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- 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
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
understand and respect the complexities inherent in the culture. Striking, too, were the gaps between myth and reality that emerged at a number of the forum's concurrent panel discussions. At HBS associate professor Debora L. Spar's... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
national interest was still going strong—but it was losing millions of dollars a year. Something had to change. Bradley, a slim, silver-haired man in his early 50s, spoke clearly but softly—a viral infection had damaged his vocal cords... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
I left Blackstone in August 2023. At that point, we basically had the draft finished. He reached out to a few publishers. We got interest from a couple. And then he unfortunately passed in October 2023, right after I enrolled here at... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
hundred students, professionals, and alumni with business interests in Africa attended the event, which served as a forum for understanding the reasons behind Africa's continuing loss of intellectual... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
realize that on one or two of those competencies, you don’t have a compelling story, and it’s harder to go and build that to make up that ground if you start late. So I would encourage the folks coming out of school now to start with a long view, View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
discipline. It comes in a mess, and we try to figure out how to understand it, and how to deal with it. What the world most needs going forward is integrative, holistic, and systemic thinking. The challenge for the School is how to keep... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance.” Koehn’s response follows. First, there are many important lessons for business leaders to be found in areas outside business. When we look at enduring works of literature, for example, we find View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
services jargon is really scary for newer investors to overcome. In the United States, we don’t teach children how to manage their finances in school. So even when people graduate from college or graduate school, many don’t have the tools or even the View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
stuff. One of the things that I was seeing recently is tech used in interesting ways, where in, I think it was Las Vegas,where someone would approach a little monitor and it would take their temperature. And it would say they were okay... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
and support the achievement of objectives. What are some of the leadership lessons to be learned from the fall of Enron? Lafley: Beware of hubris. It raises the question, "Did they have the capability to understand the business model they... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
School’s doctoral program. But first he had to complete the MBA program, which wasn’t a great fit. BW: It was not actually of much interest to me because it’s managerial, I’m a more scholarly academic. I wanted to go into the doctoral... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
impact on the economic ecosystem, where Apple allows users to prevent ad tracking. But for whom is this data actually useful? What’s interesting here is that the data benefit some of Apple’s competitors, like Meta. Increasingly, students... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
Consulting Group, Ng wrote The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career off Right as a guide for early career professionals—and particularly to help level the playing field for the outsiders. But it’s equally important, he says, for leaders to better View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
inquiring into whether he had any interest in a leadership role within local government. Though he had given the field little thought previously, Gower realized it fit the parameters of the new career he had been seeking. “Local... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
understand how best to utilize their talents to make a difference. We help companies find ways to become more profitable in socially responsible ways. If a company is seeking ways to invest in a community it operates in, we can find... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
interest lies in the boundaries between religion and the wider world," says the newly ordained Messenger. "To my mind, finding meaning in everyday activities is what religion is all about." Messenger says he often felt out of place during... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
A Roundabout Path To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without... View Details