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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 14 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)
to start a fitness bootcamp at HBS and a virtual personal training practice, allowing her to test out entrepreneurship while exploring the business of fitness and wellness. It also built up her emotional resilience as she held out for the right summer internship. “I... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
market-type dispersion is an important determinant of delegation and the provision of incentives. Using a sample of convenience store chains, we show that market-type dispersion is related to the degree of franchising at the chain level... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
debt for new securities worth 35 cents on the dollar, with no recognition of all past-due interest. Many holdouts, however, remain outside the deal. Some experts believe that Argentina's stance will have negative consequences for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
LinkedIn allowed individual members to post a profile on the LinkedIn site and then to use the site's tools to search for job opportunities; to recruit job candidates; to find suppliers, partners, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
describe myself as a shock absorber,” she says. “My job is to take care of everyone on and off the set and solve their problems on a day-to-day basis.” As an undergraduate at Harvard, Nabatoff was the first woman to produce the Hasty... View Details
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1.5 Attendance | MBA
documentation. Excused Recruiting Absences When there is a recruiting need that cannot be accommodated outside of class or on an Open Day, students may take Excused Recruiting Absences, which are valid for most recruiting activities related to View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
"A new push for college athletes to (finally) be paid will gain strength; the NBA will win the broadcasting rights lottery, securing new deals with at least two networks; and the only time A-Rod wears a Yankee uniform next year will be if... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
twitch in a series of transactions by corporations and the public that can be qualified only as speculation. Men talk of squeezing the water out of securities but seem never to conceive of getting rid of the wind in their own prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
enormous pressures of his job and deploy the full range of management skills, savvy, and perseverance that he was hired to bring to what is truly a remarkable civic effort. On its first try (a virtually unheard-of accomplishment),... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
out of HBS after one year to take a job on Wall Street, the Frenchman became, arguably, the most influential and popular professor at HBS. Over three generations, Doriot taught thousands of students, many of whom went on to become... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
the dimension with the greater attribute range. As for the dimension with the smaller range and along which they agglomerate, both firms either choose the highest quality level or the lowest quality level possible, depending on whether the marginal costs of quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
marveled at humankind's resourcefulness and success: The chorus notes that without gills, man has devised ways to travel on the sea. He has invented speech, and plows for the earth. With these accomplishments he secures good things such... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
for example. Investors may secure a promising iron ore asset but drag their feet in developing it while waiting for mines elsewhere to deplete. Even after a decision is made to mine, the infrastructure must be built to bring the resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
real-world perspective.” Leo Corbett (MBA 1975), whose career both in the private and public sectors includes stints in the Social Security Administration and on Wall Street, has served on many boards of directors. He said he enjoyed... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding model for small investors to access commercial real estate in Colombia and then tests the model in the United States. U.S. regulations, starting with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace