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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
to leave the state for college, Gregg majored in economics and East Asian studies at Washington and Lee University and worked as a consultant at Charles River Associates before coming to HBS. “I got to do such crazy stuff,” she says of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
faculty will be in residence for periods of up to one year, developing affiliations with other faculty in the region and working on collaborative projects. The Hong Kong office will be a place where workshops and activities will give... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell and this is the third and final episode of “Out of the Valley,” a Skydeck mini-series that explores the past, present, and future of entrepreneurship. We started in the whaling... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
sponsoring clubs typically invite participants to receptions or panel discussions to share what they learned and how they hope to apply it to their work going forward. “We have found that the scholarship recipients benefit enormously from... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
will provide necessary capital investment and expertise, treat and deliver drinking water, and bill and collect revenue. Treatment and quality standards for that water, how much of it can be extracted, and how much the company can charge... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
have one last morning of kissing his three kids goodbye and going to work and thinking everything was OK. One final bit of normal, she thought. The initial post-diagnosis plan was for Benjy to continue his busy schedule as a radiologist,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
endow a chair at the School. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked for a number of years at Unibanco, Brazil's third largest bank, including service as executive director. In 1983, he and three partners founded Pactual,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
drives; and how to manage the disease and vaccinations in the villages of developing countries. The book also explores how governments across the world can work closely with private-sector companies to fight the illness and accelerate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cyber currencies and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepare for classes as well? "It was pretty tough," he admits with a smile. "But I thrived on working with people from different sectors of the HBS community on a variety of issues." Getting along with people and taking initiative have... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture capital spin-off,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
from company performance as critics imply? Not at all, according to HBS professor Jay W. Lorsch, whose 1998 working paper, "Compensating Corporate CEOs: A Process View," examines the procedures and forces that drive CEO pay packages.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
to do ours as a favor and at a price we could afford.” What comes next: “We have our system up and running and are working on making it more robust so it can scale. We were invited to work as entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
airfield to see what was happening. Their clandestine arrival was “a carnival,” according to one of the B-17 pilots. The crowd burst into applause at the sight of Green in his full khaki Navy work uniform, with the single star and two... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
cited skills developed at HBS as critical to their entrepreneurial success. The survey also showed that alumni who were self-employed had often followed a traditional career path in the first decade after earning an MBA and only later had they ventured out on their... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Reunion gift committee and chaired the Capital Campaign the School held from 2002 to 2005, an effort that raised some $600 million. From 1998 to 2004, he was a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and served as the Board’s president... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
their capital commitments to the firm’s next fund. ABRY’s fourth fund raised $780 million; its fifth could potentially reach $4 billion. Is this a problem? In the case, Yudkoff describes his belief that ABRY’s success is due in part to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
(MBA 2007). Mobius’s founder, British entrepreneur Joel Jackson, moved to rural Kenya to work in a micro-forestry enterprise in 2009. During his field visits, he encountered the problem of expensive secondhand vehicles, many of them... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg