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- 01 Jun 1997
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Short Takes
statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
him are heroes, plain and simple, because they have the capacity to change the world for the better. “Tim recognizes the difficulty of effecting change, and the need to celebrate the people who do that work,” says Jennifer Fonstad (MBA 1997), a View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
on MBAs. Here’s a closer look at three of this year’s offerings. Investing for Impact Professor Shawn Cole, Finance, and Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi, General Management A rapidly growing share of asset owners and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2022
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A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
developed a new way to teach capital markets, resulting in wide-ranging course materials and a successful book, The Financial System (with the late HBS professor William White). He also wrote a number of articles and cases, including one... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
All Aboard
Railroad management used to be a hot topic at HBS, but that was a few decades before David Gunn (MBA '64) arrived at Soldiers Field. Too bad, because Gunn is a modern incarnation of the quintessential railroad man. These days, that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
experienced. Why did the SEC override strong industry opposition and require mutual-fund boards to appoint independent chairmen? The commission felt, and I strongly agree, that there’s an unacceptable conflict of interest when the chairman of the mutual-fund View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
almost the size of Kuwait. What’s clear, though, is that while this city is rich relative to the rest of the country , its city managers were miserly when it came to building the ribbons of roads and rail needed to bind its residents... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
educate leaders who will make a difference in the world, the Doctoral Programs educate people like Akinola who will educate future generations of business leaders. “We have a powerful multiplier effect,” says Doctoral Programs chair Mihir Desai, the Mizuho View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
financial world demands steady if not increasing margins. Disruptive innovations often promise lower margins than sustaining innovations. It is extraordinarily difficult for good managers to pursue worse... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Numbers Talk at Tesla
suddenly, sparking further investor concern. When Musk announced the appointment of an unknown 30-something as CFO, Tesla’s stock price tumbled. That was then. Two years later, Tesla’s financial picture is entirely different—and many are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
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As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
After 29 years with the family business, 55-year-old Abigail Johnson (MBA 1988) has been making a series of bold moves since assuming the role of chairman of Fidelity Investments in December 2016, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The privately held mutual... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
Frese's financial accounting class. I didn't even know what that day's case was but this was a supposed "safe class"—no cold-calling. Suddenly through my haze, I heard Professor Frese say: "Well, Mr. MacKinnon, perhaps you can tell us all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Martin V. Marshall Remembered
MARSHALL: A key force behind OPM. HBS professor emeritus Martin V. (“Marty”) Marshall (MBA 2/’47, DCS ’53), a driving force in the development of the School’s Owner/President Management Program (OPM) for entrepreneurs, died on February 16... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
the Journal of Financial Economics, a leading finance journal and joint sponsor of the two-day conference. "We're going to discuss the papers themselves to advance our understanding of the topic at hand," said Tufano in his opening... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
to be in property, and I’m going to do well enough to give you guys a job.’ My parents had no clue about what I was doing, and I really didn’t, either. I just knew that the work involved financial services, which felt aspirational. All... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Contrarian and Proud of It
Rogers: Stellar stock picker. Courtesy T. Rowe Price Brian Rogers (MBA ’82) has made a career out of being a contrarian. As manager of the $18.9 billion T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, the firm’s largest offering, Rogers has produced... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
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No Grand Plan, but a Clear Mission
been that person who has had it all planned out from the beginning,” Levine recently told The Australian Financial Review. Last year, Levine moved over to Instagram to serve as COO of the photo- and video-sharing social media site that... View Details