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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and the moral hazard associated with that. Or the additional capital and regulatory requirements will put these firms at a disadvantage relative to their competitors, and you will have weakened the firms that you believe to be systemically significant. Neither is a... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
Swearengin and a friend cofounded the Downtown Giants, Manhattan’s only public youth football team. Many of Swearengin’s HBS classmates provided annual support for the Downtown Giants’ scholarship program, which allowed children from all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headquarters, where Skullcandy creates and markets high-quality, boldly designed headphones, earbuds, speaker docks, iPhone/iPod accessories, and clothing. What’s this first year as CEO been like? We went public in July 2011, a few months... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
Florida, in 1998. That experience was an excellent proving ground for the level of detail and oversight involved in building the new Busch Stadium. In an era that has seen a number of sports facilities built with public funds, nearly 90... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Jacobs (MBA 2007), working at the international organization reflected a choice: to do innovative work and “to feel good about waking up to go there every day,” as he puts it. The team of 260 in Portland supports more than 5,000 others... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
silence. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. It changed who I was. It literally changed who I was. Learning to operating and leading in two languages that you did not understand. I was operating from a deficit at day one and it took me a View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
employment were dim after decades of making madeleines in one of Caen’s last factories, a building that had survived two world wars. The occupation was widely covered in the French media, with public sentiment favoring the no-nonsense... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental concerns in business, nonprofit... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
ALS is a good investment for them, the market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do in decades.” Using a prize model, Prize4Life essentially “pays for results,” says Kremer’s friend, classmate, and board member... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
colors, patterns, swatches of fabric, and garment samples assembled to plan Old Navy’s fall 2005 clothing lines. Ross, casually dressed in a style reflective of Old Navy’s “democratic” approach to fashion, notes that such public displays... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
books in the library (answer: very), to whether more space was needed (absolutely), to debates about how much of the original structure should be preserved (a good bit). A task force set out to investigate the current and future needs of... View Details
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
Blogs have long since come into their own. After all, they’ve been around since 1994, and just recently a blogger received the George Polk Award for excellence in journalism. So it seems a good time to recognize blogs by HBS alums and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
good at it. Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA 1972) (Potomac Books) Every four years Americans embark on the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
much time apart, and, two, this is not the life that we had imagined for ourselves in terms of having a really good partnership and thinking about starting a family,” Gordon says. Gordon’s deep network allows her to provide clients with... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
(MBA 1950). “I learned a lot at Preco,” says Stevenson, who spent four years at the company. “Meeting payrolls, dealing with unions, learning accounting, all in a less-than-glamorous environment — it was a good education.” As Stevenson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good governments as well as investing in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
splashing all over my laptop, and I think, that can't be good for a computer. So I'm swerving to avoid some jerk who doesn't realize that a yellow light means "speed up," and I'm trying to put the roof up on the car, and I look at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
things,” Benihana ads promised). Illustration by PJ Loughran After reading in a trade publication about Benihana’s innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
quality and outcomes. Consumers need to have that information to make good decisions.” Jain believes that any health-care system should center on a strong doctor-patient relationship and allow physicians sufficient time and opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice