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- 01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
bumpy at best. By 1977, two of the four founding partners had left, leaving Cohen and Maurice Tchénio (MBA ’70) to look for help. Cohen approached Alan Patricof, a pioneering New York venture capitalist, to join them. The firm—known as... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
talent, we fail all of our students,” says Jan Rivkin, the senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program and the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration. “We fail our students from underrepresented groups because... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
points out, many different actors must come together to form an entrepreneurial ecosystem, from risk-taking founders to the angel investors willing to gamble on them to the service providers—e.g., real estate agents, lawyers—willing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
By using TDABC, the Head and Neck Center realized reductions in process time, in costs for technical and professional staff, and in overall direct and indirect per-patient costs. In addition to these savings, Feeley says that TDABC View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
insistence on this point . . . accounts for much of our trouble with American society today." Articles on the social and ethical aspects of cases in the marketing curriculum and the results of a poll of business leaders' views on... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Howard (MBA 1971) Boiling Point Editions This story depicts a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East and spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Life can either grind you down or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
players, for whom an average career, their union asserts, lasts less than four years (the league disputes that). The players claimed the league deceived them about its knowledge of the severity and scope of football-induced concussions... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
in its first year to 300 last year, taught in four sections by Henderson and George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration. Here, they talk about the shifting shape of leadership. How has the course evolved... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
going to change momentum behind off-shoring.” Back to top She·sesh·un (noun) When female employment numbers were disproportionately affected in the early months of the pandemic, media were quick to run with a new term: shecession. To explain the phenomenon, researchers... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
want to travel to all 54 countries in Africa? What was the sort of motivation for this undertaking? Tapon: I had never been to Africa before, and I had this grand ambition to visit all the countries in the world. There's 193 countries. And I had been at that View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
'ship captains' to help over 200 of our classmates make it onto the Nantucket Ferry and arrive on the island. We knew each other from that point on, but we didn't become close friends until a year later, when we visited West Virginia as... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
combination of technology, psychology, and human coaching, Noom is backed by more than a decade of user research and product development. Its platform includes two core programs: Noom Weight for weight management and Noom Mood for stress management. The future of Noom,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
global market, electric vehicles have become a government imperative. European Union member states, for instance, are preparing to implement the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive, which mandates the buildup of publicly accessible charging View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
that could have been because my Executive Education program had a lot of students from other countries where they couldn’t be out,” says Rocco. “We have to rely on people to self-identify. While the student LGBT club is very active... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Bibliomotion) Firestone has developed four core tenets of risk-taking that are applicable when anticipating, evaluating, and responding to risks in business, investing, and life. They are right-sizing; right-timing; relying on skill,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
opportunities, particularly in China, he said, were immeasurable. On the Ground The distinctive realities of doing business in China and East Asia were discussed at two packed panel discussions. On the second day of the conference, MBA View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Ventures—for three months to create the landmark conference. The full recording of the program is available at hbsangels.com/annual-conference. Toronto Panel Grapples with Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada When the World... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
thousands of young professionals and hundreds of interviews with the world’s top business and nonprofit leaders (among them Virgin’s Richard Branson, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, Third Point Advisors’ Daniel Loeb, and US Navy SEALs’... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
prayer as a point of distinction for the group, something special." Stuart also drew on principles he considers to be spiritually based to help him handle the sometimes overwhelming challenges he faced as a managerial leader. "I tried my... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
the polls instead of their hearts or brains. They listen more to political consultants than to voters. Our short-term-maximizing politicians fail to tackle longer-term societal challenges such as climate change or unaffordable entitlement View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)