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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Case Study Pioneer
building the Intercollegiate Case Clearing House, an organization at HBS that was dedicated to US and international dissemination of cases written by faculty from Harvard and other universities. A legacy of his work is the Andrew R. Towl Endowment Fund at HBS for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Pogossova (HBS ’05), LCA provided a richer understanding of complex issues and an international perspective. “In class, I could see where people were coming from and how their point of view is derived from their environment and their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock market... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
recognized that conserved land has many embedded values: limited development (environmentally friendly real estate), sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestration potential, recreation (eco-tourism), water rights, and more. Profits for Patagonia Sur's investors are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Spreading the Words
income from national syndication of their daily word puzzle called Rootonym.) Even as they invest more time in developing the Web site, the Cooks wouldn’t think of charging users an access fee. They told Gentry Magazine (October 2003) that the pleasure they View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)
secured and the league is fully capitalized, and with additional revenues derived from television contracts and ticket sales, the NSA, Rottenberg believes, will be on sound financial footing from the outset, unlike most fledgling leagues.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
A Natural Balance
ancient Indian practice of ayurveda, "a holistic science about well-being, inner balance, and inner beauty." Ayurvedic medicine holds that a person's body type, or dosha, derives from the three elemental energies of air, fire, and earth;... View Details
- 31 Mar 2011
- News
Building an Online Swap Shop
Reinhart: Deriving success in derivative markets. thredUP, a children’s clothing swap Web site cofounded by HBS classmates James Reinhart and Chris Homer (MBA ’09), expanded into toys last fall, just in time... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
kind of hilarious to me. But that was then, and now it’s semi-communist China that’s keeping American capitalism afloat. And Mr. Ji’s notion of banking was shaped in a different era, when banking was still a proudly conservative profession. Nowadays, with banking... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
moving in a similar direction in collaboration with the late Fischer Black. Investors use derivatives to hedge their portfolios against the effects of sudden shifts in the market. Merton's work provides them with a formula for evaluating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
learnings in Madrigal are not dependent on context. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a retail business or a SaaS B2B business or an app or industrial product—you name it,” she says. This case’s aim is to equip students with the skills to look at a set of summary tables and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
objective was met. Our space research gave rise to Silicon Valley, and U.S. industrial strength was enhanced by technology innovation derived from products created for our satellite program. By 1980, however, Europe, helped by the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
diabetes by creating new beta cells in the pancreas. This is difficult work that is high risk but high reward. You have come to grips with the many ethical considerations in working with stem cells derived from embryos that were created... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Turning Point: Makeover
Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) My first job was as a derivatives trader. The markets fascinated me; the testosterone-driven culture of the trading floor did not.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
offering a brand of all-natural facial moisturizing oils derived from argan oil, obtained from southern Morocco’s argan tree. The company will work with the rural poor to build sustainable business around argan oil production. Emprofit,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Leading Quietly
inconspicuously and without casualties." Badaracco believes that what drives society are millions of small yet consequential decisions that individuals make on a daily basis. He presents a series of situations describing quiet leaders at work and View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
that allows indigenous Mexican populations to earn vital income by planting seedlings and developing pine-tree forests on their degraded lands. Arias-King, president of T&R Chemicals in Texas, uses natural pine resin tapped from trees to make View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
derives 80 percent of its data from a lengthy questionnaire filled out by the schools, heavily weighting student career services, diversity of corporate recruiting, and starting salaries. With such a wide range of approaches, the results... View Details