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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
Eiffel Tower and handed out paper cups of champagne.” Up in smoke: “There’s a temple dedicated to loss—of loved ones, ideas, pets, hopes, dreams. All week long, people bring tributes to this beautiful wooden building and write messages on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
generates more than $1 billion annually in ad revenues. That puts the Internet ahead of two long-established media sectors, network radio and billboards. In a new working paper titled "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry"... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
backgrounds or experience levels of the top management team -- the CEO, CFO, and chief scientific officer, in particular -- aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," explains HBS associate professor Monica C. Higgins, coauthor of a new working View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
Wirecutter, earlier this year—what’s next for media companies? Do you see hope for the local newspaper that is not the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal? Our country needs a healthy local news ecosystem, and we are losing local View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
publications, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. His paper "Investing in Distressed Situations" received the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
between Florida and Georgia, and some are among water districts within a single state, such as California. Shankar has worked on this issue as well, coauthoring the water policy paper that has driven California's water conservation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
United States and Brazil could do a lot more together. There’s a lot of potential for partnership. Books you’re reading? Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell; The Snowball, about Warren Buffett. What’s the first Web site you look at in the morning? I read my e-mail. I’m a fan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
taught me great discipline in how to study, how to prepare, how to think,” he says. Upon graduation he joined the paper and packaging company Rand-Whitney. From there, he and his sons created The Kraft Group, which controls holdings in... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
in the morning” — Parker missed managing people, not a priority for junior investment bankers. “I realized that money, by itself, was not enough of a motivator for me.” (He came to the same conclusion after writing a 100-page self-assessment View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
vocals, and precision highs. We’re pretty excited about that, and we think our customers will be too. We’ve recently brought our product development process in-house, so instead of sourcing products in Asia, we can take a concept from a blank sheet of View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
nature, he says, so “this is about designing a financial system that can save us from our own worst tendencies.” To illustrate, Hanson points to a paper he coauthored with Robin Greenwood that revealed lessons about the mix of firms that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
and style and meeting deadlines, six days a week, three cases a day. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, your Written Analysis of Cases paper had to go down the chute [at Baker Library]. If it was 6:01, that chute just discarded your work. I needed an... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
fins and other apex predators. And we published a translation of a paper that showed that there was a build up of neurotoxins in shark fins that were linked to Alzheimer's. And we published that in Mandarin Chinese, to try to help stop... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
respectfully debate the most challenging issues here, and identify potential solutions here. With HBS faculty and students driving the conversations, we are optimistic that HBS and Harvard can be at the forefront of new conversations, fresh ideas, and innovative... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
promote them. Adapted from "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry," by Alvin J. Silk, Lisa R. Klein, and Ernst R. Berndt, a paper that was presented at the Berlin Internet Economics Workshop in 1999. View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
littered with papers and a full email in-box glaring at him from a flat-screen computer monitor, Marietta pauses for a moment to consider the bewildering array of tasks he has had to manage since coming to Pine Mountain. At no juncture,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the Internet age, often because many... View Details