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- 24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business
enacting its provisions, partly due to concerns over perceived risks to unsophisticated investors. Moreover, not all of the provisions will be enacted at once. For now, Callaghan and McGee are focusing on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
undertaking that could be worked on as a Holy Grail,” says Daniel J. Holland (MBA ’62), an ARD staffer in the late 1960s. “But he wouldn’t write a check until all the risks were understood.” Creating a Model for Venture Capital Success... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
disconnect between strategy formulation and its execution. The answer? Professor Robert Kaplan and his colleague, Andrew Pateman, argue for the creation of a new corporate office. The Cost of Cutting in Line... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
things don't go as planned, remember to look in the mirror, and don't lose the learning. Leave everything better than you found it. Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
students said, ‘If I can’t see it, it’s hard for me to be it.’ And we fail our other students because we don’t show them the many sources of amazing talent in the world. We put them at risk of overlooking... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
global brand with blood, sweat, and sacrifices, and it is being tarnished with every act of intolerance. I wish every American would realize that if they take away my freedoms, they View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
No Mistake About It: Trust Is Key in Learning It's a real Catch-22: Learning is more critical than ever to firm success, yet the process often requires making mistakes. And many people believe mistakes lead to failure View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
want a risk taker; you want someone who can identify and mitigate risk. You don’t always want someone who is optimistic. “If you’re optimistic and 17, that’s very different... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
early-stage information technology companies. "We had some good luck early on, and that made it easier to raise subsequent funds," says the humble New Jersey native, a Princeton graduate who, along with his wife, Lynn, is raising their... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
could give him the skills he needed, but that he couldn’t achieve his goal if it meant acquiring substantial debt. “The fellowship enables me to take on a higher level of risk in my career choice and follow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
buyers to take on the risks and responsibilities of owning a home without any financial upside. The covenants that limit an owner’s resale price allow them to benefit from a modest rate of appreciation when... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
environmental career that started on the banks of the Rhine River. Merkl grew up in Cologne, Germany in the 1960s—a time when the Rhine was so polluted that anyone even daring to wade into it risked arrest. "It stank, literally," recalls... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
alike are increasingly relying on whistleblowers to prevent and investigate fraud, the professors realized, there is little understanding about the real risks faced by an employee who steps forward. Dey... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
uncertainty is due to the megamergers of the past fifteen years when, Frank Biondi noted, all the major networks and film studios were sold. As Harold Vogel put it: "There are hardly any more... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
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Students Hear Wall St. Critics
cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability View Details