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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite some ups and downs, it thrived.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
state-owned land that will be released for development, and the light rail will come in on the other side of those trees.” He turns and points in the heat of an April afternoon, taking in the city as it is now, orienting his vision from every direction. There’s the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in costs by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and decision trees." "It's an exciting industry for anyone who has a technical, commercial, and financial background," says James T. Hackett (MBA '79), president, CEO, and chairman of Houston-based Ocean Energy, Inc., a company that employs 1,150 workers worldwide and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
The 2010 Alumni Achievement Award recipients have made their mark in a wide range of fields, from banking and investing to retailing, entrepreneurship, and space exploration. United by their leadership skills, each of these alumni is living proof that while the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center “was a learning experience I... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
had worked so hard for was the very thing that would kill us. That realization led me to the development of NOWaccount, a merchant service that relieves small businesses from the burden of funding and managing trade credit by immediately... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
he went on a trip he’d find a love note in his pajamas,” says Olsen. Despite Doriot’s singular talents, he was far from perfect. ARD should have never been incorporated as a publicly traded company. Doriot never groomed a successor to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
haven’t squeezed out cost yet,” agrees Celia Wcislo, a 1987 graduate of the Harvard Trade Union Program and the assistant division director of the 1199 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) United Healthcare Workers East, a local... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
financial institution, but our clients were the heads of equity, the heads of sell-side research, sales and trading in investment banks. So, you have this career, which I really enjoyed. There were a couple of transitional points with the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
current events really are helping us all see that society is not working for a lot of people. And the question I get a lot is, well, should I go be a product manager at Twitter and really learn some of the skills of the trade first and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
have included gangster elf-themed holiday wrapping paper and a Valentine’s Day condom giveaway. “I tell my team that ideas are key and if those ideas are good, I'll reallocate budgets to make them happen,” Braterman said in the June 3 edition of Campaign, a British... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
co-directors, the course intentionally enrolls equal numbers of HBS, HKS, and HLS students, and explores how modern diplomacy and negotiation can effectively overcome barriers to agreement in civil and interstate conflicts, as well as in View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
AMC stock at its opening price of $18 a share. (The company's employees were given the same deal.) The articles that reported this news also wondered if AMC was a good investment, given the rise of online movie viewing and home entertainment. With the stock View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
league is a nonprofit trade association) underpins the NFL's unique architecture. Even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell concedes the model is "a form of socialism [that's] worked quite well for us. So we try to combine socialism and... View Details