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- 12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement
diversity, cofounded and catalyzed by HBS grads Brad Gerstner (MBA 2000), CEO of Altimeter Capital Management; Guy Primus (MBA 2000), CEO of Valence; Reese, at the time COO at Gusto; and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, founder and chair of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) After three decades working with executives in scores of private and public companies, Wellspring Capital Management CEO William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) is convinced that “the most successful business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
2020 is this is the time to be creative. What's needed right now? There are things that are standing out that the world or that the economy needs because of this crisis. And there's opportunities to build businesses to address those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
research paper by the inevitable 5pm deadline. Of course, I had edited and printed the paper right up to the last moment. Then I phoned the professor's office to tell them I was coming. The administrative assistant promised to keep the... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
the ESPN galaxy. Likewise with many other behind-the-scenes stories. Since the book was to be a comprehensive history of one of the greatest media successes of all time, it required a thorough examination of the business story behind it.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
Chinese Capitalism, Rithmire examined urbanization, land politics, and property rights in China. She is now exploring how both the government’s goals and the flight of capital figure into China’s increasing... View Details
- 09 Jan 2017
- News
Role Model, Coach, Life Guide, and Cheerleader
Austin Scee (MBA 2001) is the founder and CEO of Razorhorse Capital in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in college and through his time at HBS, he volunteered as a mentor with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of America. In this interview, he talks... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
HBS professor Paul A. Gompers) of two influential books in this field, The Venture Capital Cycle (second edition 2004) and The Money of Invention (2001), Lerner also created the popular second-year elective Venture View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Discovery Channel. As media interest in this odd endeavor increased, a public relations firm joined the growing team, too. And Vescovo needed to know where to dive. He contacted Dr. Alan Jamieson, a deep-oceans expert at Newcastle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of society rather than the narrowly... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
height of the civil rights movement, Thomas-Graham's parents held up Thurgood Marshall and other lawyers as role models who created peaceful change at a time when racial tensions were running high. "Our family heroes were African... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small Company. Several related courses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election but the “employer doesn’t have the right to force one.” The reality is that the only thing companies can “force” is the union’s hand. Does the union truly represent a majority of employees, or are authorization cards obtained... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
right answer.” Dennis coolly came back with, “But you don't get Bingo, do you?” Nothing else was ever said. The Bingo game was terminated, but the memory is very fresh. 1977H played Section Bingo. 1980F played Turkey Bingo. We issued... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
I wanted to be president of a $500 million business, and I achieved that,” he says. “When I left at age 54, there was no great epiphany, although the fact that we sold our subsidiary businesses made it financially easier for me to ‘retire,’ in the old terminology.”... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else fails, a receivership process to restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
yes.” Pasricha, who thinks, writes, and speaks about intentional living, gave the 80 attendees a set of simple coping strategies to remain positive, find rest, and let go of the idea of rushing back to whatever life was before everything changed. “The corporate speak... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
things like the Great Depression, which was another moment when the world stood still, and you had the uncertainty that you see surrounding us right now. So if you take that as a precedent—and put aside World War II for a moment—what that... View Details