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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
ROBB: A luxury home in every glamorous port. Glenn Koenig/Los Angeles Times Set to launch in 2013, the $1.1 billion Utopia will be a cruise ship with a difference: About half its cabins will be sold as private residences, ranging in price... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Open Market Joyce I. Greenberg - Take Good Care Monique Maddy - African Communications Group Steven C. Walske - Parametric Technology Corp. Indeed, from "paperless" magazines to services that search for hard-to-find foreign news stories, from business-to-business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
choice. For Lopez, that has meant deploying a multifaceted strategy with an underlying premise: Make the customer feel at home while providing a sense of escape. "My career has always been about consumer persuasion," says Lopez, who came... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
homeowners have to put sweat equity into the construction of their house, and the homes of other Habitat families, and also purchase the house.” With the average cost of a Habitat View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
before I arrived. The Gap, Inc., our parent company, was struggling to find a niche for Banana Republic. They knew that the original safari theme was no longer working, and they were aware that they needed to make serious changes. When I got here we did some classical... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
instances where their home culture differs greatly from that of the United States. In her orientation discussions with newly arrived international students, Maureen Walker, associate director of Academic Services, invites them to talk... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
The Best Business Advice I’ve Ever Received
you either-- basically, it's the point of no return, where you either take off or you crash. And so I had a V1 marker that I wanted to have moonlighting revenue at half my salary. I'd have a business plan to get to the remaining half within a year. I'd have a View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
incidents, such as the suggestion by a colleague that she focus on the cosmetics industry when she became an equity analyst. Nevertheless, Havens-Hasty hurdled over Wall Street's gender chasm to become one of the most influential women in... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Hungary to help spot and address the needs of Ukrainian refugees. Bleier has used to network to find a family with two young children, who are being housed at his home in Vienna. “It's a small help, but we must especially support these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
attorney, put up seed money and became a silent partner. (Jardine is no longer involved in the company; his ideals soon clashed with the realities of a commercial venture.) Soon after, Coup and Kim moved to Boulder, the laid-back college town that’s View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
We're all working as a team to beat the odds, and when we have a commercial success, it's like hitting a home run." "The era of the swashbuckler with a hunch who hits it big and goes broke on alternating Sundays has been the stuff of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
residents were killed and homes and businesses along 35 square blocks of the city were destroyed at the hands of a white mob over the course of 18 hours. Unfounded accusations that a young Black shoe shiner had assaulted a white woman... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
content consumption (e.g., mobile, direct-to-consumer); and realize gains through theNFL Investment Fund, its recent partnership with Providence Equity Partners. Grubman is also heavily involved in the process of investigating whether new... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
have done this, you idiot. No. It might be a failure, but you did, according to your conscience, the right thing. That's what allows you to keep yourself up. I mean, you know, you come home and your friends and your people tell you you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
purchase. It was a home run with our customers. Instead of losing them, we developed immensely loyal customers. Sahlman: I took advantage of the opportunity to avoid upheaval by pursuing the only job from which you can't get fired!... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
of trying to go for those home runs all the time and the next Google or the next Facebook, you know, you can certainly make great returns when you go for singles and doubles. And we've seen that by having a diverse group of people, the... View Details