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- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
Clubs News Clubs News Clubs Welcome Professor Desai The HBS Club of Toronto was one of several alumni clubs to host HBS and HLS Professor Mihir Desai during his 2019 tour for his latest book, How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
“We cover the financial community as our beat,” says CNBC president and CEO Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA ’88/JD’89). “So in many ways the terrorist attacks felt very personal to us as a news organization.” After doing a headcount to determine that all CNBC personnel were... View Details
Keywords: terrorism; leadership; television; news; stock market; decision making; Finance; Finance; Finance
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
Organizational Behavior Unit, Assistant Professor Tsedal Neeley researches global collaboration with special emphasis on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intergroup challenges of working across national boundaries. While a principal... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
divisiveness in their geographically dispersed colleagues. Yet she couldn’t find a single article of the hidden-in-plain-sight impact of language on the promise of global collaboration. “In my view,” says Neeley, now a full professor in the School’s Organizational... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
How to Buy Happiness
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
networking opportunities, the event, whose speakers included HBS professor Myra M. Hart, featured discussions on the specifics of financing and running a startup. Last month, the club held a one-day symposium, "The Internet for the Next... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
described as giving her team “room to run,” and offering the following anecdote: Bridgette Link runs Modern Finance and has broad discretion to determine what kinds of tools will make the most positive impact on her staff. Link says her... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax rate that precludes... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
their vehicles, plan more efficient routes, reduce fuel expenses, receive maintenance notifications, and track the behaviors of drivers. When Cobli won in 2016, it had 12 employees and no revenue. Today it employees 60 people and boasts... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side
Through his writings, through his participation in hundreds of academic seminars, and through his mentorship of dozens of doctoral theses — mine included — Howard has left an indelible mark on a generation of scholars with his deep insights about human View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
Mitch Tuchman and Scott Puritz (photo by Kim Marshall) Mitch Tuchman (MBA 1982) was a successful software entrepreneur in the exuberant 1990s when his first son, Jack, was born. A year later, Tuchman’s life changed: He and his wife learned that Jack suffered from... View Details