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01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

partners took to NetJets was a new concept — membership cards giving customers 25 hours of flight time for $109,000 and up. Functioning primarily as a sales and marketing organization, Marquis Jet needed to ink a partnership with NetJets... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 May 2016
Blog Post

5 Facts about Clubs at HBS

Capital & Private Equity, Social Enterprise) many clubs are smaller and cater to distinct interests or affiliations (e.g. Aviation & Aerospace, Midwest Students Association). Check out the full list of clubs here. And if you have... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

so sure. As she put it, "I am cautious (about the) question (of) too much focus." As good leaders, she added, we need to be aware of the environment to develop awareness to create a spectrum of realities or possibilities.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

code can be useful for other programming tasks in the future," and so on. In open source, a programmer is his or her own boss and can take full responsibility for the success or failure of a task. Programmers in typical commercial projects, by contrast, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

company’s competitiveness after the downturn ends? For the last five years, we have been studying layoffs and their alternatives. Our goal with this research is to help leaders understand when it makes sense for companies to use layoffs to address their View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault

increased, Kenneth and Kevin saw that the reach of the Anti-Racism Fund had grown well beyond their networks and that there was something there they could harness to propel their efforts forward. Next steps would be to turn this fundraiser into a sustainable... View Details

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

to recognize leadership qualities in themselves? It's about leadership in ideas, in actions. "There are some that can see it in themselves; there are some that need to be informed," says Narayandas. "Talent View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

last spring led by Andreessen Horowitz, and $17 million was pumped into civic social-networking app MindMixer last fall. Doesn't Need To Be Perfect Governments could attract even more capital by examining... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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John H. McArthur | About

Springs Industries, Inc., Telsat Canada, Bell Canada, and Teradyne Inc. He was a founding board member of the Canada Development Investment Corporation and a member of the Task Force on the Future of the Canadian Financial Services... View Details

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

apart old electronics to learn what makes them tick. Green technologies - solar, batteries, motors - captured his imagination early on. “I’d spend weekends and summers sifting through old toys and electronics in the house to find the parts I View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

talk less about how we can encourage positive spillovers." Creating virtuous cycles like FOSS involves rewiring existing market inefficiencies, which produce too many negative side effects and too few positive ones, Nagle says. It’s an especially good time to provide... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

19 Apr 2024
News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

four years ago,” he says. “Energy transition is going to be a long-term, expensive process. AI is going to drive a lot of demand for electricity so there’s more need for generation and distribution capabilities.” But, Horn adds, energy... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Profile

Sebastian Velasco

M&A, capital raising and debt issuance, "basically, the other side of what my mother had been doing." Extending deep connections An MBA had long been in Sebastian's plans. HBS was his top choice because of his undergraduate... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving local View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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US Business Immigration Overview - Alumni

Careers US Business Immigration Overview Careers US Business Immigration Overview Looking to work in the United States? We know that it can often be tricky to figure out the requirements needed to secure work authorization. Below we have... View Details

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

organizations in Latin America and Spain. For good governance you need some degree of overlap between governance and management.— Ezequiel A. Reficco This research will be published in Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Are You Supporting Your B Players?

to for lifestyle reasons. There are others who aren't ever going to be stars, "which is fine," said DeLong. Unlike A players, B players are often more secure in their objectives and know where they want to go. They need less... View Details