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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
1934. His mother died when he was four, after giving birth to his brother, and his father was killed by the Nazis as an active underground opponent at the end of World War II. Raised by his stepmother, Andresen served as an apprentice and later attended a View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
ever to win the honor, which he shares with Myron S. Scholes of Stanford University. Merton, the School's George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration, joins more than thirty Harvard University faculty members who have won a... View Details
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
depended on bank loans instead of equity, creating the illusion that money was in infinite supply. That led Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to make bad investments. I decided we should do something about them immediately." As a... View Details
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Elsa Sze
afford when he was young,” she says. But Elsa believes her gratitude cannot be fulfilled by what she accomplishes for herself alone. “I don’t want to work just for my kids, but for all kids, so that everyone has an opportunity to succeed.” After completing her BA in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
the confidence to move forward in my studies and in my career. After graduating with my MBA, I earned a JD from Georgetown in 1980, followed by two PhDs from UCLA in 1996 and 2001. I served as dean at the University of Hawaii Law School... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
educational programs and from around the world. In any given year, about 5 percent of HBS MBA students are military—active duty, reservist, or veteran. The relationship between the military and Harvard University is often viewed by the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
interviewing and tracking subscribers and customers on behalf of clients in publishing and other industries. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife and three children. Since his college days at the University of Massachusetts,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
Town From Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By Michel Anteby The campus's plantings and buildings contrast sharply with the banks of the nearby river. A pedestrian entering the campus suddenly... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
afloat, but just barely. The banks were recapitalized three times, and Greece lost a full quarter of its GDP, which—like the brain drain of about 420,000 Greeks who left the country to seek employment elsewhere—has yet to come back. Those... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
Case 707-559 Describes the joint efforts of the German health plan KKH and Essen University Hospital to develop an integrated practice unit (IPU), and the West German Headache Center's efforts to improve the quality of migraine care.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
institutions themselves are changing so dramatically - just look, for example, at the transformation of banks and insurance companies in the last couple of decades - we can't expect them to be our analytical anchors. Instead, we've... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
and wellness consumer. Connection and Inspiration: The Power of the HBS Network Twist’s interest in the consumer experience has been a foundation for her career. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, she began her career... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
very sophisticated economy with some of the most educated and most successful business people in the world," Kirby continues. "But they will only be leaders if the Chinese government steps back." He is the T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and she wanted to continue building her career in business. She also had a yearning to uncover her passion, and so exposure to different industries and business challenges through the case study method... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (e.g., in stores that are far from headquarters or that serve repeat customers). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 The Stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
Monetary Fund and an economics professor at Harvard University; Brent Neiman, a professor at the University of Chicago; and Jenny Tang, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Danielle Kost... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to invest the private... View Details