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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
board chairman role to begin working on a related venture, a mutual bank to support lending to local food and farming businesses.) The changes slashed errors in half and doubled their packing speed. Operations have increased six-fold in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
depended on bank loans instead of equity, creating the illusion that money was in infinite supply. That led Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to make bad investments. I decided we should do something about them immediately." As a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
intern with us, and at the time we were doing business development, someone had set us up with a meeting at a bank. So we go to this meeting, and I clearly present myself as the CEO and founder, and I present my male classmate as my business development intern. And the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
achieving firsts,” he says. “Now we’re taking proven business models and applying them to a new approach to space.” Akshay Patel (MBA 2010), who left an investment banking position at Morgan Stanley last year to become VP of strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
managing partner of Ironwood Capital Partners; Ajmal Ahmady (MBA 2007), senior adviser on banking and finance to the President of Afghanistan; and Tariq Qureishy (GMP 3, 1998), CEO, futurist, and entrepreneur. The Harvard Crossroads event... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related services (such as the recent... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Chris F. Liebenberg (100th AMP), chairman of Nedcor, a major South African banking group, and Michael Levett, chairman of Old Mutual, an insurance firm. Nedcor and Old Mutual are both diamond sponsors of the conference. Finally, an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
students, some 80,000 teachers, and an annual budget of more than $12 billion. Bloomberg’s commitment to change helped convince Shannon D. Kete (MBA 2000) to make the leap from investment banking into the public sector last February.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
By Ken Wilcox (MBA 1983) Wiley The former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Ken Wilcox shares the firsthand challenges encountered in his four years of trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the Chinese government to fund... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
health through the cultivation of local, fresh food. Outside of Syracuse, New York, Braiding the Sacred includes a refrigerated seed bank of more than 4,000 varieties of corn. When Keen asked if the group had any Omaha Rainbow Flint corn,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
element comes in," explains Ghosh, "with the software validating the person's credit information through electronic links with banks around the country, while at the same time protecting that card number from being accessed by anyone... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Green (MBA 1976) and Andrea P. Howe (Wiley) Twilight Reflections: Where the Elderly Find God by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981), helped by Kimi Tomaszek (CreateSpace) Swan Wait by Gwen Keane (PMD 50, 1985) (Keane Writers Publishing LLC) The Best Book On Investment View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Greenspan’s tacit approval, used previously unexploited provisions in the Glass-Steagall and Bank Holding Company acts to push through a merger that ultimately changed the regula-tory environment for the entire U.S. financial services... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
computers loaded with out-of-date information sat amid rows of overflowing filing cabinets. "Our most fundamental problem was that we didn't have accurate, up-to-date taxpayer records," he says. "We were like a bank that couldn't tell you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
article see a project through from start to finish. They find a story and package it with any combination of a writer, director, or star before pitching it to investors or one of the big studios. If they’re successful in assembling financing (through equity, presales... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
I first came to HBS, I knew it was already considered the world’s greatest business school. What I didn’t know was what an MBA degree was, or even what the initials stood for. More surprises: I soon found that the School was in a shaky financial condition, reduced to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
especially when I am in transit. Is there a talent that you wish you had? There are many. I’d like to have been a long-distance runner. I wish I could read more quickly and retain every word. What makes you the proudest in your career to date? My two terms at the World... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee drew on recent World Bank survey data on 3,899 Chinese firms. He and HBS professor Tarun Khanna have analyzed the data to find predictive indicators for business success and guides for investors to... View Details