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- 01 Oct 2002
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Andrew H. Tisch
things like helping the pool attendant put towels on the chaise longues. It was a family business, so we were all involved.” Tisch Hotels evolved into the Loews Corporation, one of the largest diversified financial enterprises in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
presentations to a group of some three hundred top investment professionals. Presenters spoke of markets with multibillion-dollar potential, margins over 70 percent, eighteen-month paths to profitability, and, of course, products View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
that don’t turn up in their financial reports. So how is a consumer—or an investor or board of directors, for that matter—to know how well a purpose-driven company is really doing on any of these metrics? “The fact of the matter is that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
successful.” The assessment trend is also driven by companies that are eager for what Schlatka calls “people data.” Businesses that have long relied on customer numbers and financial reports to make important decisions have recognized... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
1890. Most people would like to see business provide good jobs at good wages. Yet, many successful businesses ship their jobs overseas, and some companies that have tried paternalistically to guarantee good jobs have, in the past decade, been blasted in the View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
Results, published in a recent working paper, showed that the number of promotional spots viewed had a positive impact on the “match” between viewer and show. Essentially, the more promotions they had seen, the more likely viewers were to... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
stimulates the body’s circadian rhythms, cuing the production of cortisol during the day to keep you alert and melatonin at night to ready your body for rest. “It’s based on about 15 years of scientific research from NASA, the NIH, and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
leather that is produced through sustainable, non-polluting practices. Many years later, it’s gratifying to see the positive results of that project.” As CEO of Competitiveness.com until 2012, Duch personally led more than 120 of the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
will soon move from HTML programming language to XML. Ballmer stated that this shift would alter the current Internet balance of power in which consumers are in a reactive position as they relate to company (or "publisher's") Web sites.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
financial details of the stallion business are simple enough but require some explication. If a horse is successful at the track, its owners are courted by breeding farms that hope to manage his career at stud. “When you stand a horse for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
everyone's life." Dubinsky found Apple's casual atmosphere—where smart people thrived—a good fit and accepted a position as a support specialist. "Apple had real energy. I loved the notion that we were changing the world. To me that was a... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing courses such as Industrial Marketing... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
leading Goldman Sachs's new, in-house environmental efforts. Three years later, he applied for the CEO position at the Washington, D.C.-based TNC. "At first, I was viewed as an odd candidate; but to the board's credit, they thought my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
high-ranking executive positions. One of those 67, Beverly Anderson (MBA 1997), is working to grow that number. An executive vice president at Wells Fargo with nearly three decades in the financial industry, Anderson hopes that her legacy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
initiatives such as field learning, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem, HBX, and joint degree programs with other Harvard schools,” says Melnick. Philanthropy is essential to the School’s financial health, providing the security and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
too. Perhaps they can offset the upfront cost of capital until order volume reaches the appropriate tipping point. The company can purchase inventory with a traditional financial vehicle from there. —Brad Cowdrey (OPM 49, 2017) I... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint