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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
decades in the investment world, service on nonprofit boards and think tanks, and management of the financial turnaround of both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, not to mention a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
chance to see and experience China’s modernization firsthand. The conference itself took place in a high-rise-studded financial district that didn’t exist just a decade ago. And the event put a spotlight on the School’s deepening... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Celebrating HBS
$500 million by December 2005 to support student financial aid, global research, faculty development, learning technologies, and campus renewal. Each of these initiatives requires resources beyond what the School’s current endowment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
Fiscal year 2007 “proved to be an excellent financial and operational year for Harvard Business School,” declared CFO Richard Melnick (MBA ’92) in the School’s newly released annual report. He cited continued growth in the global economy... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
and therapy, and start to explore what else is out there and what you would want to do. That's stage two. Then stage three is more of an integrating what you've learned. I spoke to a CEO of a financial advisory firm in Seattle, who has... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
this year a baby, next year Europe," to quote one commentator, and do all those other things the media tells me you're doing to destroy our economy, tradition, ethics - our very way of life? Section D Correspondent Kathleen Fitzsimmons (MBA '81) April 1999 My company,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
portfolio of businesses, each of which might be grown or harvested, bought or sold, in service to a larger corporate purpose. Most dangerous of all, the prestrategy worldview lacked a rigorous sense of the dynamics of competition — “If we... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
we estimate a $115 million loss in GDP a year in Rwanda alone.” SHE picked Rwanda as its first business site because it is one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. The organization already has global reach. Scharpf recently hopped from New York to San Francisco... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
being very enthusiastic about tech to what was called tech-lash. And then we had tech-for-good: I wrote a case on Propel, which helps low-income people with financial services and food stamps. And now we’re... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
companies and has a financial stake in Moderna.) There was a dollars-and-cents logic to this, since the big rewards that can be had in the pharmaceutical industry come with big financial risks. “There’s... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
company, Ventro, which provides services for online exchanges. While the gold rush days of the late 1990s may be over, there is still a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for entrepreneurship among HBS students, faculty, and alumni. “The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
all expectations. We are indebted, as well, to the extraordinary cadre of HBS Fund volunteers, who are uniquely qualified to articulate the reasons why HBS needs your financial support. Given the vast number of organizations vying for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Great Expectations
a significant investment of human and financial capital. Support from alumni and friends has been and will continue to be a crucial element of our success. It gives us the courage to build on our legacy. Your support and your expectations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Salter New Head of External Relations
qualified students get the financial support they need to attend the School. Looking ahead, Salter says he wants to “lay the foundation that allows us to leverage the energy and the relationships built during the campaign.” In addition to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
restaurants. Things went well, until — as is so often true in the mercurial world of restaurants — they didn’t. Thomas put her expertise in operations and management to work, helping to sort out some of the financial difficulties the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
both inside and outside the School. For the past four years, he has managed his family's $1.4 million real-estate and service business, successfully turning the company around by restructuring debt, stabilizing the firm's tenant base, and... View Details