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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable of enforcing its own View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
the former and protect the latter. He took the advice to heart and refers to it often in public presentations. As with most successful entrepreneurs, his reputation is pretty much inseparable from that of his company, and Mistele is proud... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
mortgage-backed securities were greatly overvalued, giving investors and bank CEOs a false sense of security. “The cycles of optimism and pessimism in financial markets will always exist, but we can help people make better informed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
want to protect our core activities of teaching and research and pursue innovation in arenas like the MBA curriculum and artificial intelligence (AI). But we also are focused on how we can do more with less. JK: Last week, the government... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
centuries from now. As cofounder of the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust, Coady has helped to conserve almost 4,000 acres of the peninsula, creating the Crow’s Nest Natural Area Preserve, a popular destination for hikers, kayakers, and birdwatchers. “It is about... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a range of close-to-custom sizes.... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Fieldglass, CrowdTwist, Veracode, and Insurance.com. In 2000, StarVest was a lead investor in NetSuite, when the firm had just $100,000 in revenues; Farrington served on the company’s board from NetSuite’s IPO in 2007 leading up to its... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
to clean oil spills Bickley Stevens II (MBA 1969) Stevens Capital Advisors Cambridge, Massachusetts Advisory and investment banking services to clean-technology companies and investors Alexander Taussig (MBA 2009) Highland Capital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below, often evolves. And when a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
rewarding to operate from a place of strength. Be unapologetic about protecting your time with your family. You’ll make mistakes, but over time you will hone the ability to know what to attend and what to miss.” —Eva Heyman (MBA 2002),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
tempered by substantial risks for businesses and investors looking to cash in on China’s economic renaissance. Over the course of the three-day Global Leadership Forum, twenty HBS faculty members and thirty U.S. and Chinese business... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
comes to protecting our communities and our planet. NLK: So when a Goldman Sachs or a BlackRock says, “We will not invest in companies that don’t get it in terms of environment,” it makes many companies in which they are View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author John Schwarz turns a childhood... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
our culture or managing key customers and investor relationships,” Gregg says. “I jokingly told someone I’m the spiritual center of the company. You need to embrace that aspect of the job to get people excited about being here.” Moment in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Banks. Amid the excitement, abuses have also appeared, with some online lenders reportedly charging as much as 50 percent in interest on some short-term loans. It’s been enough to attract the attention of regulators, with everyone from the Consumer Financial View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller