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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
successful navigation of turbulent markets will require a mastery of the core skills of corporate finance. This book focuses on essential valuation methodologies for public and private companies on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
machine. That gave him the freedom to pick and choose his cabinet from the private sector and other political parties and tune its focus to performance, instead of political ideology. The public sector is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
inward at their operations, and then to their supply chain,” Toffel said. “But another key lever is public policy. What are we doing to foster—or undermine—climate policy?” Approximately 100 people gathered for the discussion entitled... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
after graduation. Privately owned Rounder Records in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example, which specializes in what Paul Knutson calls "roots-based" music, such as bluegrass and folk, will sometimes sign an act even if it knows it will... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
flight, hop onboard, conduct business in the private cabin, attend their meeting, and fly home later the same day. The same would hold true for a Boston–New York traveler using the area’s smaller, regional airports. Leiman, Ogden, and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
idea for her store four years ago while accompanying her father-in-law on shopping trips for medical equipment. "We're one of four superstores in the country that allows people to 'road test' items such as wheelchairs and walkers before buying them," she says. View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
loving parents, both of whom had grown up in the inner city. They sent me to private school and sheltered me from the crime of Detroit.” But then, one month after being diagnosed with cancer, Sundy’s father died. Young Rob was soon in... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
hospitals. It seems inevitable Bhargava would start an enterprise aimed at creating social change, having come from a family with a rich history of public service. His father founded the Commerce College in their home state of Rajasthan;... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
forum for discussion. But as knowledge of life sciences develops alongside even swifter advances in technology, it seems inevitable that biotechnology's influence will be felt to a profound degree well before we ring in many more New Years. And if companies meet the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
Pieroni. They are all remarkable business leaders who inspire me. Susannah Swihart (MBA 1980) former vice chairman and CFO, BankBoston, Cumberland Foreside, Maine I think real business leaders see beyond quarterly earnings growth and realizing an asset flip for their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
requirement to know where you are on the playing field. Different firms can come at the business in very different ways. For Accel, historically we have specialized. Over time, those specializations continue to become more granular. At the same time there are clearly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for... View Details