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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
money risk handicapping their venture if money dwindles or dries up completely. On the other hand, founders who accept funding risk losing control of their venture since there’s almost always an amount of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
sometimes intense cyclicality that can result in turmoil and hardship for many. And we interfere with that cyclicality at our peril, as pent up economic forces will eventually be unleashed with far greater ferocity. Still, under capitalism, View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
every hand in the class went up. Needless to say, the faculty had never seen such eagerness to participate before. Some people began playing multiple cards. To rectify this unfairness, we brought market discipline to the fore and started... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
Norton teaches in the Marketing Unit and is cowriting a book on money and happiness. This article first appeared as a New York Times blog post on March 22, 2011. View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results. View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
new water systems or repair deteriorating ones, there is money in water. Already a big business attracting major corporate players such as General Electric, Siemens, ITT, Suez, and Tyco, water is a $400 billion global industry. While just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
separate technology, product development, and marketing operations. The reorganization imposed much-needed focus and put renewed emphasis on accountability for on-time, on-budget product delivery. “At the beginning of 2006, we were... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
discipline at an early stage. Certainly we’re glad now that we spent all that time focusing on the plan itself and on the basic economics of the business.” After graduation, the group headed to San Francisco to raise money and launch Bang... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
wanted to build a business that not only makes money but also nurtures its employees, builds community, and minimizes environmental impact. Five years later, Magagnini and Strugatz are putting the finishing touches on IceStone’s most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
to help launch the product once they created a commercially viable recipe. In January 2013, they debuted their chocolate milk shake in the natural grocery channel (including Whole Foods Market and Sprouts Farmers Market). Over the course... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
who won an auction for about $19 million in government-seized bitcoins in July. “Bitcoin frees people from trying to operate in a modern market economy with weak currencies,” Draper noted in a statement. Most governments want to control... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
infrastructure in the world. What are the implications for their ability to leapfrog content and technical developments in this sector in the United States? Internet development in China. Online marketing and consumer behavior in South... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
fixing the problems? And maybe my answer would have been different 15, 20 years ago, but I think increasingly I believe that the answer is no. There is a groundswell of great people who are working to solve our fundamental problems, and delaying the I'll do something... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
the private individuals behind the more public personae. For complete profiles, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/awards/. Photos by Webb Chappell Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA ’85) Founder and CEO Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium Giusti A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
opportunity to create products that enable consumers to easily do the right thing,” says Paiji Yoo. It’s a sentiment shared by founding member Gina Pak (MBA 2015) who, as Blueland’s head of Marketing and Experience, was the one to deliver... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace. When he and his siblings sold it in 2006, Macomber started teaching at HBS, where he began some revelatory research into the Indian real estate market and its regulatory and environmental issues. “It... View Details