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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
gaining access to venture capital, the benefits of acquiring and transforming existing businesses, the challenges of leading diverse organizations, and the successful management of community-based ventures. Several alumni participated on... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is... View Details
- 09 Feb 2011
- News
Still Shining through Florida's Clouds
developer of planned communities in the Ft. Myers-Naples area. Despite tough going for his firm, “Lucas’s reputation in business circles remains untarnished” and “few people are as influential” in southwest Florida, according to the Gulf... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly plan of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised the investment world by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers, broadband Internet access, cell... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
is committed to engaging parents through parent coaches and parent discussion groups. This year a second school will open in Hayward, California, but Liu is perhaps even more excited that plans are now under way to pilot the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Minds," a venture fund launched by two HBS grads, as well as a case written by Roberts about a medical devices company. Of the cases they identify, CRC staff plan to write about ten each year, but much of their time will be spent laying... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)
Yes. Students with higher SAT scores do better in college, particularly in their first year. I expect that the kids I interviewed will all be successful in their chosen careers. I plan to follow their... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
to support their career growth during and after the fellowship. The agency also has launched a leadership development program, Managing for Success, which helps nonprofits support their rising managers through assessments, workshops, and mentoring. View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
China. “I have no regrets,” he adds, “because I learned so much from that experience.” Now working in strategic planning for Philip Morris International’s China operations, Klump is part of a small management team whose eleven members... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Online Job Bank Debuts
leveraging the success of the MBA Job Bank upon which it is modeled. “Technology has greatly enhanced the benefits to both job seekers and employers, as searches can now be made by industry, function, location, salary, and several other... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Wide Screen Approach
platforms at once. “Nobody had streamed a service at that scale before,” says Wilson. “We were holding our breath, because we were basically betting our business that this was going to be a successful pivot.” It felt like a sharp turn not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS
financial services organization to one of the country's most successful investment banking firms. Chalsty plans to be in attendance at the March Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town. He will serve on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Curb Your Overconfidence
Other Tips Learn to embrace uncertainty, and you’ll be more willing to propose and accept the type of compromise that leads to mutually beneficial agreements. Seek out an objective critique of your plans from a third party, whether a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and fears. Tantalizing possibilities spur us to innovate and explore. Yet, we also strive to reduce uncertainty. Mountain climbers and deep-sea divers plan carefully. Rules, routines, and research in business, the law, and medicine are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
seriously rough spring, where I wondered if we were going to make it, we might end up overall better for the year than I’d planned back in February,” Ford says. Ranch Road Boots is just one example of the companies, both small and large,... View Details