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- 06 Dec 2013
- News
Prescription: Leverage Human Nature
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In
a continuation of my efforts at National Grid Partners with private capital backing that gives me the resources to have an impact beyond the mandate of a single company. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
ones that I like is SpaceX, because again, in experimentalism you tend to think: can’t be done in heavy industry. Space is the heaviest industry. What SpaceX has done is remarkable. In the course of only 20 years, they’ve taken NASA’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
culminated during the January term in Italy, where students learned about the roots of capitalism and how the renowned House of Medici devised accounting standards still used... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
education and entrepreneurship.” LeFebvre went on to become cofounder and managing partner for AIC International Investments. Then, in 2006, he founded 3.5.7.11, a privately owned equity investment firm. It has raised more than $1 billion in institutional View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups
Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from the global hedge fund leader on... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
work for a startup has anywhere near the resources that a venture capital firm is going to have to do that kind of due diligence, nor do they actually have the time to do it, because usually you get an offer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
substances and stress. —Cecile Seth (MBA 1994) Excerpt Open Secret In his new book Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System, Raymond Baker (MBA 1960) examines... View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
by the traditional market and sells food baskets at a fraction of the cost of "perfect" produce. As the first female-funded VC firm in the region, MAYA View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
a cost of customer acquisition that has more than doubled. In addition to managing those challenges, HBS Online is focused on staying engaged in the market, experimenting with emerging trends like AI, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
dumping its waste directly into the ocean. The ensuing shift to landfills and incinerators led to mounting environmental concerns, which the city off-loaded by sending its trash to be buried or burned in places as far afield as Pennsylvania and Ohio—a practice that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
that I became a staunch, careful value investor. I’ve always had the tendency to go for the 60,000-foot view. If you do that, you realize that the great bubbles of history have been massive and obvious. But while their breaking is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
dilemma while participating in the second semester required course The Entrepreneurial Manager taught by Shikhar Ghosh, the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice and the faculty cochair View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
came very close to costing me an entire career. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asked this year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
payments to its pension fund and drawn down all the fund’s cash until there was nothing left but a $50 billion unfunded liability. Capital markets had deemed the island an unacceptable risk. “They had lost access to traditional capital,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
The recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Awards, whom Dean Srikant Datar recognized during the HBS graduation ceremony on May 23, 2024, are: Peter Crisp (MBA 1960) John Hess (MBA 1977) Desiree Rogers (MBA 1985) Gerald Schwartz (MBA... View Details
- 25 Jul 2023
- News
Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott
In a recent profile in the Australian Financial Review, Rob Scott (AMP 179, 2010), CEO of Australian conglomerate Wesfarmers, discussed his career path and management philosophy. “I actually think that one View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
resources beyond his current control to pull the project together. He successfully raced to get TV Guide's TV Game distributed to both high-end and discount retailers (priced accordingly) in time for Christmas 1984—and just ahead of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
manufacturing into Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, and China, have been profitable, allowing Ayala to post a 57 percent rise in net income in the first half of 2007. Asiamoney magazine recently named Ayala the best-managed large View Details