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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
opportunity costs that a person might encounter in launching a venture. And the news is even grimmer for teams of academics: The more founders on the team with a PhD or postdoc training, “the lower the likelihood of survival and the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Zhongjue (Drew) Chen
English-on issues from the one-child policy to communism. To this day I still remember how petrified I was, surrounded by a completely foreign setting. But somehow, miraculously, I survived and rose to the challenge. As I am ready to... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jocelyne Moyer
It's something my parents never really explained to me, but I figured it out. Bankruptcy taught me to fear that everything I have could be taken away. I never dreamed of making a difference in the world – only of surviving it. After our... View Details
- Portrait Project
Onaizah Panhwar
for the values they instilled in me. Twelve years ago, my parents and I were in a driving accident in which they both passed away. I survived the accident with a scarred face and a head injury but immediately after, I had to step up for... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lee Koffler
their lives over again. One hundred years after Johannes Brahms's death, his passion and sorrow survive in his Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor. For two centuries, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy in C Minor has led audiences to rejoice. In another... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again
talents? Photography and I can survive on about four hours of sleep a night–but that's more of a superpower than a talent. If you could have dinner with any three people (dead or alive) who would they be? Golda Meir, Nelson Mandela, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Research Grows from Asian Financial Crisis
heads," Yoshino recalls. After the dust settled a bit, Yoshino decided that the crisis presented an interesting twist. Some companies, he noted, appeared to be surviving much better than others. As they adapted, others "remained in total... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
long-term survival rates of companies that are sold under these Section 363 sales are no different than those that have traditional reorganizations—with new debt or equity provided to all creditors through a slower, more democratic... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
restructure in one way or another in order to survive in an uncertain economy. The only sure thing, according to HBS professor Stuart Gilson, is that restructuring itself has become more than just a last-resort action of desperate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Profile
Adil Seetal
knowledge. The key to HBS is that the emphasis isn't on theoretical knowledge, but on sharpening your thinking by engaging tough challenges with incredible people." "One apprehension I had," says Adil, "was about View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
citizen, he joined the U.S. Navy in 1943, attended Wharton during his service, and then studied economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Although he had planned on a career in teaching, a job offer from Ford diverted him for the next decade. Dearden is View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
and researcher Giulio Buciuni, of the University of Venice Ca' Foscari, address the question of when clusters survive and when they fail in their May 2015 working paper, Can Marshall's Clusters Survive... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
long-standing business leaders from emerging economies across the globe. They offer compelling insights into how entrepreneurs based in these countries survived turbulence and change, and the lessons that can be learned from their... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
is in the interest of entrepreneurs to grow their firms to a size that sufficiently improves their chances of survival and success. Moreover, large firms are a source of employment, and hence new venture growth is important to society as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because the state provides "the property... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
New York Club Asks for Donations to September 11 Relief Fund
of the surviving families. The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund accepts contributions to relieve the suffering of civilians' and rescue workers' families directly affected by the World Trade Center attacks. To make a tax-deductible... View Details
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Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
represented in the deal books are extremely diverse, from small companies that survived only a few years to Fortune 500 companies that still exist today.The collection testifies to the broad reach Lehman Brothers had in both established... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
transformation that is as radical as it is methodical, as essential to the company’s survival as Steve Jobs’s iPhone was to Apple’s.” In overseeing the company’s transition to a lean operation more akin to a tech innovator, Immelt has... View Details
Robert F. Bensinger
Bensinger, the last Brunswick family member to run the company, is credited with the company’s survival and prosperity. Taking the helm of the family company at the brink of the Depression, Bensinger embarked on a growth and... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
I’d never actually experienced it firsthand. So what that showed me was that the problem must be statewide if our privileged community couldn’t survive on the funds that we were given. So we realized we needed to build the political will... View Details