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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
wit and insight.” —Assistant Professor Ariel Stern, on Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World, by Mark Miodownik Quoted “I think that having someone from the outside buy Talabat was better for the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
to check on them, posting videos, delivering groceries, dropping off yarn for knitters who are making blankets to give to new babies in the community. We've also been able to provide some direct cash assistance grants, mostly to help... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
retired and who can have financial security in their golden years because their finances were managed well. It could be a young person buying their first stock. It could be a small-business owner needing capital. If those people couldn’t... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
33-year-old Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) is making his name on: It presents Armstrong, typically portrayed as a postage-stamp hero, as a complex man who staked a nation’s place on the moon—and in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
is that the majority of local residents have come to share our objectives. How did you raise the money to build the cathedral? In 1995, my HBS education and corporate financial experience were central to persuading commercial lenders that it was a good business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Lee-Chin, chairman and CEO of AIC, a Canadian mutual fund company. “Our behavior today will be our history tomorrow,” Chin said. “We have to make sure it is well written.” Panels included alumni from recent MBA classes discussing the ups... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this area was about the outbound... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
letting your convictions guide an urgent effort to do right by everyone. We used federal money and funds from the Dalio Foundation (Ray Dalio, MBA 1973) to buy 121,000 laptops and became the first state to close the digital divide for all... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
everyone is trying to reach the same goal, but contributing in different ways, or if you’re trying to make a transaction with another company, inevitably the process works,” says Callahan. That approach plays out every day that Sail to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
space they occupy, what they sound like. All these interactions make changes to your brain—specifically in the neocortex, the vast portion (about 70 percent) near the front of the skull that is responsible for giving us logic, reason,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
mountaineers, and they were having a hard time finding good climbing gear from Europe. And so they formed a buying cooperative mainly to support their friends from The Mountaineers so they had better gear to go out and explore the... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
making big real estate bets that could shape the city’s future. He’s all in on Detroit. You could say Cummings married into Detroit: His father-in-law was Max Fisher, a pillar of the business and philanthropic communities known as “Mr.... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
What Barna wasn’t fully prepared for, though, was the additional obstacles that came from fundraising while female. “Trying to explain the needs and consumer behavior of women buying beauty products to investors who are predominantly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
changing too quickly for arm-chair strategizing to be useful. As a consequence, many management teams are stuck in a wait-and-see posture in response to extreme uncertainty in the post-COVID environment, while others are making panicky... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
his leadership team weighed that risk with the reward: the opportunity to prove the value of its mRNA platform, bring its first commercial vaccine to market three or four years faster than anticipated, and make history. As of August 31,... View Details