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- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
individual happiness. And I think that's really derived from pursuing your own passion. My name is Jeff Perls, I'm the class of 1967. Keep your eye on the ball, basically. It really revolves around making sure you knew what you had to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
only the costs for capital, labor, and traded goods but also social costs like the effect of air pollution on health or even the value people derive from the continued survival of an endangered species. At the same time, managers are... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
derives 80 percent of its data from a lengthy questionnaire filled out by the schools, heavily weighting student career services, diversity of corporate recruiting, and starting salaries. With such a wide range of approaches, the results... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
catalyst for new ideas. "The creativity necessary [for] innovation derives not only from the obvious, visible expertise but from invisible reservoirs of experience," they write. Such reservoirs, they note, are particularly helpful in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
get to know one another, so they decided to offer late dinners where participants could linger and talk to each other and faculty members without the pressure of having to rush off to complete a homework assignment. Hart and Amabile realized from the outset that the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
text introducing risk-reducing strategies such as hedging, portfolio diversification, insurance, and derivative market mechanisms. In addition, the book trains the reader in relevant methodologies, including exposure analysis, the capital... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
replace “power-less and lost” with “hopeful and optimistic.” I want the New York skyline to once more inspire dreams of the possible, not echoes of the past. I want to come home again. — Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) works on banking strategy and financial View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
consumer. "Managers can't expect customer information to represent a free good forever," explains Rayport. "Eventually, customers will want a piece of the value companies derive from information collected about themselves." But the... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
deployment of all sorts of derivatives and collateralized debt. However, a crucial difference is that in the natural world, events that disrupt evolution are random. The asteroid that hit the earth and caused the extinction of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
courses, I’ve spent so much time teaching the tools that are based on theory. What is really interesting is that professionals in lots of industries, in particular the VC industry, totally disregard them. Using derived cost of capital and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
value-add? That's number one. And then number two, to pause and really think about, "Where's my passion and my energy now? Where do I derive energy? What are the projects, the tasks, initiatives, things that I'm working on, where no one... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks, investment banks, and insurance companies were in each others’ businesses. “As a result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market for mortgage-related... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
insider’s advice, into his well-received 2008 book, Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China. But he derived his moniker, Mr. China, from a 2005 memoir with the same title penned by one of his former top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
2005) took alumni questions on the energy transition, adoption strategies, and the practical steps to a fossil fuel–free future. Nigeria is the sixth-largest producer of fossil fuel in the world, and its national economy derives 90... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
his greeting: "A general manager has a social responsibility that requires a professional response. I hope that your two years at the Harvard Business School will enable you to contribute an effective response to this serious challenge and that you View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer