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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
and CEO and added a veteran executive team filled with his former industry colleagues—including former CFO Cabot Brown (MBA 1987)—all of them bringing not only two or three decades of experience in drug development, fundraising, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the captains then got a bunch of crew. Morrell: Take the example of the Essex, the whaling boat whose story became the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The principal owners of the Essex invested in some repairs in the aging... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis argues... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
investments in a variety of Indian business sectors. After graduation, Khare plans to work in a hypergrowth, high-tech Silicon Valley company or in private equity in Singapore or Hong Kong before pursuing his entrepreneurial dream in... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
But that still represents only a tiny fraction of the thousands of terawatt-hours the WPTO predicts could be generated by tidal and wave technology in the United States, where investment in emerging marine-energy tech lags far behind that... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of starlings. By following their seven... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly plan of... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
that Susan had inoperable brain cancer. She was given three years to live. Nothing had prepared Sontag for the experience of being a caregiver to a terminal oncology patient and making the life-or-death decisions he and his wife faced,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his time at HBS, and his current... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
HBS professor André F. Perold, for instance, led a discussion on investing in South Africa, with panelists John S. Chalsty (MBA '57), chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; C. Bruce Johnstone (MBA '66), managing director of Fidelity... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
than half of new college graduates are underemployed. We’re not measuring whether someone got a job in their field, we’re measuring whether they got any kind of college level occupation. So, for example, an engineer who goes to work as an View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
alongside step aerobics. The modern US yoga experience is defined as much by its pants as it is by its practices. And one of the biggest drivers of that redefinition is Lululemon. The chain’s 250 US stores—with more than 100 global... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation
Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
deals with ethics, governance, and legal issues. “At that point the case changed to focus on tensions between pricing as a reward for investment in R&D versus making a product available to poor people who will die without it,” says... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
office, which looks out on the park, Nichols pauses to reflect on her career. Thanks to scholarship assistance, Nichols was able to attend both Cornell and, later, Harvard Business School. "In a way, the HBS experience foreshadowed my... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
for us to start this,” Sambvani says. Now, a year after the launch of their product, Sambvani and Duncan are running a seed-stage company with 10 staffers and more than 100 customers, all of whom were found without investing in marketing.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
thought needed additional investment of time and resources which was fundamentally what to do with carbon dioxide. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast DM:... View Details