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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The Big Picture While View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
content consumption (e.g., mobile, direct-to-consumer); and realize gains through theNFL Investment Fund, its recent partnership with Providence Equity Partners. Grubman is also heavily involved in the process of investigating whether new... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on behavioral topics, investment management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
David Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus; Herman B. Leonard, George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Public Management and Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration; and Lynn S. Paine, John G. McLean Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
leaders who make a difference. “I don’t regard HBS as a business school,” he explains. “I regard it as a leadership training school.” In the short run, Flannery plans to ply his newly acquired skills in the world of private equity. But... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
leaders to also, driving impact. We've gone through an interesting transition over the last three years. We've shifted the organization from a traditional NGO to still, a not for profit, but a partnership. We've grown the partnership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
private investment," says Bloom. "Fortune 500 companies have told us that they read our scorecards every year." In countries where the MCC operates, a government entity implements the program agenda, in addition to monitoring progress and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
will complement the skills and wisdom the fellows acquired during their “first” careers in the public and private sectors. “People who have accomplished a great deal during their careers are uniquely suited... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
product of the GPP’s Substance Abuse Research Alliance (SARA), an affiliate group of 150 researchers, public officials, and practitioners all working to turn the rising tide of deaths from opioid overdose. Langford, here for the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
in engineering and public policy, for assistance in setting up the organization. The Arctic Ice Project’s research focuses on materials-based solutions to ice loss—basically, substances that can mimic the beneficial reflective properties... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Feb 2018
- News
A ‘Hopeaholic’ Promotes Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality in the Workplace
Leadership & Policy, and, Harvard Business School’s Board of Dean’s Advisors. “I am a ‘hopeaholic’,” she says. “My hope and goal is that through acknowledging bias and the willingness to work to block it, the public and View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
liquid hydrogen rocket engine that was subsequently used in many of the major space exploration programs, and Fern taught in the first public high school in Palm Beach County to be integrated.” One of the goals the couple had when they... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Keeping the Faith
It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details