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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
opportunities, and business models were discussed. The next series of panels considered topics that included start-ups in Asia and the Internet and entrepreneurship in Japan. Saturday's lunchtime keynote speaker was Guangshao Tu, CEO of the Shanghai View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
problem is likely to get worse because of a widening income gap and a shrinking stock of low-income units. As a result, business may eventually have to take a more proactive stance, as it has with education and health care, using its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
to 9/11/01. More than three thousand people from eighty countries perish on a single day in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. On the heels of that horrific tragedy, this year's subsequent business headlines have been dominated by news of an economic... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
effect on global enterprise." "How great are the security costs— at global, national, organizational, and personal levels— needed to achieve the 'peace of mind' with which we did business on September 10?" Heskett asked, and he received many thoughtful responses. On... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune 500/New York View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
for commercial, institutional, and custom residential construction. Kirlin has created lighting for a range of famous customers, including the New York Stock Exchange, Google, Boeing, San Francisco’s BART public-transportation system,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
and for investors, who’ve sent water-related stocks soaring 113 percent over the last five years. As replacement costs for old facilities and equipment combine with increasingly stringent and expensive regulations, more and more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
those traders’ companies were then paying $20,000 a month. Parker thought he could provide a better service for $500 a month. He was proposing to sell $100,000 worth of debentures and stock representing 10 percent of the company, giving... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
the way we were. I had developed a strategy of get smaller, get bigger, or M&A, and we tried all three of them. M&A was sort of natural to us. Bob Carney and I were financial guys to some extent, and we weren't afraid of the marketplace, and we were the first... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
accomplished they are. But it's really writing those checks. A lot of the guys that I know, who I went to school with, who I love, are just—certainly in my experience—this is more qualitative than quantitative in my view—are just more comfortable investing their own... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
as a Baker Scholar, in his spare time Rogers honed a system for trading over-the-counter stocks and left HBS with his bills paid and $50,000 in the bank. Eager to return to the Bay Area where he grew up, Rogers accepted a job offer from... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
pond: “The great thing about working in finance in India was the opportunity to influence the evolution of the country’s financial institutions and regulatory structures. Very early on, I was part of the group that helped set up a second, more modern View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
companies (in terms of both stock market and accounting measures) that adopted almost none of these policies. Energized by Eccles’s work, the effort to advance integrated corporate reporting as a vehicle for transforming capitalism is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
professor Quinn Mills dissects the other half of the artificially supported 1990s bull market in Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms. This time around, he focuses on large corporations that fattened View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Stock market is better. The unemployment rate is down. The borders are more secure. ISIS looks more vulnerable. We have a phenomenal Supreme Court Justice. I mean, I can go on and on and on. And Congress, including the Republicans are in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Reinventing Dell: The Innovation Imperative by Heather Simmons (MBA 1990) (Murmurous Publishing) This book tells the inside story of one of tech’s most intriguing giants. Simmons asks: How did Dell go from one of the most admired companies in the world to a firm whose... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna