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- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
analyze, deal with changing assumptions, and defend my views in front of my peers in a graded environment. That’s how students see the case method. Faculty see the case as a source of education, innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
appellate court on Skilling’s appeal is near. A great deal is at stake with the court’s ruling. For Skilling, it will either seal his fate as a convicted criminal or open up possibilities for further vindication. (In the 2006 trial, nine... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
initial step in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The company’s launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and the right, with analysis that underscores... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
strong economy is also going to buoy Latinx entrepreneurs, who had difficulty both accessing funds through the Paycheck Protection Program and finding alternative sources of financial support—in addition to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
the National Venture Capital Association, the volume of capital flowing into startups in the first quarter of 2019 was up by 10.5 percent from the previous year, but the number of deals was down by 22.5 percent. As a result, says Alper... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg during an unparalleled career as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and three-term mayor of New York City. “I’ve always believed a good deal is where both parties walk away thinking that they didn’t get everything they want, but... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter choices about the businesses... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
problems for learning and for change." Jensen believes this tendency is the source of most so-called people problems in organizations. Jensen's model defines two regimes of behavior: the Resourceful, Evaluative, Maximizing Model (REMM)... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What we're doing boosts employee... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
although we set the standard in South Africa and everywhere else we operate, we’ve got to do better. The second area that needed improvement was government relations. Starting first in South Africa, we’ve worked to upgrade that relationship substantially. Black... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
champion of Asian studies since that first visit to China, noted in his welcoming remarks that HBS opened its Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong in 1999, creating a launching pad for case writing and research from Indonesia to Korea. Since then, more than eighty... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
partnerships or alliances. While in Argentina, Alvarez observed how business leaders have learned to be flexible and creative. “I’m impressed when I talk to people who are keeping their food businesses going, given the turmoil they face View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
initial venture fund of $60 million (at that point the largest private equity fund ever raised), the new firm began doing deals in a wide range of enterprises. But in the early 1980s, as the VC business became more and more competitive,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
price. Included is a summary of US newspapers' diminished circulation and advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Instead, German defeat was due to errors of Nazi diplomacy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary sources (including many recently released), Hitler’s Great Gamble is a provocative work that will appeal to a wide cross-section of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
focusing on and expecting major growth with younger fans (especially ages 6–13), US Hispanics ("more of whom watched the last Super Bowl than the last World Cup final"), and women ("a strong group and getting stronger"). To reach the first two groups, the league has... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
that the business of oil exploration is more capital intensive than people intensive. "But those we do have are given a great deal of financial responsibility." James Hackett of Ocean Energy does see a few advantages for smaller companies... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
on an aggressive campaign to increase our profile abroad. The Class of 2001 will be more than one-third international, which is a huge jump. We have also increased fellowship funding by about $2.5 million for next year. In coordination with Citibank, we are offering a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
BEI helps alumni and other leaders by connecting them to resources or troubleshooting issues they’re facing in their companies, such as how to prepare the workforce to deal with sustainability and climate challenges, or questions... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie