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- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
strategy revolution was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate, in particular, the three Cs central to any good strategy: the company’s costs, especially costs relative to other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the French exiles and describes their businesses and their successes. “Once you have been trained to be a management consultant, writing comes relatively easily. One gets used to thinking and putting one’s thoughts together whenever time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
finished a master’s degree in sociology at Oxford University. “I didn’t even know what a ticker was,” recalls Landles-Dowling, who double-majored in math and music at Wellesley College. “But it turned out that analyzing companies was something I was View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
corporate gamesmanship and dizzying sums associated with M&A; activity, for the business scholar, such deals are often more interesting as windows inside organizations, revealing how they adapt and perform in times of dramatic change.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance in large school districts. But... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
as well as a relatively new handset technology. The capital intensity made the company vulnerable to external markets. Taken separately, these risks were manageable. Taken together, they added up to failure. The personal lessons ran even... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
(MBA 1984) Draper Fisher Jurvetson Draper Associates Driving against Type I passed on CarGurus back when it was a young company. It is now public and trading at $4.7 billion. At the time, the company was raising money at a very high price View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
private equity then exploring the evidence on performance of private equity investments at both the portfolio company level and fund level, documenting the creation of economic value. The book then presents a set of actionable frameworks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
relative handful of African Americans and women on campus daily confronted cultural problems that could not be solved with a slide rule and pencil. READ MORE Steve Belkin Eve Benton Mike Feeley Ed Mathias Joe O'Donnell READ MORE Steve... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg