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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time, but Europe (even the United... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
and marketing initiative for the program, as well as working on broadening the Mayor’s overall social media strategy. Following his fellowship, Koh went to work at the Huffington Post, but his heart remained in Boston City Hall. “This... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
dominance of corporate icons such as Heinz, Coca-Cola, General Motors, NCR, and Procter & Gamble. Chapters on the 20th century consider how mass production, mass media, and technology have influenced the way goods are marketed and sold.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
early and regularly. According to a recent study, she said, 88 percent of American women invest primarily in low-yield vehicles such as savings accounts and CDs, none of which outpaces inflation. By not entering the more high-yield world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an additional $2.5 million in venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
management,” declares HBS professor John Quelch, an expert in international marketing and business development. He describes this style as an amalgam, built atop a U.S. model that has borrowed freely from others around the world. “With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
Illustration by Brown Bird Design Walk the streets of New York City around the first of the month, and you’ll see the symptoms: orphaned couches, credenzas, and swivel chairs that were left behind after a move. The problem, according to Daniel Ramírez Yunqué (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
professional esports players and amateur gamers streaming video game play. By year’s end, market analyst Newzoo forecasts, the online global esports audience will reach 385 million people with revenues of nearly $700 million. But if all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Business Roundtable was no less emphatic. “This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
dumped into Iraq after the overthrow of the regime. It was the main market for cars coming from the Gulf area. It was a very, very scruffy and dirty town. As we moved up into Iraq proper, we followed the main north-south Euphrates... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
wrongdoers were just a disparate collection of lone bad actors on the corporate stage. End of story. Alternatively, the scandals reflected something systemic and pervasive in American business culture, with the trail winding its way back... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
today's government for the better. Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company By Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) with Amy Wallace Simon & Schuster In September 2001, Jeff Immelt replaced the most famous CEO in history, Jack Welch,... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
marketed credit cards for Chemical Bank, then MasterCard. But she always found time to volunteer, recording books for the visually impaired, and reading to elementary school students on her lunch hour. A change in management at MasterCard... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
relative handful of African Americans and women on campus daily confronted cultural problems that could not be solved with a slide rule and pencil. READ MORE Steve Belkin Eve Benton Mike Feeley Ed Mathias Joe O'Donnell READ MORE Steve... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
little bit about how American women basketball players began playing professionally in Europe? Levy: Well, it happened like this. There were leagues in Europe-- very amateur except that the players would get paid modest sums. And no one... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
management methods in American business," finished fourth, followed by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, whose "computers enabled the automation of well-informed decision-making, allowing business and the work force to migrate from manual labor in... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
objectives. Identifying how to best achieve our mutual objectives can be challenging, but also provides a great learning and growth opportunity.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in this position? “In some way or other, every class I took at HBS has been... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon hats some of the wealthiest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The charter school movement was supposed to transform American public education. So far, though, the results have been mixed. But HBS grads nationwide are offering new approaches, innovative methods, unique models—all of them begging the... View Details