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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
New Face at Facebook
“It was the shot heard ’round Silicon Valley: Internet upstart Facebook, Inc. raided search giant Google, Inc. for a No. 2 executive it hoped would turn the social-networking Web site into a major moneymaker,” declared the Los Angeles... View Details
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
this happens is one of the many subjects discussed in the new book Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know, by authors Marc J. Epstein of Rice University and F. Warren McFarlan of Harvard Business School. In this excerpt from the introduction, Rice and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Small Leaders, Important Roles I enjoyed reading “This Is What I Do” in the December Bulletin, with its profiles of three alumni who are changing things for the better in their fields of endeavor. The vast majority of HBS alumni are not... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
chair of the Negotiation and Decision Making unit. Indeed, the field has grown so important that in 1994 HBS became the first major business school to require a full negotiation course for MBAs. In that popular new course, which draws on... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 08 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity
utilized by earlier stage investors.” There are also numerous PE firms with well-known brands that attract large numbers of students to campus events and into their applicant pool. In terms of location, students tend to focus on major... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 24 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Introducing the HBS Heartland Club
A first-generation college student, she attended Vanderbilt University where she majored in English Literature before heading down to Miami to work in Global Operations for Restaurant Brands International on the Burger King brand. Before... View Details
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Yueran Ma
growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was riddled with frictions and... View Details
- Web
Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
Archives The Tata Central Archives holds over 150,000 documents, including manuscripts, printed material, and memorabilia. It also holds an extensive multi-media collection including audio and video recordings on Tata institutions and about View Details
- Web
Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog
time shadowing other functions within the firm to better grasp the investment process. The majority of the work on the projects will be done independently by the students using the resources at HBS and from the sponsoring firms. Students... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
company with a business model selling affordable housing to first-time home buyers among the country’s poor, and outperforming the Tokyo Nikkei index. Chu coauthored the case, “Katitas: Home Ownership for the Majority of Japan,” and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
“because when people talk about getting to 100 percent renewables, that’s not happening without the storage.” SER’s first two major investments, representing approximately $66 million in equity capital, were companies in the battery... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
major obstacle. “I couldn’t pay for graduate education out of pocket and taking a large loan would limit what I could do afterward,” he says. “Luckily, HBS offered me a fellowship, which helped me overcome that obstacle.” Receiving the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance unit of General Re Corporation, Life Re Corporation of America. The firm continued to grow as a major player in the U.S. reinsurance business, helped considerably during the 1990s by several strategic acquisitions. Life Re... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
problem. To do a story like that in Boeing's hometown was not very popular, but we stuck to our guns. I'M ALSO VERY PROUD of stories we published that did not win Pulitzers. One was a series called "Coaches Who Prey." We were the first paper in the country to do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
essence, doing the right thing. Each major character in the epic embodies a moral failing or virtue. Das compares their successes and failures with those of prominent contemporary players in economics, business, and politics and finds... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Propel Your Career Forward with Some of Our Favorite Books
an opportunity for alumni to reflect on their careers and take the steps needed to continue down a path of success or make a change. True North Our society needs strong leaders to help solve major world issues. More importantly, for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
support for bundling pilot projects in the health-care legislation enacted in April 2010. In fact, the legislation inspired Herzlinger to initiate the field study project with New England Baptist Hospital. A major goal of the students’... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
to other major buyers like BMG and Hipgnosis Songs Fund, which has spent about $2 billion on the catalogs of Neil Young and Shakira. Clarke Soares, the former CEO of Tempo Music Investments and a managing director at Morgan Stanley before... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
usually don't get to participate in a third," Ruettgers said. "A team can't be successful unless the whole team is producing." Despite increasing competition, the future looks busy for EMC, with a new mother lode - the Internet - waiting to be mined. "Some dotcoms are... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
focused mainly on avoiding risk -- and more on resource attraction, which nurtures innovation. For the past 41 years, the McKinsey Foundation for Management Research has offered awards recognizing the two best HBR articles published each year. Judged by an independent... View Details