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- 01 Dec 2005
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A Matter of Opinion
numbers and play an increasingly important role in public discourse. “According to one definitive study,” Navasky says, “in the 1980s, fifty corporations dominated more than half the information/entertainment/knowledge companies. Today,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
need and should not be subject to the vagaries of profit-driven management or the potential manipulation of markets. But it is these same market forces that could well drive crucial changes in water use. In theory, when water becomes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat:... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The Big Picture While View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 23 Jan 2017
- News
The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee
offices. Burwick managed all of this, the article notes, while guiding the company through a transition from public entity to private ownership. Before joining Peet’s, Burwick worked at PepsiCo and as president of Weight Watchers North... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
employees, a long-view strategy, and keeping the family businesses home. For Bauerly, owning and growing Minnesota businesses made perfect sense. If you compare states across the country on a scatter plot, you tend to see an increase in performance when those states... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
investing, and I wanted to explore those from an academic perspective,” Owusu-Kesse recalls. Looking back at his three years in graduate school, he notes, “Surprisingly, one of the business courses that helps me the most in what I do today was Professor [Anita]... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
with the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. “We are approaching a cliff,” says Anna Diaz Triola (MBA 2000), vice president of marketing at Summit Therapeutics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is part of a cohort of small pharma... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
be paid for that social performance at a rate that enables it to give a satisfactory return to the investors,” says Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), a cocreator of the idea. Cohen has emerged as the public face of social investing in the UK... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
market transformation in Sri Lanka. The YSP leadership team, comprising entirely of US-trained Sri Lankans, is united by a passion to support the country's post-conflict resurgence. While the investment banking View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
successful navigation of turbulent markets will require a mastery of the core skills of corporate finance. This book focuses on essential valuation methodologies for public and private companies on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
is a mistake. The issue is, to paraphrase HBS professor Michael Porter, what’s our strategy? We have to have a strategy as a nation, but not just any strategy. In 2007, 40 percent of the profits of American public corporations came from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
Leadership Development (ALD) are encouraged to check their public personae—the polished resumes or stylized Facebook pages they've crafted that tell a version of their life story—at the door. Inside the classroom, the focus is on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
dry—contraband in the eyes of Poland’s Communist government, which approved all publications in the country. Maj held his breath as an officer of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa—the secret police—walked by the entrance to the alleyway. It was... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
ALS is a good investment for them, the market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do in decades.” Using a prize model, Prize4Life essentially “pays for results,” says Kremer’s friend, classmate, and board member... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Internet, rank novices can disable an organization’s Web site, hurting business while giving the firm an embarrassingly public black eye. More serious are the sometimes devastating and often indiscriminate internal intrusions perpetrated... 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
that will make anonymity an afterthought. I think the Bitcoin public ledger will eventually hold so much valuable information that some very interesting analytics companies are going to emerge to make sense of the data. Has there ever... View Details