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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
single-family houses—the largest strictly single-family housing market in the country,” Rhea explains. Lafayette Park, the Detroit neighborhood where he grew up in the 1970s, is one of the few exceptions. Populated with high rises and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Professor of Management. In 1988, he joined the HBS faculty. Merton's research is focused on developing finance theory in the areas of capital markets and financial institutions. Along with fellow Nobel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top marginal tax rate from 35 percent to... View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
company’s director of marketing and is now brand manager for a large, national product line. He’s interested in either starting or acquiring his own company when the opportunity presents itself; the family company will provide the View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
which was sourcing originals for its new hotel in Oakland, for example, and a florist who was staging a large-scale but short-term installation at Instagram’s headquarters. At first Giridharadas was simply hoping to build a better market... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
International in the early 70s, is that right? FL: Yes. We decided to use our precious capital to make a toe hole position in a troubled airline. And the most trouble at that time was Texas International, the smallest of the 18 airlines.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Focusing on miniaturization, Sony became the first mass marketer of small transistor radios and followed with the development of the first transistor-based microtelevision set. Then came the Walkman, the basic VCR, the CD, the CD-ROM, the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
the market isn’t ready or willing to accept it. These are the day-to-day questions constantly being evaluated, but sometimes it takes sitting down, forcing yourself to unplug, or sinking additional capital... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
first became interested in marketing and retailing while in college, working part-time at Bloomingdale’s and then in a New York buying office for a large group of department stores. After earning an MBA (1954) and DBA (1960) at HBS, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
Curtis-Bey Photo courtesy of Sarah Curtis-Bey Sarah Curtis-Bey (SVMP 1997, MBA 2006) Executive Director, Clinique Global Marketing New York City "SVMP was a major driver of my decision to pursue a career in business and an MBA at Harvard.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
28 publicly listed Tata enterprises, with a combined market capitalization of some $100 billion. Tata Group companies, taken together, had total revenues of $67.4 billion in 2009–10, 57 percent of which... View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
of risk capital are contributing increasingly to a massive expansion in new business, all underpinned by a deep social change and a willingness to “do things differently,” especially among the young. Drawing on his experiences and more... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and the free View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent stock View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides that have hitherto been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during the current stock View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and venture... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
crisis. The program featured speakers Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at HBS, and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who talked about their latest books, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, and IMPACT:... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
to satisfy a greater overall demand for coverage focusing on the intersection of political and economic issues. That shift is reflected in Capital Report and other new programming launched in February, which also includes more live,... View Details