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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
linked to the Harvard Business School in perpetuity through the building that will bear their name." Speaking briefly, Spangler thanked the Dean for the opportunity to make an investment so closely tied to the quality of student life at... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
While there is a lot to be said for being lucky rather than being smart, I’ve learned that being smart means putting yourself in the path of luck at the right time. Investing and life are a lot like surfing that way: One mostly needs to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
(In medieval Europe, it was consumed daily because the presence of alcohol made it a safer alternative to water.) And the recipe has remained largely unchanged. To make either low- or no-alcohol beer, one begins with a batch of full-test... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
producing meat, seafood, and dairy alternatives through plant-based or cell-based technology. The fund received support from some surprising places: the country of Singapore’s investment company, Temasek,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
excessive consumer and corporate debt. “Regulatory structures failed to keep up” with innovations in the marketplace, he added. Thain took the top spot at Merrill Lynch in December 2007, resigning as CEO of the NYSE Euronext. Previously,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
Thailand. “A big takeaway for me was the necessity of being on the ground to understand country-to-country differences,” observes Selena Kalvaria (HBS 2013). “It’s not possible to have a catchall ‘emerging markets’ category.” As an View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
gas investment program, which represent around 40 percent of our committed and invested capital. “To answer the question of what the industry will look like in 2030, I’ll say first that we at Riverstone have... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
in the ranks of investors. She also knew that some firms were seeking to diversify their partnerships without addressing underlying structural problems. “Partner” did not always mean check-writing abilities or a voice on the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least 70 million millennials in the United States, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
$9 million on the strength of higher circulation and foreign edition royalties for Harvard Business Review; growth in sales of cases, teaching materials, and HBS Press books; and expansion of HBSP’s eLearning business. Another year of strong View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
some $3 billion. Born in Ireland in 1932, Dunphy studied law at Oxford University, but he discovered an intriguing career alternative when students visiting from Harvard Law School mentioned HBS during a moot court exercise. Dunphy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
leadership and changed the basic structure of Wall Street, as outlined in this excerpt from the chapter “Revolution in Investment Banking.” During their time together working on the Ford offering [in 1956,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Wolfensohn Center for Development, a new global poverty research initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is also relishing the opportunity to work with his son, Adam, and daughter Naomi at Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a privately held firm that View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Convening Power
A significant new structure will open in 2018 on the HBS campus, designed to harness the energy, creativity, and ideas of the thousands of students, faculty, alumni, and leaders of all kinds who convene at the School each year. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
management gap he both anticipated and greatly underestimated. Against all odds, and the advice of many, Perkowski ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to chase his entrepreneurial dreams. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
radar technology, which forces planes to fly 50 nautical miles apart and only on predetermined routes. Step Forward: Satellite Tracking Delta Air Lines CEO Richard Anderson, citing air traffic control systems as "one of our biggest constraints," urged more View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons