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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
Baker Scholar, James accepted a position as controller at his father's firm, by then a 75-person financial planning company that was called, as a result of a merger, Raymond James View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
a direct effect on retention of existing clients and can have a significant impact on acquiring new business. The result is that satisfaction is based on how well an institution meets and exceeds a customer's expectations in every... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
$134,438 for the Class of 2005. Another uptick was measured in the number of graduates entering the financial services industry, with a shift from 36 percent to 42 percent. Kierstead observes that the Class of 2006 is the first to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
required reductions in bank leverage—have resulted in a financial system that is much safer today than it was 15 years ago, Associate Professor Sam Hanson says. “But no one should be declaring that we’ve won... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What a Difference a Community Can Make
As chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, I am honored to have worked with all of you and thrilled that our collective efforts have been so successful to create a solid financial foundation for Harvard Business School’s future.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
and social impact of alumni founder activity, board service, and volunteerism. Here is a selection of results for HBS alumni. Entrepreneurship *In addition to the annual revenue generated by organizations founded by HBS alumni, graduates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Seeing Things Others Don’t
impressive results as he has moved in and out of stocks with an uncanny ability to anticipate their ups and downs amid the economy’s twists and turns. Said a colleague, “How do you explain genius? Ken just sees things others don’t.” View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building business for a better Brazil
Jorge Paulo Lemann (AB 1961) has built a career focused on strengthening the financial markets of Brazil. As a senior partner of Banco Garantia, he was the leading force for 25 years behind Brazil’s premier investment bank. Lemann... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
nature of the investors, the structure of the investments, and the performance of the firms. Their findings suggest that there are risks in combining banking and private equity investing. The results are consistent with many of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Rating Better
Three finance professors have devised a new mutual fund rating system that appears to do a better job of separating fund managers whose performance reflects genuine ability from those whose results depend on luck alone. The authors of the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
vehicles, Mahindra has engineered mergers and acquisitions that have catapulted the Mumbai-based corporation onto the world stage. Today, the multibillion-dollar enterprise is involved in information technology, logistics, infrastructure development, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
shatter every firm that might conceivably pose a systemic threat in a crisis. Large financial institutions create a danger, to be sure, but many also deliver valuable services. And even if we wished to take all of them apart, it’s... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
the Bridge program—and affected its hard-built reputation. In addition to reputational consequences, there are negative financial ramifications resulting from handling a layoff badly, Sucher notes.... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Dean Nohria: Business Schools have a Vital Role in Teaching Trust
In a recent opinion piece in The Financial Times, Dean Nitin Nohria outlines the School’s commitment to educating leaders who are “deeply committed to values and ethics.” “Business schools—including HBS—must teach students how to be... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
electronically search past records, freeing her to talk in more detail with her patient. Bushkin’s business model for MedKaz aligns the financial interests of all parties. Patients save deductibles and copays. Employers, insurers, and... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
says, involves her role on the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her suggestion to HMS about how to structure the relationship between the hospitals and HMS differently resulted in $36 million in payments to HMS. “In... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers
graduates of Harvard University. Five candidates will be elected, with the results to be announced in June. Spangler has devoted much of his life to education, recently retiring after eleven years as president of the University of North... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
right to have it," Mark explained. "But not much has been done to increase the supply and quality of the supply of water and to be able to economically allocate it to the right locations." Mark grew up on a farm and as a result was savvy... View Details