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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
more than we earn. It’s very simple.” —James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59), Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC “The real strength of America is not its technical schools. What we don’t have in India, and what the world doesn’t understand the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they’re often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
Raiser (MBA 1990), known on the “playa” as CocoCabana, serves as treasurer of the organization, in addition to working at her family’s real estate business. “It feels like being the grown-up at a kid’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
the gaming industry was the perfect place for her turnaround-executive mindset: “At one of the world’s largest gaming platforms, I can actually make real change.” Sarah Bond has never had trouble saying the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
journalists are embedded in Iraq, compared with 500 in Vietnam in the 1970s. Is the decline of the Fourth Estate no more lamentable than that of the Sony Walkman? Things are feeling downright funereal. Newsweek purged 111 staffers from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their communities by rising View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
by the industry we regulate. So this was a historic moment to come into this job. In addition, the SEC itself recently had been through some tough times, so it seemed like the agency was in need of new leadership. Not long after you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Presented with thirteen job offers in 1978, Ann S. Moore accepted the one in the industry she knew she wanted to be in — magazine publishing. It also happened to be the one offering the lowest salary. “People were astounded with the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
you have performed much more than adequately to have lasted so long; and a confidence that having come this far, you are well prepared to meet all future challenges." "The nation's business community," Graves said, "continues to reserve the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
to take the information revolution very seriously. Echoing Rudenstine's re-marks on the aptness of the word "revolution," McFarlan declared, "The changes are that fundamental and dramatic. Products, services, and industry structures are... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
brokers to talk to Internet customers in real time, cautioned that advances in quality and service should be introduced over time. "It's important to stay on the leading edge with customers without falling off," he concluded. "Technology... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
challenging? "By far the most enjoyable and rewarding part is building the BollyX community. I love working in the fitness industry—people in this industry are so positive, outgoing, and inspiring (it must be the exercising and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
diversified the company’s interests by adding investments in energy and infrastructure to supplement Sintesa’s holdings in consumer and industrial products as well as property and development. Ten years on, Kamdani notes that implementing... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
conversation. What are the major market forces that are transforming the health-care system? First and foremost, it's consumers. They have already revolutionized the retailing and information industries because they are so busy working... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development Courtesy Birchwood Sustainable Development When Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) was shopping for real estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2018, she had some atypical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
in West Sussex, England, and Johannesburg. The real work gets done “under the wild mango tree” at the lodges. “We have these open house meetings where you pull up chairs under the mango tree and you talk for two hours—that’s the proper... View Details
Keywords: April White