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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked up an enviable 20... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
addition to product information such as price, running time, and year of release, reviewers provide a concise discussion of each program and offer recommendations for its appropriate audience and most effective usage. Easy-to-read sidebars accompany each review, View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at HBS. "In terms of the View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
serves as the epicenter of all contacts and communications between the club and local alumni. Today, with 275 members — its highest membership rate ever — the HBS Club of Puget Sound is flourishing. One of its most popular events, the... View Details
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
several years later, she negotiated in helicopter training. She now holds a dual commercial rating for both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. Eaton took command of Bell's sales in the US's Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, but always... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Trouble in Mouse Land
governance ratings published by magazines and various shareholder groups in order to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of different governance measures.” The goal? To push students to consider what measurable principles of good... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
recession, when high unemployment rates lessened the demand for traveling nurses to answer the short-term staffing needs of hospitals around the country. “I call that part ‘hanging off the cliff,’” Moreno notes. With the implementation of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Meanwhile, birth rates declined, and children had less interest in toys that didn't offer instant gratification. Serious jolts were also taking place in the LEGO Group. Kjeld, out of the office for a year following a serious illness in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
GE's Jeff Immelt
discussion. Even so, he continued, it's good to keep the situation in perspective. When he graduated in the early 1980s, unemployment was around 12 percent, inflation was close to 15 percent, and interest rates were in double digits. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
and banks that had nearly collapsed have been cleaned up and are once again fueling the economy. In late 2023, Greece’s credit rating was bumped from junk to investment grade for the first time since 2010, signaling to foreign investors... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
also need is to have somebody to tell me I'm worth something.' Ex-welfare recipients have a higher retention rate than regular hires. At United, we match each one with a mentor; it's worked so well, we're thinking of providing mentors to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
interest rates and all the transactional features of a checking account, in addition to a compelling impact story. “The opportunity for you is to put your money where it’s being utilized in a really productive way from an ecological,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed, over the last 25 years, the accounting rate of return on inbound FDI to the United States has averaged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
call is complete, peers are asked to rate and comment on the response. Also included is an interactive polling function, a "flash group" tool to facilitate online discussion, and a "3 strikes" tool where students respond to a question... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
because overcharging absorbs the interest rate subsidy. Anyway, the true shortfall is closer to $100 than $36 billion - and that’s before dealing with inherited debt. It would be ironic if an Anglo-American invasion led to early repayment... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
that the rate of change in terms of content of work has been accelerating, and the capacity of the traditional skill system—K–12, college, and other degree-granting institutions—hasn’t moved at the pace of technology or business... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And given current rates of production and consumption—1 million... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
world.” She added that the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab is a BSL-1 rated facility, which means that teams will work with materials that pose no danger to anyone outside the lab. The Life Lab will also play an important role in Harvard’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
trajectory, The threat is to any company in the industry: If someone else is improving at a faster rate than me, even if I’m better than them today, I won’t be better than them tomorrow.” The company acquired gaming studio Activision... View Details