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February 2008 (Revised May 2008)
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Tad O'Malley: The Investment Conundrum

By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Tad O'Malley has just started as an associate with Empire Investment Group. He must evaluate three investment opportunities facing the big leveraged buyout firm. All are global, but each pertains to different offices and each deal has different strengths and... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Strength and Weakness; Negotiation Deal; Personal Development and Career

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08 Sep 2016
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4 Unexpected Things I Learned at HBS

choice to pursue an MBA not only to grow my business skillset but also to explore other career paths that would become available upon graduating from HBS. When I arrived to HBS, I (like most classmates)... View Details

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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

the complexities of balancing work and life. One particularly impactful moment was meeting Qasar Younis (MBA 2008), CEO of Applied Intuition. His perspective on career choices left a lasting impression for... View Details

07 Nov 2024
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Exploring California’s Climate Frontier: E&E Club’s Bay Area Trek

manufacturing process—from raw metal sheets to fully assembled vehicles—allows the company to streamline operations and move quickly to meet demand. The level of automation throughout the plant was remarkable, showcasing how Tesla’s strategic View Details

20 Sep 2013
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Connections Add Up

lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

16 Feb 2021
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The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard

so it took time for me to feel confident in my appearance,” Girard explained. “I found my place and my confidence after I became an athlete.” Girard was not just any athlete either, her athletic ability and drive led her to a professional volleyball View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

distinguished career of more than thirty years. That first position gave her a variety of experiences, from line operations to staff management, and soon she was one of the first college-educated women to enter the company's fast track to... View Details

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Benjamin Story

Imagineering, which in turn became Ben's career after college. "It was a departure from theater as an art form," Ben says, "but an extension of my skill sets in production management." Among his responsibilities, Ben... View Details

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Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog

limits growth and what are its downsides? What limits a manager's degrees of freedom when developing strategy or changing strategy? When should you change your strategy? How do all these considerations affect a company's choice of... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

required. This year MBA Admissions has launched a new initiative to attract potential applicants who might not automatically include HBS in their career plans. Targeted to reach alumni, colleges, and companies worldwide, the effort seeks... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

also apparent using only portfolio investment responses to within-country corporate tax rate changes in a panel from 1994 to 2005. Investors appear to alter their portfolio choices to circumvent home and host country institutional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

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Linda Leung

California, Berkeley, she realized she did not want to make physics her career. “Science in theory,” Linda says, “was more interesting to me than science in practice. As a career scientist, I wouldn’t be able to create the kind of... View Details

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Fereshteh Zeineddin

family settled in Vancouver in 1994. She considers herself extremely fortunate to have been exposed to three distinct cultures. "I love people, I love learning about the world by listening to their life experiences," says Fereshteh. "To prepare myself... View Details

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Carol Lauson

her major in college and worked full-time doing accounting for a small business. But by the time she graduated, "I wanted to do more planning and analysis." Carol's subsequent career took her through a financial rotational... View Details

21 Aug 2015
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My Fear of Student Debt: Funding the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

years instead of the traditional two years for an MBA or MPP alone. I also knew I wanted to start or join an early stage and socially focused venture after graduation that would likely not pay me as well as some more traditional post-MBA View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Learning from the Past

works know themselves less well than they might, and to their cost." Strassler credits his successful business career with giving him the time and wherewithal to undertake and finance the project. In 1963, he and his associates took over... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

10 Dec 2015
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Working with Professors at HBS

Prior to joining the HBS Class of 2014, I worked in strategy and planning at HBO and spent a summer at Univision in the office of the CEO. Media has been my industry of choice ever since I was exposed to it in high school through the... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992,... View Details

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

Yet, such episodes also create business opportunities – and not just for the hedge funds and speculators that profit from them. Managers that have and use a coherent framework for understanding and analyzing these phenomena will enjoy a competitive advantage. View Details

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