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- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
broader friends and family, who collectively deserve the credit for getting me to this point in my life and career. Professionally, it is a team award for the various folks I work with at TPG Capital, who make showing up to work every day... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- News
Community Celebrates Dedication of Schwartz Common and Pavilion
and Pavilion recognize a gift from the Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation in honor of Schwartz’s 50th Reunion. Schwartz (MBA 1970) and family members were on hand for the dedication ceremony. “The sense of place on Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest price" -- typically by wringing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data
The expression “letting the fox guard the henhouse” comes to mind when you first hear about Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) systems, where a product manufacturer actually places orders for the retailer, determining quantities based upon... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
was going on, so I found myself working with 10 or 15 cousins every day after work, and I started writing some simple software for them so I could give them practice problems. “A friend said, ‘Well, you know how to help yourself scale up, so why don’t you View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
lab and fieldwork. How do you settle on a particular research question to investigate? Katherine Coffman: I’m looking for two things. The most important one is whether it has the potential to really make a difference for outcomes. It has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
and energy sector lead for The Rise Fund at TPG Global, saw interest from both younger alumni working in the field and senior alumni who have had successful careers and are looking for new opportunities to make a difference. “Climate... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Noah, Stephen Colbert, George Bush, Bill Clinton. “I have never been anywhere with Chris where half the people in the room did not already know him,” observes Harshman. Given his vast, varied experiences, Howard usually makes connections... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
Neurosmith. In many ways, Abercrombie was at the right place at the right time. The price of computer chips was plummeting, making it possible to deliver a lot of learning at an affordable price. After... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
Art by Digital Vision Corporate leadership is a much-discussed topic these days. With financial scandals making headlines daily, the CEO hero worship that was common during the late 1990s is out and increased skepticism is in. “The... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
Debbi, who told him to stop justifying his decision. If he was going to make the move, just do it. They had planned financially for the moment, fully aware that going the nonprofit route would mean a substantial pay cut. That part was... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
remain a 'reseller,' taking inventory of products from users and reselling them to wholesalers. This means its advantage can only come from scale. The problem then is that Gazelle's direct-to-consumer approach on its buy side places it at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Publishing Many companies make disruption their goal. They believe that if they develop the right innovation, they will disrupt their markets forever and drive the kind of growth worthy of a magazine cover story. But as bestselling author... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
a large penitentiary. “If you boil Reset down to one idea, it is that environment is the most important thing,” Anderson observes. “Jails and prisons are dehumanizing, ugly, and dark. If you tried to imagine the worst place possible to... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
secondary leukemia caused by myelodysplastic syndrome, a group of diseases in which the bone marrow makes few healthy blood cells. The doctors changed the woman’s therapy plan, and her health improved considerably. She was discharged from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of dollars that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
facing society and the economy, and this is one of them. We feel we have an ability to make a positive difference, and an opportunity to learn in the process. Porter: This really starts with the idea that the School has a unique platform... View Details