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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
values of local, sustainable, healthy food, they can have a huge economic, environmental, and health benefit throughout their institutions.” The University of Massachusetts at Amherst—the largest institutional food operation in the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Internet-enabled, branchless banking model. But Rodríguez doesn’t just hand these companies money and wish them well. He wants them to thrive—to grow and scale. He wants them to do so well, in fact, that they attract competitors, forcing prices to drop and quality to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
able to greatly increase our knowledge of the region and develop a deep understanding of business practices that cut across functional boundaries, from finance to human resource management to strategy," says Sahlman. Plugging HBS In... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
specifically. Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. (MBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Part of a manager’s job is making tough calls, and the hardest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
away,” says Todd Mulder, food services general manager for Restaurant Associates, the hospitality firm that manages all campus food operations. “They are impressed that you can get sushi made to order,” in... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Photography by Susan Young “If you’re a brain geek, this is the best time in history to be alive,” says Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010), founder and managing partner of NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience startup accelerator. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
two, he had become “a difficult child,” and by three she was calling him a “troublemaker.” He discovered one day that he could run, and he has been running ever since. Golf: A Course in Business: A Few Lessons Golf Can Teach Us About View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
and have the benefit of significant life experience. They have a lot more to offer than someone off the street who gets the bug and decides to run.” A Change of Pace Beth Terrana (MBA ’83) Age: 47 Home: Wellesley, Massachusetts As a... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
Kilar says that he cofounded Vessel, which launched in March with backing from Jeff Bezos, Greylock Partners, and others, to address a problem: While a number of video creators were building a passionate following, very few had managed to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
other factors when seeking startup opportunities. "Businesses where there are high margins available with low economies of scale are more likely to survive," he says, citing institutional money management as an example of an area that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a single, simple portal and an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
world’s largest and most trusted investing institutions, Vanguard serves over 30 million clients, manages more than eight trillion dollars, and is an influential industry disruptor. Now, Charles Ellis reveals the story behind Vanguard’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
Sport and still racking up miles. “You don’t need to be competitive to get the benefits of running.” Swimmer “Learn to breathe on both sides when swimming freestyle,” says Anne Johnson (MBA 1986), an open-water swimmer who goes by the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
student—had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said “Their discoveries have benefited sellers, buyers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
the industry. Because, Williams's thinking went, the next step for DART was to implement a whole new model for drug development—one where a biotech company is funded by investors but driven by the very people benefiting from the outcomes:... View Details