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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... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
side so that empire can make its way. The Native family is not only cast aside but aligned with a felled tree, signifying an obstruction cleared. Such depictions, however, ignore the Native resistance to westward expansion in the US, including a Cheyenne attempt at... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
But he credits a dedicated community of social workers, as well as his birth and adopted families, with helping him eventually flourish. That gratitude helped spark his career in community service and his deep interest in exploring how... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
work was so hard, she wasn’t sure she would make it at first, she says, recalling a marketing professor who cold-called her to open a case she had not read. She faked it well enough, but the experience helped shape Oishi’s approach to... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
three days straight, but it was the best three days of my life—much better than flying to Europe and dealing with labor unions in France." Wolf Creek Farm produces 30 tons of beef a year for the local market, selling directly to consumers as View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
to Cerberus Capital Management in a bid to stay afloat. Even large chains, like Safeway, have struggled with generating high returns on invested capital, and Safeway has also been purchased by Cerberus Capital Management. Kroger, for its part, has done very View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
showed leader performance in the summer field training environment is predicted by Big Five extroversion, hardiness, and a trend for social judgment. During the academic period context, leader performance is predicted by mental abilities as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
firms, which by definition have enjoyed some measure of success, are more likely to deny new realities because the old ones worked well for them. Young enterprises are not similarly weighed down by the dead hand of history. But that does... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
produce and sell personal computers. They all learned the importance of being smart, effective stewards of themselves, their employees, and the opportunities and resources they controlled. They saw the importance of carrying out their responsibilities with integrity.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
to put the study rooms in the library instead of Spangler, and how many seats to put in the auditorium.” Ultimately, Spangler got 29 study rooms and a 350-seat auditorium. Essential Spangler: Warm weather always draws a crowd to the patio; the main lounge doubles as a... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Nigeria. It’s very rewarding to do well and see the range of lives we’re impacting—not just in Lagos, but across the country. Ultimately, that’s what keeps us here through the challenges. Back to top Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999)... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
of African Americans enslaved by the Cherokee, as well as those born into unions of the two groups. The Freedmen had struggled for decades to establish their rights as Cherokee citizens, and briefly gained those rights in 2006; in 2007,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
as president of a steel company before turning to the stage. “[Education] was not so much about, you know, doing well to get a good job. I guess that’s in everybody’s mind, but I always saw it as an incredible intellectual challenge.”... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
been stationed on the East Coast, rather than its Portland headquarters, and the choice was deliberate. Between her presence and experience, as well as her particular brand of service leadership, McKenna is already shifting the... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
some cases, because prior art citations are added by patent examiners as well as by patent applicants. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) adopted new reporting procedures in 2001, making it possible to measure examiner and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
substantially expanded social value, but also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operating styles as well as in scale. We examine three examples—Ben and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
online prevention program, which provides the information and resources for them to lead interactive classes on the abuse of opioids and heroin. The students watch a “Not Prescribed” video provided by a Colorado nonprofit that includes first-person testimony from... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
only ended up with a greener product, we also had one that was cheaper and performed better." He notes that in Europe his company now markets an aerosol product propelled by ordinary compressed air. Johnson's environmental activism continues View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
illustrates the potential for creative and strategic negotiation to overcome what many regard as impossibly high barriers—as well as the painful lesson that negotiating virtuosity plus the election of a charismatic leader hardly suffice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne