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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
intensified as well. "In the last fifteen years," Tufano says, "competition has centered on the most effective means of distributing products; on the quality, immediacy, and depth of information made available to consumers; and on the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining table. "The role of informal... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Richard Branson, where we did shark tagging. We funded a shark tagging expedition in the British Virgin Islands. And there was an effort ongoing, that we merged into, to provide the information required to show that sharks were important... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
influence has become increasingly international, with approximately 329,000 employees working in 75 countries. Now the world's largest information technology company, it recorded revenues of more than $96 billion in 2004. While IBM's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
engage in global cooperation to get these planes done. Another lesson was IT systems. We lost visibility of the supply chain because our systems weren’t good enough to keep track of manufacturing activity. It’s essential to maintain 24/7... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
to complete the manuscript of Silent Spring, which documents the effects of pesticides such as DDT on the environment and the campaign of misinformation surrounding their use. “Leaders are obligated...to translate information into... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering University of Singapore, 1974 M.S.,... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
point-of-sale systems at the retail stores. They had some policies that were interesting. One of the policies is, they cleared the POS systems every night. They’d wipe the hard drives, just in case someone... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
entrepreneurs have to build the full stack. Morrell: Which usually means developing both the ultimate product and the infrastructure that underpins it, says Alex. Think of Amira having to build not only the consumer-facing website for BulkWhiz, but also its last-mile... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
Astronaut, Apollo 13 Lovell Read complete profile. In 1970 the world watched as Commander James Lovell and his crew scrambled to convert their lunar module into a lifeboat when their cryogenic oxygen system failed. It was Lovell who... View Details
Keywords: awards; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Commons Project, a nonprofit that in April launched Common Health, an Android app that allows users to securely download their health information from Electronic Health Records (EHR) and lab sources (similar to Apple Health). The... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
trade, of what we do in the West to these countries—if we are extracting trillions of dollars in minerals from Congo and giving back a few million or even a billion in aid over time, then you have to really wonder what is that system that... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
miracle. Professor David B. Yoffie served as informal moderator and faculty chair. Global Gathering Early in the opening session on April 6, conference chairman Robert Piccus and HBS Dean Kim B. Clark welcomed the international group,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
World’s Financial System by Michael Pakaluk and Mark Cheffers (MBA ’90) (Allen David Press) Filled with case studies, anecdotes, examples, and historical reflections, this book raises key questions like: Did accounting irregularities help... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
each one of us receives from this community are very important. I want to thank all of you for participating in this support system and for sustaining the unique set of values that defines HBS. "Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
have to be willing and able to tear down in order to build up. The old and proven and venerable must sometimes give way to the new and innovative and transformational. But we should also note that capitalism is far from perfect. While it’s superior to any other View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)