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- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Twin brothers Kenny and Sean Salas (both MBA 2015) grew up with firsthand... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she launched Walden View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
second edition, The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, delivers a groundbreaking examination of one of the most consequential crises in financial history. Deftly weaving historical evidence,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
2020 Vision
When it comes to setting personal goals, Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA ’98) aims high: Her ambition is to become, like another notable HBS alum, President of the United States, most likely in 2020. (For those with a similar aspiration and timetable, recall that she will... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
about how things could be done better. That’s definitely outside of your purview as a portfolio manager.” Tiller saw a need to diversify away from oil, not in 50 or 100 years, but right now, for the sake of the environment and national... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
ensures an intervention reaches all those who need it, at the lowest price and in the shortest amount of time." Could a similar, market-driven approach be enlisted in the world's fight against disease and illness? As Chu notes, commerce... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
economies, that financial data often doesn’t exist. Without a way to evaluate credit applicants, lenders are not inclined to make the type of small-business loans—for instance, just $5,000 for working View Details
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
hundreds of cases, HBS students are trained to view every business situation as open to improvement, and therefore an opportunity to build a new or better product or service. HBS alumni even have gone on to create entire industries, such as venture View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Business as a Force for Good in Society
Illustration by Dana Smith In a world facing myriad complex challenges, Harvard Business School is actively exploring how capitalism is working, what leadership role business can and should play in making it work better, and how business... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
“We know the industry is changing and we need to become very good global thinkers. The risk of not acting is even bigger.” After kicking the case around, talk turned to the pending role play and the best ways to make it a valuable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Ford’s Premier group (including brands such as Volvo, Jaguar, Aston Martin, and Land Rover). With this wealth of international experience, when asked to identify essential “global management” qualities and skills, Fields replies, “Strong global leaders View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
And his afterlife: “When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: ‘I won’t need / an attack dog, thank you. I married one.’” Mergers and Acquisitions: Integration and Transformation Management as the Gateway to Success by... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
In this special First Five Years post, four alumni recently named to the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list—Akash Pradhan (MBA 2017), Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015), Anthony Tucker (MBA 2017), and Anish Pathipati (MBA 2016)—talk careers, HBS, and why you View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
technologies need to be operated at is enormous. It's at the scale of the biggest thing that humankind has ever done, at the scale of oil and gas exploration, going to the moon. These are enormous undertakings both from an engineering,and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
absence of investment opportunities or from indecision among corporate executives. Once such indecision becomes widespread, it can quickly become self-reinforcing. Recent record corporate profits will only exacerbate this situation. If chief executives and chief View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Christine Fairchild to Head External Relations
equal measures on the capital campaign and the entire External Relations organization.” Melnick first came to HBS as a research associate in 1986. He joined the Financial Office in 1992 as assistant director... View Details