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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
structure in place so these ventures can be financed,” he explains. Sean John Clothing has quickly grown to sales of $200 million and one hundred employees since it was launched five years ago. “It’s our most profitable area,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining ethical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
crisis, and in the firm itself. “The business models used and the whole structure of the industry are complex, and it can take us a while to sort that out,” he notes. “But it’s worth the trouble, because... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
in either a team or a one-on-one setting.” Continues Klump, “I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my boss, in which... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
whole technology landscape is going, how related firms are progressing, and how its work fits into that context.” He also cites public policy issues and government involvement; intellectual property questions; longer time horizons; and... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish
Charlton Ames (MBA 1970) is chairman and vice president of business development for Sea Run Holdings, a virtual firm in Maine that develops innovative biologics and therapeutics from the blood of farmed salmon. In this video he explains... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Joella Lykouretzos, MBA 2001
Since launching Hoplite Capital Management LLC in 2003 with her husband, John, Joella (Foster) Lykouretzos has seen their firm establish a record that lives up to its name, which evokes the intrepid citizen soldiers of ancient Greece. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One participant wondered how the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
the lands will be managed sustainably in perpetuity, and, in many cases, the assurance of public access to the land for recreation,” he explains. Based in Hanover, New Hampshire, Lyme is recognized as a leader in conservation investing, having View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ceiling Unlimited
pocket," Chen recalled of his arrival in America. After working at Hughes for many years building satellites and at a high-tech trading firm he cofounded, in 1990 Chen helped start his own company, Advanced Aerodynamic & View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
unlikely to go away. Over the long run, you want firms to change their cost structures and move into different parts of the market.” That, she admitted, “is easy to say and hard to do.” Asked what the likely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Professor Nikolaos Trichakis. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6857.html. The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms Running a financial organization, never easy to begin with, has quickly become one of the most difficult leadership... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
Ownership Matters: Bringing Owners on Board In his working paper, "The Impact of Ownership Type on Performance in Public Corporations: A Study of the U.S. Textile Industry 1983-1992," HBS assistant professor David L. Kang demonstrates that the ownership View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
School graduates on every continent, there is such potential for this institution to make a real difference in the world. Our family is proud to be able to play a small role in helping to make that difference." Three stories high with approximately 50,000 square feet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
result in a special issue of the Journal of Accounting and Economics.” “It is critical for us to understand the relationships between our economic systems and the natural environment, and to figure out the leadership and governance View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the growing role of intermediaries. Gompers and Lerner argue that the next decade is likely to see a fundamental transformation in the structure of the venture industry, as a relative handful of large, professionally managed venture... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Accountability Systems for Greater Performance and Commitment by Robert Simons (HBS Press) Professor Simons thinks leaders should regard the structure of an organization (the system of accountability that defines roles, rights, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Executive Action
A rendering of the new Chao Center (Illustration by Goody Clancy) Harvard Business School broke ground for the construction of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center—on April 24. The Chao Center, a 90,000-square-foot, four-story View Details