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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
which is pathetic.” But as employment numbers rebound, the shecession highlights more perennial, far-reaching factors than those found in the pandemic’s early months, says Manisha Thakor (MBA 1997). One is the ever-present gender pay gap: “Roughly View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
offerings. A typical new player, for example, might spend over $100 million in advertising. "There is a big rush for market share," explains Crane. "Firms are gambling that when the dust settles, they will be one of the survivors." F.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
calculation also comes into play. Ferguson faulted widely used mathematical risk models for failure to build in historical data reaching back more than five years. “The problem with only five years of data... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
hire ex-convicts. And so after their apprenticeships almost all of them are placed in jobs. And after a year and a half or two, these women come out and they are productive citizens rather than people who have been in jail for two for two or 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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
valuable contributions from Nasdaq and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, plus access to the online valuation models and course. The Little Book of Investing Like the Pros: Five Steps for Picking Stocks (Little Books. View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
of ironclad deadlines and word length. The result was a classic love-hate relationship. “While in the MBA Program, students tend to dislike report writing,” the Bulletin noted in 1978. “As alumni five or more years out of the School, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
vacuum, sweep, or dust. Five women and one man array their mats around a rose quartz sphere. “Dedicate your practice to a prayer in your life,” he tells them. “Ideally, one of personal transformation.” It’s a traditional approach that... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
RR: So, it’s a big gift basket company! RK: Yes. It’s a gift basket company. RR: What a weird company. Sorry. I mean, the idea that there’s going to be a company that actually just does gift baskets. RK: Yeah, not your typical search... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Be a Stronger... Runner “Gradually is the key word. Don’t just jump in and all of a sudden run five miles,” says George Hirsch (MBA 1962), whose running credentials include completing 40 marathons and cofounding the New York City... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
goals. "At one point, Linda showed a videotape of Rudi in which he said, 'If you can't use your own personal style, you'll end up in a mental hospital.' I think that phrase resonated with us all because it's a big issue for many women,"... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
atmosphere each year. Jonas Lee: When we wrote our mission statement, it's like it's pretty simple. Like, we're here to decarbonize the atmosphere and we don't need a lot of flowery language around that. It's a big deal. DM: That's Jonas... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Jones and her staff in the SEC’s Atlanta office manage the enforcement, examinations, and business operations for five states: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. Along with SEC headquarters in Washington,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
landing on an aircraft carrier in darkness, flying combat missions over Korea, breaking the sound barrier, and then teaching others to do the same. This is the story of that journey. The Big Ordeal: Understanding and Managing the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
readmission to HBS, was accepted, and graduated as a Baker Scholar. I’ve told my five children to apply themselves when faced with negative events—my experience is an example to encourage anyone. Robert Capria (MBA 1969) What if Harry... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
algorithms that have been supercharged with more data and computing power, she says. “It’s not that they aren’t accomplishing interesting things—they are,” she notes. “But they’re not doing it in a way that your brain does it. So the next View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
building of closer relationships among those of you who - like our faculty - come from many diverse countries. The issues facing Asia today are too big and complex for any single person, university faculty, or company to comprehend fully.... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
and around Scranton during the 2006 congressional race, weary of fast food, spots a promising storefront. They’re closing, but she makes it in with five minutes to spare. Here is how the story goes, in her words: “A very handsome young... View Details