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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Drawing on his extensive research on a subject he calls his "passion" - customer loyalty - Sasser led a lively discussion on the topic of customer retention that included a videotaped segment on... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
ambitious, alumni-led space program gets off the ground An Alumni Club for the Cosmos But sending a rocket into space and landing it back on Earth wasn’t just an important internal milestone for Blue Origin or a memorable life experience... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
top of the curve, the learnings are humility and a sense of proportion. Because the thing you know is you’re coming down. At the bottom of the curve, what you know is it will turn again.” Long-Term Investment “If you can get people to... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
commandments by God to serve the poor.” Crane led Opportunity International until 2009, after growing private revenues by 30 percent, compound annual growth rate, and increasing its client base from 375,000 to 1.5 million. He also walked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
associate dean for International Development at HBS, and a member of Satyam’s board. Palepu recalls that he was intrigued by the idea, but skeptical that it would work. But where Palepu saw potential obstacles, Raju simply saw management... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
out how business can do things better. This is a major international problem, and it will need a framework of policies to make a big difference.” Pat Coady, an investment banker and environmentalist who... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
pitch. For Adidas CEO Robert Louis-Dreyfus, a Frenchman and a soccer fan extraordinaire, the outcome of the Cup competition could not have been sweeter. With his company having invested $100 million in Cup-related marketing and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
you with a stinging rebuke. When informed that his demand for a 30 percent annual return was unrealistic, despite assurances to the contrary from his bank’s investment adviser, the retiree groused: “If you guys from Harvard Business... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
investment bank Bpifrance’s incubator space “Le Hub,” where the three teams pitched their concepts before a panel of 11 HBS alumni judges and a crowd of more than 100 alumni, family and friends. In the end, Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016)... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs
Charlotte, North Carolina, where Socarras is vice president for sales and marketing at Afton Village, a mixed-use real estate development company. “It was a pretty intense course, a lot of work, but I invested in something I really... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
required of top candidates prior to admission. No one is accepted without one. “Interviewing has been a big investment for us, but we think it’s worth it for two reasons,” Dewey explains. “First, it helps us as part of the evaluation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
of the kiosks the company initially rolled out. Where they are today: Lovepop, which gained publicity and an investment from an appearance on Shark Tank, has grown significantly in employees, revenue, and card production in the last year... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in economics, followed by a master's in environment and development at the London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
you anywhere. In addition, you need courage— courage to make difficult decisions, for example, and courage to oppose something if your conscience tells you that you are right." CURRENT READING A wide range of magazines on politics, the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
available until late 2006, and Herp figured the small turboprop would be a good means of testing his idea in the marketplace. Linear Air began by offering point-to-point service to over 500 cities in the Northeast, the Mid-Atlantic, eastern Canada, and the Caribbean.... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
computer industries, in which interfirm and international rivalries are intense. The other three consortia - Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Gas Research Institute (GRI), and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) - draw their... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneur into a successful business leader. In this book, Jan Simon, Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital and Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School, presents a best-practices-based roadmap for... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives, advising on transactions valued at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
the international economy. The new MBA Program, with its year-round calendar, features a greatly increased emphasis on skill-building and field-based learning delivered within a more integrated, cross-functional context. Part of what made... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice