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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
directly with smelters, eliminating the need for a middleman. Think of it like eBay but for million-dollar shipments of raw minerals. Intermediaries have long played a key role in these deals because the market for metal concentrates—the... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
fashion, arts and culture, and business and finance. It features guides to each of the continent’s 54 nations, where you can find everything from breaking news to museum guides, as well as content from such partners as the Council on... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
Washington, D.C., Retsinas believes all parties in the housing mess were coconspirators — from lenders that hawked subprime finance deals with microprint caveats, to brokers that turned a blind eye to borrowers’ long-term solvency, to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter Illustration by Anita Kunz Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883–1950), an Austrian who taught at Harvard for twenty years, was “one of the greatest economists who ever lived, and an electrifying personality besides,” writes HBS professor emeritus Thomas K. McCraw... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
because there is absolutely no other thing that compares. And believe me, I’ve tried it all. How to: Break a World Record Our instructor: Ming Chen (MBA 1998), Chief Culture Officer, Education First (EF) When I was in school in New... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
On October 18, 1995, U.S. Army Captain Ray Jefferson was excited about his future. The West Point graduate had eagerly accepted challenging assignments commanding Ranger and Green Beret units in the United States and in Japan. He was a... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
are numerous media accounts of the corporate monolith riding its suppliers into the ground. But what about those who manage to survive, and thrive, while dealing with the classic hardball negotiator? In “Sarah Talley and Frey Farms... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
Bloomberg during an unparalleled career as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and three-term mayor of New York City. “I’ve always believed a good deal is where both parties walk away thinking that they didn’t... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
transformation officer at the Carlyle Group, began work to put all those influencers together in what they called Culture Shifting Weekends, held annually in Silicon Valley and New York City. The idea was to celebrate Culture Shifters and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Ministry of Health to test new policies to improve infant HIV testing. Similar initiatives are under way in Uganda and Cambodia. We are a fee-for-service nonprofit and have received start-up support from the Echoing View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
church, or were married to a neighbor’s daughter. But with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the spread of railroads, newly developed transportation systems expanded the range of business dealings beyond hometown connections. More... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
professional and personal involvement as they embark on their post-MBA careers. Aaron Rudenstine (MBA ’09) New York, NY Curbing Corruption I highly commend the editor for publishing “Show Me the Money” and “M.I.A. Boards” in the June... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Noted & Quoted
“J.C. Penney is in a very tough spot. If you ask people today what it stands for, you don’t get a particularly compelling answer.” —HBS professor Rajiv Lal, commenting on the challenge facing retailing guru Ron Johnson (MBA 1984) as the company’s View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of the communities View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
years—about the time she expects that the next generation of green aircraft will debut. She isn’t sure which of the innovations currently in development—such as planes powered by hydrogen or battery power—will win the race to the runway,... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Margaret Crotty (MBA 2000) is CEO of Partnership with Children, which provides counseling services and family support to public schools in New York City. In this interview, she reflects on the influences that put her on this path. “Two of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
leaders, they argue, acknowledge the first three perils but are crafting unduly soft policies to deal with them. America requires a new security concept, “strategic indepen-dence,” to keep the peace in... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
difficult to reestablish. Still, BCG’s Sirkin is sanguine about U.S. manufacturing. He advises executives considering a new factory in China to export goods to America to carefully consider total costs. “They’re increasingly likely to get... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details