienced," says Smith. "It's important to establish the fundamentals of general management early in one's career, but sometimes there aren't any precedents to follow. You're simply trying to meet challenges on a day-to-day basis."... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
With Dean Clark and former Dean McArthur present, along with some fifty current and former faculty members, two back-to-back sessions at the McArthur symposium under-scored differing views within the HBS community on some fundamental... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
of information that makes recent technological innovations seem measured by comparison. Television, computers, and the Internet would later continue this tradition of information as a driver of the country’s social, economic, and political evolution. View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Research. “It’s intrinsically satisfying to be at the rock face of a change like that, trying to sort out what is going to happen.” “The fundamental shift in expectation that you can access any type of content, any time, on any screen is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
fundamental issues.” —Àlvaro Rodríguez-Arregui (MBA 1995) After founding a microfinance investment fund called the Dignity Fund in 2005 with Elizabeth Collet Funk (MBA 1996), she started Elevar in 2008, widening the investment scope to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
capitalism.” “From the ’70s to the late ’80s, real estate was fundamentally driven by entrepreneurs with private capital sources,” says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
look, I decided that something here is interesting—and probably sustainable. Bitcoin feels increasingly mainstream. What’s behind the lingering skepticism? I think the question is whether there is a fundamental use case. If somebody can... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
mistakes that doom individual investors to market underperformance. Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions by Joshua Rosenbaum (MBA ’01) and Joshua Pearl (Wiley) As the world of finance returns to the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
management training to the people who are actually going to implement that change. It requires a fundamentally different approach in the day-to-day work, which is something the sector needs badly. View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
here. The most obvious answer is that we must fundamentally change the system. The predictable surprise that helps create all the other predictable surprises is the destructive force of special-interest groups in this country. I am a... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
phone, you can't really do anything. Right? “So those are some of the fundamentals that you have to give. Apart from that, you have to train them in basic life skills. You will see a lot of people just leave their work, for example, if... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
drive a decision to offer two sessions of a more traditional, case-based ESM course in fall 2016 to provide fundamentals in preparation for the field-based course. “The startup dilemmas students will debate during case discussions in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
and rewards will come from leading transformation,” he told the audience. “Be somebody who brings about fundamental change in an institution. Do not be satisfied with managing, with continuing, with extending. Go for transformation — it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
level, a child is a luxury item: Those who can afford it will get it, and those who can’t will not. That’s fine when we’re talking about diamonds, but the concern here is that when it comes to children, we need to think differently. If the desire to reproduce is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
many clients haven't lived through anything like this — and neither have most money managers. It's painful to each of us. But it drives you back to a fundamental analysis: What is the purpose of my portfolio? What am I trying to encompass... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
were all over the map. There were plenty of examples of time pressure spawning creative thinking — Apollo 13, for instance — but there were also many occasions where not having enough time squelched creative thoughts. Given that creative thinking is a View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Restoring Order
founded the investment firm that bears their names, has chaired the New York Stock Exchange; served as chairman and CEO of Aetna; and was the founding dean of the Yale School of Management. While noting the fundamental soundness and... View Details