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- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
change will require thoughtful action over several years,” say Otten and Kaplan. “Our biggest risk may be not to continue our work after the 2020 election, thereby not resolving these risks for future... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
when the future of the business hinged on a single decision. For Sarina Russo (OPM 28, 1999), founder and president of the Sarina Russo Group of education, employment services, and property companies, that moment came in 1993 when she View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
technologies in New York, to the importance of business leaders speaking out politically in Los Angeles, to the risks facing Midwest agribusiness in Chicago. The BEI will continue the series in 2020 and plans to extend it overseas by... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
and the business of movies, both concepts of which were totally new to the trio. “We didn’t go into this as a vanity project,” observes Munger. “We did our due diligence first, knowing there are enormous risks involved but that they’re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
especially dangerous when you’re first starting to work on new ventures. Part of you wants to get something done, to make that first deal or investment, in order to break the ice and get started. Yet if you give in to FOMO, you risk... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
Business “With this sort of brand marketing, it’s not like you can say, ‘Okay, I’m shooting for some kind of emotion or value, and either it works great or it doesn’t—no harm, no foul.’ No, because people could actually rail against what you’re conveying. It’s a View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
leaders exemplify the kind of intelligent thinking that Holt describes. They experiment and learn. And in a fluid environment, winners are those who know how to take risks but can cut any losses quickly, in order to take advantage of... View Details
- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
within your control. In actuality, it becomes an exercise in relentlessly managing what you can control to reduce the risk of failure." What advice do you have for current HBS students, career or otherwise? "Attending HBS is an amazing... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Photos by Chris Taggart Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
entrepreneurial management and strategy. Anette Mikes came to HBS in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow after earning her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She’s now an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management unit with a focus on View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
that generated new types of financial instruments and made risk management more efficient. His work bridges the worlds of theory and practice and is applied by thousands of investors every day. Merton's further work has made the options... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
critical part of our strategy,” she explains. “They have made it possible for us to take risks and to provide free programs geared toward young alumni.” Goldman Sachs, Deloitte & Touche, Korn/Ferry International, Polaris Venture Partners,... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
is willing to come in with capital. Other funding options add risk or represent extra dilution over the synergetic partner alternative. —Ariel Galinsky (MBA 1997) Whole Foods alone is not enough for a single-flavor product aiming to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
scale, risk and opportunities, and how to achieve success through the relentless pursuit of excellence. He not only offers readers a thoughtful reflection on all his own experiences, but also in doing so provides a practical blueprint for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
first-date spot: In their online profiles, women got younger and men got taller. As the stigma of online dating faded, the idea arose that the Internet could make dating easier for everyone. Asking someone on a date via email was less of an emotional View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information technology can lead to more flexible organizational structures and innovative management control systems. These ideas appear in her recent casebook Managing in an Information Age. Professor F. Warren McFarlan is currently engaged in an analysis of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
directors, we often discussed the reality that pushing rates up too precipitously would risk cutting off the recovery before we’re at full employment. I think Boston Fed economists would say that it would be great to operate in an economy... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
areas of the economy where there has been "quiet, unheralded change." "The advent of the microprocessor in the early 1980s was more the kind of quiet change that an entrepreneur should keep his or her eye out for," he says. "I'd argue that the View Details