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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... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Smith Barney; Janet M. Green (MBA '88), partner at Ernst & Young; Ann M. Sarnoff (MBA '87), senior vice president of Nickelodeon; and Nancy C. Walker (MBA '86), general manager of Mosby Consumer Health. Among their words of advice to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
functionality contained in a search engine. Instead, each project was assessed by a panel of industry experts, who rated the performance of the resulting product relative to others that targeted similar customer needs at the same time.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measurement tool, the Total Motivation Factor, enables managers to measure the strength of the company culture and track improvements over time. They explore their original research into how Total Motivation leads to higher performance in... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
abilities, it makes sense to find a way to integrate them into the workforce, Fieldhouse explains. “Information from our research indicated the employment churn rate for people on the spectrum is extremely high—around 50 percent within... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION St. Stephen's College (Delhi), 1958 B.A., Economics The Government Law College (Bombay), 1960 LL.B. LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of legislative repair, along with limiting leverage and reforming the credit rating system (see Setting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
appointment as director general of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission. MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs MORE The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Dan Morrell: In 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, with View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to network, View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
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Slice of Life
that? So I was with a colleague and I said, "Hey, do me a favor. I can see the bag of flour here. Get a picture of me with this flour so I can figure out how to make this pizza." And as she's doing that, the manager comes up and he says,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
interests that later proved complementary when it came to carving up iTrust management responsibilities. Agarwala grew up in Calcutta, the original capital of India during British colonial rule, dreaming of playing cricket. He ultimately... View Details