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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
computers loaded with out-of-date information sat amid rows of overflowing filing cabinets. "Our most fundamental problem was that we didn't have accurate, up-to-date taxpayer records," he says. "We were like a bank that couldn't tell you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price." "Very smart people looked at Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
University before heading to HBS. His business thinking was influenced by faculty giants such as Georges Doriot, who taught industrial management and is widely considered the father of venture capital, and commercial View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
matters most, if you're constantly trying to do that and saying, am I happy? It can make you less happy. DM: Well, yeah, you've written about this idea that the “happiness industrial complex” is broken, right? And you were sad to find out... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
proposition? How are they going to make money? How are they going to get an adequate ROI on this? How much investment is it? And how quickly can they recoup that investment? In the same token, I've got to talk to the rights holder, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
’91), an expert in project finance, studies how firms structure, value, and finance very large capital investments such as oil fields, mines, and power plants. His research covers both developed and developing countries, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. In... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Understanding Southeast Asia’s New Business Frontier From cosmopolitan Bangkok and Singapore to the Sumatran rainforest, participants in the June 2017 HBS faculty immersion explored the diverse industries of Southeast Asia. “This region... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Put aside the consulting firms and investment banks for a while," he exhorted students in the audience. "We need you now!" Charles MacCormack, president and CEO of Save the Children, changed his own career... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
portfolio of programs in parallel.” In an industry where serial entrepreneurship is the norm, Cytokinetics’s approach instead requires “a strategy based on sustainability and durability” that includes forging significant partnerships with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
The old-fashioned assumption of the environmental movement was that business and industry were the problem. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is bullish that they can be part of the solution. A new breed of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
unexpected) expenses and making investment decisions along the way about upgrades (such as lights and equipment) that will improve Angel’s performances (and pay). The impact of the games to date is encouraging. In surveys of participants... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
small, in California, Florida, and Texas, where most HBS Latino alumni live. Dallas was the proving ground for this strategy. “We want to collect and build our networks more regionally,” says Calderon, who sits on the club’s board. “There’s a demand and an appetite for... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
also not an ideal situation for athletes, who feed off of a crowd’s energy. But for the sports leagues and the related startups that can survive this transition period—and not all of them will—it could provide an opportunity to assess and View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
nature of business itself. It’s more global, more technology dependent, and less hierarchical. Knowledge-based industries are overtaking older, more basic industries. And the pace of change is quickening. “So we have to understand how the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
private equity, eventually left Lehman to join Oakhill Partners in 1990, and then cofounded an independent investment banking advisory firm, Evercore Partners, in 1995. And while Offensend was building his... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details