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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
home, and they would sell it to Blacks for up to 30 times what they had paid for the home. And the interest rate that they were charging would be usury, but Blacks they had no other choice. They had to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair game. I went for flexibility... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
corruption, the interesting and important issues are shades of gray,” observes Abdelal, who has authored several case studies on corruption and is writing a book on the subject with HBS professor Rafael Di Tella. Very broadly speaking,... View Details
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
1982), Masako Egawa (MBA 1986), Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), and Masato Nakamura (MBA 2020). “We will have monthly talks with different perspectives: measurement (accounting), corporate, venture, renewables, historical, climate risk... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
It is difficult to conceive of any policy that would be more destructive to American business innovation. Given global competition, it is not in anyone’s interest to force a union bureaucracy into businesses that must be innovative and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
night shift took over my bunk while I was observing and interviewing the day shift. The food was great, and most of the time I arrived and departed by helicopter.” Looking back on the project, she rates it “the best field research... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
have to say, especially if they disagree with you.” ADVICE TO STUDENTS “Keep an open mind about what you want to do after you graduate. You may discover areas of interest that you didn't even know about before you came to HBS. And once... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
decade, according to the World Bank, an increase of more than 50 percent. The national unemployment rate has hovered under 5 percent, touching record lows. Income inequality—though still a major issue for the country—is dropping: Between... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug discoveries that translate... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
bold moves. One of the bigger risks involved a tour she had planned with Kanye West. When West had to drop out, the question was, should Gaga go on the tour by herself? It seems a risky move for an artist who's not well known. But she and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
resilience and transformation against extraordinary odds and war. Risks and Returns: Creating Success in Business and Life By Wilbur Ross (MBA 1961) Regnery Before being named President Trump’s Secretary of Commerce in 2017, Wilbur Ross... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
list of every loan in the works, discussing risk factors, the market, and local politics. “That’s always an interesting meeting for me, since I used to be on the borrower’s side at my job in Houston.” Oakes... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
headlines, the vaccine sector was a pretty sleepy space. Interest in vaccine development and production had been on the decline for decades. In the 1960s—the triumphant years after Jonas Salk discovered the first polio vaccine—there were... View Details
- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
associated with the discomfort of conventional self-injections. "We're not moving the needle, we're removing the needle," he adds, with a laugh. Anquetil is a serial entrepreneur with a special interest in medical technology. Born and... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
invaluable after she and Mitchell launched the foundation, including making connections to donors and to people who have become members of Reset’s advisory board. “It’s definitely been a useful network, a way to find people who are View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
missing.” LIGHT: This is a time that we're going to be teaching about for years to come. The Risk of Moral Hazard HBS professor David Moss brought a historian’s perspective to the discussion of the nation’s financial crisis. While the... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit conservation. He has worked extensively on... View Details