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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
thinking about problems and to do it at the right time or even ahead of time. He's a marvelous freak of nature." On quiet moral leadership: "Within everyday ordinary people, if you look closely, you can find some extraordinary things." What View Details
Keywords: Management
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Screen Time
iStock/ST.art MBA 1982’s Section B had already formed a close-knit group that gathered often in the decades following their time at the School, when the pandemic appeared in the spring of 2020. Unable to enjoy one another’s company in person, the group didn’t miss a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a banking system... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
week, coupled with the very real risk (in Sityodtong’s mind, at least) that he would fail to successfully complete his MBA. But his mother convinced him to take out loans, and was equally determined that her... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
of the capital stack to support others coming in on top of that, which might have higher return expectations? How do we assemble that so that we can hit both impact and investment outcomes? What other shifts in the industry are you watching? We’re seeing a View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
“As long as the stock market trades within a narrow range, and long-term interest rates don’t go much higher, I think real estate is here to stay as a very important place... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
And the investor was lured into thinking that if the underlying asset was appreciating so quickly, any mistake would be camouflaged by that increase in value. What is your view of proposed remedies, such as freezing interest View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal Reserve potentially poised to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by monetary policy” that held View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked up an enviable 20... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
a month, and as one of its youngest members, Kwiker recognized the need to get more young HBS alumni involved. “I went to the president of the club and told him I was interested in hosting a dinner party for recent HBS graduates,” says... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
competition frequently requires previously agreed-upon issues to be renegotiated." Add in the risks of costly misunderstanding and conflict from globalization and a diverse U.S. workforce, Sebenius continues, and it's clear why students... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
Illustration by Daniel Bejar The Chinese economy seems to have finally hit the brakes. Thanks to stalling real estate and export markets, this year China reported first and second quarter growth rates of 7... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
principal and a rate of return with a portion of the savings. If the predefined social outcomes are not met, the government owes nothing. “What the social impact bond does is enable a social organization to raise capital for preventive... View Details