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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
exaggerated." by James E. Aisner (Adapted from the Winter 1999 edition of Working Knowledge, a publication of the HBS Division of Research.) The Real Estate Game by William J. Poorvu with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (Free Press) The multitrillion dollar real-estate industry... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
later revealed to be 3 million viewers in just one year. Ruggiero, four-time women’s hockey Olympian and gold medalist, was on the board of the US Olympic Committee and a member of the International Olympic Committee, where she was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
of antique mustard pots to posters from the Napa Valley Mustard Festival, where the company's product has earned more than a few gold medals. Less expected is the sculpture of a phoenix that graces the office of Plochman's president,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
investment,” he says. “Harvard has the power to be a catalyst for change. It is the gold standard.” “I think that making a gift to Harvard has the highest return on investment. Harvard has the power to be a catalyst for change.” “I think... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
Lang Related Links “It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t”: New research by HBS associate professor Jordan Siegel finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
have similarly discovered over the past 25 years. By supporting Lang's creativity and unconventional thinking, high-tech startups and established computer firms alike have found their assets turning to gold under her fingers. "I've always... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
registration begins W Seattle Hotel HBS professor Leslie Perlow will discuss “Rethinking Work and Family: Challenges and Opportunities.” Washington, D.C. Thursday, April 21, 2005; 5:30 p.m. registration begins Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. HBS professor Stuart Gilson... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Refined metals like gold and silver have a standard quality and are priced on global exchanges like the London Metal Exchange. But concentrates vary widely in terms of quality—some rocks have more copper than others, some come with... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
well-known multinational mining companies such as Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines to develop the Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, one of the largest recently discovered such deposits in the world. The business environment has become more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
side or the support side (equipment suppliers, startup consultants, etc.)? Over history, some of the most successful ventures were launched on the support side. (Some people who made the most money during the gold rush sold picks and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
beginning of the last great surge in oil and gold prices. That fact alone provides a powerful justification for the study of financial history. From The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson. Reprinted by... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Square, I think when I got one of my first checks and I was gonna be really stylish, and really important. And I bought a gold Rolex watch. And so I'm in the elevator, going to a presentation and Perella looks over at me and says,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
getting swept up in trends. "I think an entrepreneur should beware of so-called hot fields," says Bhide, who coteaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurial Management. "The Internet feeding frenzy, for example, resembles the California gold... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
Why do you think that is? White: It's so bizarre to have a modern day gold rush kind of you know wild west thing happen in modern history. After all, we're talking about something that happened, in this case, 35, 37 years ago. You can... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
China with a gold rush mentality, without doing the thoughtful analysis and planning they would have done elsewhere," she observes. Franklin notes that she earned the goodwill of many Chinese business and government officials during her... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
know it, and didn’t know that that was one of our superpowers,” reflects Hoffman. “We realized that we just had this gold mine—several thousand people who were Harvard grads, Kellogg grads, major philanthropists, inventors, investors,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Carroll Illustration by Dennis Balogh Founded as a gold mining company in 1917 in South Africa by Ernest Oppenheimer (with help from Herbert Hoover and J. P. Morgan), Anglo American plc is the world’s fourth-largest diversified mining... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
districts and community colleges and creating apprenticeships. I'm not talking about jobs tourism, “Come on a field trip to my company.” I'm talking about compensated work to gain work experience and earn credentials. Such programs are the absolute View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
restructured John’s Island’s management company, Community Condominium Services, Inc., by reducing costs while improving services and its hurricane protection practices. At the John’s Island Club, he was a regular speaker and co-chair of the history-focused View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading
sport, and the comradeship generated among teammates. I actually have my own boys-in-the-boat story. Twenty years after the University of Washington team won its gold medal in the 1936 Olympics, I was the coxswain of the Yale crew that... View Details