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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Michael and I think about that question,” says Gordon, adding that with the privileges they’ve had, if they don’t take risks in life, they’re wasting it. So, yeah, maybe her parents think she’s a little bit... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
was the kind of place in which an internal memo might list people on a first-name basis. But it has since grown into a massive organization, with vast logistics and all the risk that comes with that. McKenna... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
juggernaut.” While much has changed for Goldman and other investment firms in the last year, its rise to prominence — driven by extraordinary individuals — is a matter of record. The following excerpts from The Partnership look at two of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
endow a chair at the School. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked for a number of years at Unibanco, Brazil's third largest bank, including service as executive director. In 1983, he and three partners founded Pactual,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Disaster Master
comes to preparing for a disaster, what percentage of time should be spent on proactive vs. reactive activities? —Maxeme Tuchman (MBA 2012) BEER: It’s difficult to break it down in terms of percentage, because it’s so dependent on the industry View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
that pose no systemic risk should face relatively light regulation, ensuring their continued dynamism and innovation. If Moss’s tough love approach to the biggest financial institutions sounds familiar,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
get. Our intelligence community has become too risk averse, and we've erected legal barriers that prevent us from dealing with the very kind of unsavory individuals who have access to the sort of information... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
productivity. Professor Lerner and his coauthor show how legal changes initiated in the 1980s converted the system from a stimulator of innovation to a creator of litigation and View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
stuff in a box and ship directly to customers. Well, there’s a lot of uncertainty in that project, right? I don’t know if I can make the mattress. I don’t know if people will buy it online without trying it... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Why Do We Tax? With the next President set to take office, it's time to ask how the income tax system could be improved. Assistant Professor Matthew Weinzierl suggests how. US Competitiveness at Risk America's declining global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
better cope with risk and uncertainty and increase collaborative problem-solving and sharing of knowledge... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
Program. In the wake of economic uncertainties over the past quarter-century in Japan, and the disasters of 2011, Sato is helping HBS faculty to recognize the country’s burgeoning entrepreneurial spirit as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
believes the key to making better strategic choices in turbulent markets lies in understanding the level of uncertainty faced in a given situation. 20/20 Foresight provides a framework for learning to separate what can be known from what... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
critical performance variables are we tracking? What strategic boundaries have we set? How are we generating creative tension? How committed should our employees be to helping each other? And what strategic View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
Denial won’t work. It failed us in the past (remember all those lawmakers’ promises through the boom years that Fannie and Freddie enjoyed no federal guarantee); and it will inevitably fail us again. The... View Details