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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
“Now with blockchain, network effects are turbocharged, while bringing back principles of open innovation that Web 1.0 had,” Wu says. Read more about Building open-source applications with logic encoded in smart contracts helps businesses get to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Download Jakurski profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1948 Born, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1971 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Pontifícia Universidade... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Company” In 1997, a portion of the Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewage System is taken over by a joint venture, the Manila Water Company, which must develop the newly acquired employees and assets into a profitable firm. I work in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Growth Investor
Genesee & Wyoming, a railroad holding company. “It was a complex deal, and our thesis generated some uncertainty, but when we sold our assets a year later we had almost doubled our money.” Favorite PD investment: An eight-unit apartment... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Consumer Resilience BIO True sustainability is both green (energy/environment) and resilient (hazard-resistant/continuing). Destroyed green assets are a double loss. Non-resilient development burdens environment, economy, and society.... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
determination, strength, and grace that has made her one of the most influential and noteworthy leaders in corporate America today. For the past 21 years, Fudge has demonstrated a remarkable ability to lead teams, reposition products, and increase the bottom line. She... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
what assets to protect and which people to move? We all hope Al Gore and Greta Thunberg fix everything, but if they don’t, then homeowners, businesses, universities, and governments will have to do something.” If the pandemic laid bare... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet a host of consumer... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
bust, people wanted real assets they could see and touch and real dividends,” adds Stephen Lebovitz (MBA ’88), president of CBL & Associates Properties based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fourth-largest mall REIT in North America with a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
plan doesn’t do enough to recapitalize banks. The Treasury’s view, he said, is that creating a market for distressed assets will help recapitalize the banks to the extent that its actions make these View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
With markets reeling in the wake of the subprime mortgage fiasco, BusinessWeek (September 3, 2007) turned to Wall Street eminence and Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein (MBA ’71) for “much needed perspective on the current turmoil.” Asked about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
the payout rate—typically around 5 percent of the endowment’s prior year-end market value —that can be withdrawn and used to support activities in accordance with the donor’s intentions and the terms of each gift. A large majority of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
global alliances and networks, and internationalization. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Press) Each time an employee leaves a firm, an asset most valuable to its future is lost: the know-how that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
they'd like to have some very low-risk assets like cash and fixed income and — rather than worry about the public-equity markets — barbell that with much higher-risk assets, such as private equity, real... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in pursuit of higher market value.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley