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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
HBS assistant professor George Chacko, and HBS doctoral candidate Geoffrey Verter that looked at how risk management theory could be applied to understand a biotech firm's decision to buy call options on its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
the first step toward breaking that code. In 2017, the team conducted a field study in collaboration with Harvard Medical School, which announced a call for research proposals for solutions to human health problems. The researchers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
to what will replace Fannie and Freddie. The administration has outlined three options designed to frame the congressional debate expected to unfold over the months ahead: (1)privatization of the mortgage market, (2) new private,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Objectives in Unpredictable Times studiously avoids a discussion of what the authors call “the S-word” — strategy. Instead, the book offers “a no-excuses, in-the-trenches perspective” that lets managers take existing realities and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including Pakistan or Tajikistan, or use an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
led to the creation of the Organ Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit established to advocate for additional funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. Giwa served as founding CEO of what he calls a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
provide the tools and services that will help older adults live longer, healthier lives. Investing in Experience Abby Miller Levy was motivated to start a venture fund in the older-adult sector after discovering a dearth of options for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
technology to become available for laboratory use. He calls for new approaches to research and funding to encourage a tighter, more collaborative coupling of engineering and biology. Only then, he argues, will we see the rapid advances in... View Details
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
properties are mainly three-bedroom townhomes, and, for many of our residents, these are the first modern, safe, and secure homes they have ever had,” says Freeman. “For homeless veterans, our houses provide a place of their own to call... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
anyone. Most of the top executives didn’t understand the risks they were taking, so can you imagine a septuagenarian sitting in the boardroom getting a PowerPoint presentation on synthetic CDOs and credit default swaps?” In a conference View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
option where we drop the delivery next to the door so they don’t have any interaction with people. The unfortunate thing is that hospitality is all about people. We’re now, as an industry, trying to figure out how we eliminate people from... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2007, Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell wrote a book called Lone Survivor, which recounted his experience during a 2005 mission in Northeastern Afghanistan that ultimately... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
like the best way to recover was to get back to school as quickly as possible. I kind of thought there was no option and I think, for many people, work and school are-- anything structured activities-- absolutely key to recovery. To be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
legendary impresario Charlie Finley was having trouble finding a radio station to broadcast his struggling team’s games, the young entrepreneur made his pitch. “I called Mr. Finley ten days before Opening Day, and we negotiated at first... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
company and raised $2.25 million for it, and then we shut it down. We certainly made a lot of mistakes in building out the company, but my number one piece of advice for the HBS community is that HBS offers incredible optionality and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
1965) Have a Long-Term Strategy — Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) Beware of Bias — Donald J. Chiofaro (MBA 1972) Exceed Expectations — Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) See Every Side — Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) Take a Chance — Michael Kubin (MBA 1973) Make the Hard View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
carbon neutral," he says. The entire process is a major technological undertaking—one Dawe says he probably wouldn't be involved with if he and C12 Energy cofounder Kurt Zenz House hadn't been introduced to each other by a Harvard Business School professor. "Kurt and I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
is a senior lecturer at HBS, a special partner at Engine, a venture firm focused on tough tech, and a senior advisor and venture partner at Breakthrough Energy. He has spent the last 15 years of his career focused on climate and sustainability technology ventures. What... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
potential and his prospects, Chertavian was determined to help expand options for Heredia and kids like him. “I saw that David had enormous talent and drive, but he needed help to reach his full potential,” says Chertavian, adding an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training
programs and CD-ROMs, including a travel title called Expedia, which was later spun out of Microsoft as an Internet IPO. With the rise of the Internet, Murch led Microsoft's online games division and produced the hugely popular MSN Gaming... View Details