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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
confident that regulatory headaches and protests will eventually be put to rest. The bigger question is, is there room in Jakarta for all three services? It’s almost impossible to determine which company is besting the competition. Go-Jek... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
a magazine that would be mailed to members of the Alumni Association nine times a year and would include material on developments at HBS, discussions of "actual problems used for written reports in the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
peace was announced with drums and dancing. Two things were happening to Eamer simultaneously around the time of the 2006 announcement. First, he was going through religious discernment—a religious... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. View Details
- 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 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
had a long career in sports management, including an earlier stint running the business side of the Knicks, the WNBA's Liberty and the NHL's Rangers as the president of Madison Square Garden sports. But as inherent as competition is to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
wanted to make a change that would provide a platform allowing me to remain an active investor, and where I could continue to play a meaningful, albeit less demanding, role." In addition, after he and his... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
biotechnology. The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech world has more than a few bumps. With an average time line of ten years required to bring a drug to market - and the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
57th PMD, 1989 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©Jason Grow EARLIER EDUCATION University of Fribourg and University of Bern, 1979 M.D. LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS exposed me for the first time... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
extensively about Native Americans and is one of the "good guys," Keen says. In the past, academics would sometimes claim to be more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
the benefits of lower-cost, pollution-free energy today over the uncertain costs of carbon dioxide–driven climate change tomorrow for quite some time to come.” Lassiter is the Senator John Heinz Professor of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
analysis at HBS. Since then, I have been a big advocate of this objective method of examining the potential benefits and costs of any decision." ADVICE TO CURRENT STUDENTS "Seize the opportunity to live,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
world, with a great perch at Time, join Reddit as COO. And it was not a clear the company was at a different place at that time. Let’s start with how the opportunity came to you. Jen Wong: So I was actually not working at the View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
businesses are switching their benefit packages to establish a selection of coverage and benefits. The model of every person contributing to the cost of a benefit that few need is diminishing. I favor... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
grip on corporate America. Starting salaries averaged $22,500 in 1977. Neckties were wider, and the corporate uniform was dark business suits for men and conservative skirts View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
but he's not interested in the bulls and bears. Instead, his focus is on helping people in emerging markets pay their bills—which can often require hailing a taxi, heading out to a payment point, standing in line, View Details
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