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- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
and members of the American public. According to the authors, America retains and enjoys many strengths. However, various economic indicators show that the US economy has failed to deliver strong growth and shared prosperity for nearly... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur, corporate titan, and death-defying balloonist, touched down at HBS last fall to share his wit and wisdom with a large Burden Hall audience. Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
year as a research-based platform to address topics of worldwide import to business, BiGS integrates and amplifies work currently underway at HBS and sparks new avenues of inquiry. In the case of climate change, that means exploring ways to View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
Miwa Seki (left) and Yumiko Murakami Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui shared the same birthday month and year, so they started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
risks where the payoff wasn't obvious. After HBS, he opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston—and watched commuters stream by in the morning until he added fresh croissants and baguettes, both novelties at the time. That store would become... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the companies that we fund. They're the ones who View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
weren’t quite ready to give up their mansions yet. How did luxury apartment buildings come to define New York’s skyline and power structure? By 1900, you saw the super affluent moving into apartment buildings on Fifth Avenue. They were going vertical. They were going... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
costs at $200 million a day. What's more, a strike would cost the pilots and other employees their salaries. The airline would lose tens of millions of dollars daily and risk losing market share to its... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
the second?" Johnson shared this and other tales of "active patience" with an audience of some six hundred HBS alumni at the 1998 HBS Global Alumni Conference held in Chicago June 16-19. A lifelong entrepreneur and philanthropist, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Iraq military service in bestselling books, have shared their leadership skills and experience both inside and outside the classroom, as have other HBS military veterans. Collectively, the Armed Forces Alumni Association continues to be... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
members were unwilling to find, and upload, their DD 214, the Department of Defense form that verifies military service, in order to prove their service. They were also reluctant to share their DD 214 because it includes their social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
is now one of the three largest executive search firms in the world, with billings of almost $300 million last year. At the 2002 HBS Alumni Achievement Awards panel discussion, held in Burden Auditorium October 3, award recipient Margie Yang View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
represent the USA by continually competing around the world, at the highest level of the sport, so I feel like it’s my obligation to share it with as many disabled people and their families as possible,” he says. The nonprofit, which... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
circumstances under which companies can, in terms of the environment, most successfully create value or lessen business risk. (An example of value created and risk reduced might be found with a newly developed, disease-resistant plant... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
to top management in companies of five hundred or fewer employees. He then shared some of his findings. “All companies that start small, whether they grow tremendously or stay modest in size, deal with the question of how to put systems... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
alike are increasingly relying on whistleblowers to prevent and investigate fraud, the professors realized, there is little understanding about the real risks faced by an employee who steps forward. Dey and Heese set out to study the... View Details