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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
and guesswork. This theory enabled options transactors to take much bigger positions because they were hedged; they could be much more efficient, and they could control their risk much better. If you look at the last 25 years of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
contractions could be more severe since there are fewer governmental controls and safety nets than in other countries. The second quarter of this year provided a "correction" in U.S. equity markets, and a lot of dot-coms have become... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
finances dwindled. Finally, at age 12, after years of physical therapy combined with advances in medication, Massie walked away from his wheelchair and cumbersome leg braces. To this day, however, he must cope with pain and self-inject medication almost daily to View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
here, Whillans offers straightforward strategies for gaining control over that most precious asset of all. Beware of time confetti. Our near-constant connection to technology leads to social media and email disruptions and “time... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
about their colleagues, jobs, and life outside work. “Management, then, was not about controlling human behavior but unleashing human possibility,” as HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana and HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby write... View Details
- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
convenience items, including DVD rentals. By 2005, McDonald’s had allowed Kaplan to spin off Redbox and seek outside investors for the business (which came to focus exclusively on DVD rentals); in 2009, McDonald’s sold its share to Coinstar, an early investor that now... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
discounts, we hand over our zip codes or email addresses at the checkout counter. We rail about the NSA while carrying tracking devices—our smartphones—in our pockets. What seems to matter most to us is choice: Most people are willing to sacrifice privacy so long as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
and opportunities it would pose,” said McFarlan, a student in the first class Dearden taught at the School. Dearden chaired the Control faculty from 1968 to 1970 and served three times as head of the required first-year MBA course in that... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
New York office or local branches. In 1849, Tappan sold the agency to an associate, Benjamin Douglass, who in 1859 ceded control of the firm to his brother-in-law, Robert Graham Dun. That same year, coded reference books with condensed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Park City before we manufacture. Having that added measure of control is huge. Is control an elusive goal in such a fast-growing company? Being in a growing company can be uncomfortable sometimes, because... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
consolidation. During the period 1897Ð1904 alone, 4,227 American companies were merged into 257 combinations, sometimes forcibly. By 1904, some 318 large firms were alleged to control about 40 percent of the entire nation's manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
O’Kelly’s mind, as is, ironically, maintaining balance in her own life. “Amid ups and downs, I do feel like I’m achieving it,” says O’Kelly, who declined venture capital funding so that she could maintain more control over how quickly the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ted Anthony
for it was apparent that a substantial portion of the Business School population was present." The students' May 12 program included constructive discussions on topics ranging from riot control techniques to the social and political... View Details
Keywords: Ted Anthony
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
increase established for the MBA class that entered the School in September 2002. In response to the revenue shortfall, the School implemented vigorous cost controls, made all the more challenging because of the fixed-cost nature of educational institutions. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
creative tension of competition and cooperation.... We are now in the grip of another agricultural revolution in which Elite Capital takes control of the food chain. It is false to argue that intensification is needed to feed the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
executives. (HBS Archives Photograph Collection) Professor Dick Vancil published more than 20 books during his tenure at HBS and became an expert on how large corporations choose chief executives. (HBS Archives Photograph Collection) Our first class was called... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
age of innovation. There are people all over the country in universities and colleges who are actually doing research and conducting randomized control trials to determine what solutions work and what solutions don't work. And that's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
to her corner office and its view of midtown Manhattan. “Take your time. You lose control of your life as you move up the ladder. Most people think it’s the opposite.” That said, Moore worries that the leadership positions in society... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
concentrating its control in the hands of a single member of the firm, the three founders agreed to create a series of overlapping funds. Each general partner could then take responsibility for running one of them, with input from his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that I don’t have complete control of. The notion that there would be very intelligent people doing very complicated things six and a half days a week, and I would come in on a periodic basis and tell them how to do it better, I don’t... View Details