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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
VCs who suggested she didn’t have the right skill set to lead a logistics- and operations-heavy business. One advised Emara to switch roles with her male COO cofounder, at least while she was fundraising. “There were a lot of issues on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
a financial analyst with IBM's Latin American division for three years, planning all along to go back to school after gaining some work experience. "Harvard expects you to do research that has certain managerial implications. That was... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards
The US corporate tax code is impeding the nation’s ability to compete in the worldwide economy, according to Mihir A. Desai (MBA 1993, PhD 1998), the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance. Desai has found that current US policies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Saving the Steel Industry
Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) played a key role in helping to save the U.S. steel industry in the 1990s, writes the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 4, 2007). Bloom spent five years at Lazard Freres before starting a firm that advised unions about... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
financial advisory services. The firm, which has grown at a steady but significant pace, went public in 2004 and recently expanded operations into the insurance, financial services, and industrial markets.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
between the liberal bishop and the GOP politician, who share an interest in putting the values of their Christian faith into action in the secular arena,” the Boston Globe (March 7, 2005) reported. Houghton, who himself at one time considered entering the ministry,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
of the relationships formed between HBS faculty and participants from abroad. “This program has had a tremen-dous impact in Europe,” says Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA ’54), founder and president of the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER) and the EECPCL’s... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
together in online communities to provide the financial and commercial resources necessary for business success, with networks of supportive peers, suppliers, investors, and customers. At the same time, iCrowd will provide investors with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
full courses Acting in Time: Leadership and Management in the Face of Large-Scale Risks is a leadership capstone course designed for students who, over the course of their careers, will lead an organization that faces large-scale risks. Analyzing View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) Sandra Sucher (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva; Getty Images) After studying mass layoffs for a decade, Professor Sandra Sucher has seen the detrimental effects and advises against this... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
only been done in rats, at Massachusetts General Hospital.” After HBS, Green worked at Monitor for a time, in which capacity he advised South Africa’s African National Congress, among other assignments. In 1996, he and a new management... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- News
After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial
marketplace hit that several other publications launched their own over the next several years, including Forbes, the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report, and the Wall Street Journal. For better or worse, the rankings came to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus
a job right now, why don’t you just go for it?” Mr. Gold recalls advising her. “Three months later she’d raised, like, $3 million.” Ms. Hyman invited him to join her board, but he worried about a conflict of interest. “I declined and it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
the HBS Fund provide flexible funding that the School can use immediately to support core priorities like financial aid and faculty research, pursue new ideas and initiatives, and respond to unexpected opportunities and challenges. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
clear look at how a firm’s percentage of profits, or carry, is calculated and distributed. Then comes the heart of the matter: a number of insider tips any entrepreneur seeking funds must learn. For example, Bussgang advises money-seekers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Greenspan’s tacit approval, used previously unexploited provisions in the Glass-Steagall and Bank Holding Company acts to push through a merger that ultimately changed the regula-tory environment for the entire U.S. financial services... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg