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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
percent of men. As she enters her second year at LinkedIn, Tanaka hopes to keep building the platform’s stature within the Japanese business community. She believes the transparency and learning opportunities it offers have the power to transform the View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class.” “At our house, every dinner table discussion was like a BGIE class.” After graduating from Columbia University with a double major in economics and mathematics, Dasgupta worked... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
In 1996, Alejandro Ramirez (MBA 2001) was poised to accept one of two coveted spots in the U.N. Junior Professional Officer Program. For Ramirez, who had spent the previous fifteen months conducting research on economic and human... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
changed rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it did later that spring,” recalls Diagne. “I had no idea that job would turn into pandemic response and economic recovery.” Worldwide, crisis... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
into the game. It meant that money, and lots of it, was everywhere. But as the economy hit the skids in the spring of 2022, that optimism faltered. High inflation, spiking consumer prices, and uncertainty in the stock market caused View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
about the latter two activities to this day. After studying economics at Cornell, Klarman headed to Wall Street to join Mutual Shares Corporation, where he worked closely with Max Heine and Mike Price, two legendary figures in the area of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
extension, cultivate peace and economic opportunity in a region where growing saffron has become a more viable alternative to growing opium. “What better way to use our HBS education than for sustainable agriculture and business in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Feb 2020
- News
Women less inclined to self-promote than men, even for a job
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
immediate revenue generation. My advice is to prioritize solid unit economics from the outset and build steadily, without compromising for rapid scale. This doesn’t mean you can’t be innovative in your scaling approach. Various partners... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
marketplace. Mikitani takes a break between conference calls. Mikitani himself learned to speak English at the age of seven when his family spent two years in Connecticut while his father taught economics at Yale. After earning a degree... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
today from the Panic of 1907? It demonstrates at least six regularities of financial crises. First, crises tend to afflict vulnerable financial systems. Vulnerability often follows an economic boom, a period of real growth that morphs... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
of Mexico shrimp fisherman who stayed in business with low-interest economic injury loans after the BP oil spill, to a Pennsylvania drill bit manufacturer whose SBA-financed technology was instrumental in rescuing the trapped Chilean... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
Facebook and Google, for example, own user data and keep 100 percent of profits with advertisers. In Web3, companies share revenue with users. “This is a new way to organize economic activity and incentivize humans,” Wu says about the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
on practical economic grounds. You want a strong economy, a strong country, and, if you’re anything like me, a strong stock market. Well, note first that stocks do better under Democratic administrations than Republican. (“You can look it... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean feat in 1962," Fisher recalls.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
trucking-tech company, has a simple goal: Get goods where they need to go as efficiently as possible with a limited labor force. For TuSimple, that means a focus not on the cities themselves, but rather on the long stretches of highway... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
announced it had agreed to sell Tropicana to Pepsico, Inc. for over $3 billion. Asked by Pepsico to stay on, Marram had not yet made her plans public.) One of Business Week's "Top 25 Managers" of 1998, Marram graduated from Wellesley College in 1968 with a degree in... View Details