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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Turkish Delight
BYFORD: Changing careers is well worth the effort. Grenville Byford (MBA ’79) was practical when he decided to pursue his interest in international relations. “Unless your name is Kissinger, you have to specialize in a particular area of the world,” he says. “As a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
loan when the credit crisis hit, small business owners inspire Mills daily with their determination, she says. "The people we work with are tightly woven into the fabric of their communities," notes Mills, whose career has been influenced... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021), who previously worked at Boston Consulting Group and has a background in the technical side of supply chain management, created Syrup Tech, a predictive software that drives inventory excellence, powered by... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
supply officer who was an HBS alumnus and who lent him copies of the Harvard Business Review. With a wife and children to support, Dunn decided that HBS would be a good choice when his tour of duty ended in 1959. Admitted to the Class of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
sector mortgage market without any government backing. Why don’t you favor that approach? The vast majority of mortgage credit can be provided by the private sector without government guarantees. But given the systemic risk associated... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and unprecedented public health measures... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
to macro shocks in the global economy, and there were few places to turn to for financial support. “There’s not much venture capital now, and for sure there wasn’t much venture capital back then,” he adds. “It was very tough to go to the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Ramanna. Economic tools of supply and demand can also be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public,... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
inward at their operations, and then to their supply chain,” Toffel said. “But another key lever is public policy. What are we doing to foster—or undermine—climate policy?” Approximately 100 people gathered for the discussion entitled... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A legacy of social and environmental respect
Akshay Kumar Parija (AMP 172, 2007) was already a successful international banker when he arrived at HBS in 2006. Today, however, he credits the AMP with helping him develop his courage and creativity—two character traits that set his... View Details
- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
anniversary of the financial crisis. “One of the goals of the conference is to better understand the decisions made by secretaries Paulson and Geithner in the midst of the crisis, and to draw out lessons that could prove useful in preventing the next one.” Calculating... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
difference to the entire region. You can see the prosperity returning to the villages.” The impacts of this prosperity have been significant. A local credit union has replaced an abusive loan-shark system; farmers (mostly women) have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
custom-built satellites and a proprietary analytics platform to gather and analyze satellite images for commercial customers. Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew Minnick credits several technological advances with putting... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in other areas. But we didn’t have a course that would help students understand consumers and the financial service firms that serve them, including traditional banks, insurance companies, credit card issuers, and brokers, as well as a... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
first started attending its public meetings, he says, the lawyers and lobbyists in the room were shocked when he told them he was just “a private citizen concerned about a long-term collapse of the US electric grid.” An attorney told... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong The novel coronavirus did more than disrupt jobs, supply chains, and financial markets, says HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé. The pandemic has also upended how... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, then went on to Harvard College. “Going to Harvard was a shock for me, a cultural shock,” he said in a February 2021 interview. “I was unprepared for it. Most of my fellow students had gone into prep... View Details