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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
follows that our potential to develop a particular disease will matter less and less to insurers. The general consensus, however, is that new legislation will be required in the meantime for this and a host... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2017
- News
Radical Generosity for the Real World
thoughts about giving. Campbell: Yes, that was another profound experience. So yes, our church had made a $1,000 investment in 1970 that became a $1.6 million windfall, in 2014. And so the very first thing... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Henry M. Paulson Jr., MBA 1970
and motivating others to do difficult and important things.” Hank Paulson’s leadership spans the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. During... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Indonesian operations during the Asian financial crisis. "With our merger, Novartis associates had to respond flexibly and rapidly to deep change," says Vasella, who now serves on the HBS Board of Directors... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
This is a huge opportunity, but the window is going to close. They have to move quickly." Venkatesan knows his message may strike some as zealous, but he's fine with that. "I'm doing it because I love my country," he says. "We need more companies to come View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
kid-pleasing category of electronic toy. The LeapPad took the dusty, flash-card connotations out of the term “educational toy” and launched a new, highly successful product line of “smart toys.” LeapFrog did what no View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
consolidating that structure. Congress outlawed mandatory retirement ages in 1986 (with exceptions for safety-related roles like air-traffic controller). Australia and Canada have similar laws. So in those countries, at least, retirement... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
name is Lloyd Baroody, I’m in the MBA Class of 1977. So obviously based on my age, I've been through a lot of crises, and I have to say that this one, the COVID, was very different than the others because in... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from technology to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
headlines and rack up revenues in the billions, a number of smaller U.S. companies — some publicly traded, others privately owned — refuse to be overshadowed. However modest their comparative size, their... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
concluded, was the cross-disciplinary nature of the work undertaken. "It involved HBS collaborators from many fields talking constantly with each other and working to produce new research, new cases View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
Harris on the steps of Harlem's St. Charles Borromeo Church On a summer day in 1983, Carla Ann Harris (MBA ’87) stood before an audience of East Germans in a Leipzig church. Well before the Berlin Wall came down, Harris and View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
one would be willing to invest in research for fear that imitators who had not spent a dime on R&D would become competitors and drive down profits. By protecting innovations, patents are an essential... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
environmental value simultaneously through its activities," Keshavjee explains. "It is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling up its activities." HCA, in partnership with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
computerize financial data and provide investment professionals with real-time market information and analysis. The computer terminal he View Details
Keywords: Susan Young