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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
rebuilding harder-to-serve urban neighborhoods in a broader way than just housing. And I get excited thinking about it. And I wake up at night fearful that we won't succeed because it's so important to get this to happen. Richard Linowes,... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Working PapersHedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers Authors:Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor Abstract We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
I came to HBS with an interest in social impact but without any specific career convictions. Over the past year, the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) has been especially influential in guiding my career choices. Most tangibly, SEI helped me find my summer internship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
food—Helen Mirren (phonetically, ‘pepper’ in Hindi) and Om Puri (a popular Indian puffed bread). A page-turner that will make you hungry.” —Professor Rohit Deshpandé, on The Hundred-Foot Journey, by Richard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. “The case highlights some... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur, corporate titan, and death-defying balloonist, touched down at HBS last fall to share his wit and wisdom with a large Burden Hall audience. Branson, founder and chairman of the Virgin Group, a... View Details
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2020
2014), and is the subject of a case written by professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff. “ What matters most for me is having the chance to help solve the ‘brain-drain’ problem plaguing many African... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Marketing Muscle
side of the world, Fabiola Arredondo (MBA '92) has established local Yahoo! Web portals from Italy to Scandinavia. Cited as one of twenty "Trend-Setting Women" in the November 1999 issue of Tornado-Insider.com, Arredondo's leadership style as managing director of... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
Press, proposes that entrepreneurial thinking will be the key to government’s ability to solve big problems (written by Professor of Management Practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow Mitchell B.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
offered by HBS Executive Education every summer. The program with the broadest content and largest number of scholarship recipients is Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM). It helps nonprofit executives sharpen leadership... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
return home to Queens, NY, to both complete her first-year MBA studies online, and launch an e-commerce site to help her parents’ small business, Bean&Bean Coffee Roasters, stay afloat. “It’s been surreal. This morning, I had a Finance class on a mining company in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
I am thrilled to address you in my new role as president of the HBSAA Board of Directors. I look forward to using this vehicle to update you regularly on the work of the Alumni Board as well as other programs of note to the greater alumni community. Because the work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
of Fortune: What Rich People Have That You Don’t Want by Richard Watts (OPM 31, 2002) ((Emerald Book Company)) Nude Nuns and Other Peculiar People: A Collection of Stories from the Heartland View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion infrastructure upgrade View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) Following the success of their 1996 bestseller, The Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton have published a new book... View Details
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Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
repeatedly use and reference proved another effective way to keep a product’s name in the mind of the consumer. Business cards, postcards, holiday greeting cards, and books of songs, recipes, or medical advice, all created for “gratuitous distribution” View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
IT Management from 1960 to 2000 "Today¹s managers are grappling with the turbulent dynamics of the Information Age," says Richard L. Nolan, the School's William Barclay Harding Professor of Management of Technology. The author of a new... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
Illustrations by Greg Clarke Recent alumni may not believe it, but there was a time when it was the Written Word — more so than cold calls or attacks of classroom amnesia — that struck fear in the hearts of HBS students. Every two weeks,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons