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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
HBSAA of Israel Sponsors Middle East Outreach
population of just six million, Israel now has more stocks listed on the Nasdaq than any other country except the United States and Canada. And as the peace process continues, business opportunities in the Middle East are expanding." To... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
microprocessors. Equally important, the idea of stock options for employees and the use of venture capital financing became a standard part of the nascent high-technology industry. As one of the founding fathers of venture capital - and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
Marjorie Alfus, a retired Kmart executive who now concentrates on the real-estate and stock markets; the Committee of 200 (C200), a national organization of women business executives; and the School. "Women, no matter what their level of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
software producer, ParaGraph International. In just sixteen months he secured stock options for all employees, increased overall revenues by 110 percent, and won over big clients such as Disney, Microsoft, and Apple. When ParaGraph was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
fire alarm, security, and data lines — which is expected to grow to $10 million. For the employees, a stock ownership plan is in the works. “I want it to be a flourishing company that I’ll feel really proud of twenty years from now,”... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors
associated with the loss of position renders the director no longer qualified to serve, the message to the outside world is that board membership is geared to the position, not the person. Stated another way, the apparent objective is to have a board View Details
Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
a historical database of banking, stock market, and currency crises in more than 60 countries since 1800. In addition to regular meetings among the Harvard-based scholars, the project organizes occasional conferences and invites renown-... View Details
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
breakfast buffet available in the recruiters’ lounge (the students have a space of their own, stocked with the quantity and variety of snacks and caffeinated beverages such a situation demands). I’m curious about this annual ritual, which... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
businesses were monetized, and we were able to focus exclusively on Panera. As we went through a year and a half of divestitures, our stock sank to a split-adjusted $3 a share. Those were not happy times. What’s your View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
common cyclical nature, whether the crash in question was fueled by land speculation, railroad expansion, the booming life insurance industry, or lax regulation of regional stock exchanges. So, will a deeper understanding of these moments... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS
of active partnership with the School that makes HBS unique among educational institutions.” Light said the School’s 100th anniversary in 2008 would be “an opportunity to do just that, as well as take stock of what we want HBS to be in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
on the cover of Time, with the magazine proclaiming, perhaps somewhat prematurely, that the mutual fund was "a household word.") Historically, the mutual fund industry's fortunes have risen and fallen with the stock market. After the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
Moldow Photo Courtesy Charles Moldow Last spring, my husband, Charles Moldow (MBA ’93), and I attended our 15th HBS reunion. Suffice it to say, it was rather different from our 5th. At that time, I was newly married; had a fabulous job investing in Internet View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
emerging economies. Huang's observations came on the first day of the seminar, which centered on the architecture of financial systems. Enrico Perotti of the University of Amsterdam discussed a related topic - how to build confidence in emerging View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
risky, stock market gyrations were so extreme, or money-market funds started “breaking the buck.” By helping Americans put some of their refunds aside in convenient, inflation-indexed savings bonds, the Treasury would be better off too:... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Finding Her Place
Academy, an intensive job-skills training program for residents. They are also exploring new options for donors, including giving stock and cryptocurrency. Hudson also has learned a lot from the nonprofit world, she says, because it... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff
life,” explains Wulff. When he makes additions to the trust, Wulff uses long-term, appreciated stock for a double tax benefit. He avoids paying the capital gain and qualifies for a charitable income tax deduction. “A trust enabled us to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
who are doing the actual work what they think about a problem and how they would solve it. They are much more likely to come up with solutions because they've got the experience. It's just that no one ever asks them." Hawes's belief in the individual led him to give... View Details