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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
as money-market funds. Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink: Why 40% of Your Business Is Unprofitable, and How to Fix It by Jonathan L.S. Byrnes (DBA ’80) (Penguin Portfolio) Given the uncomfortable truth that it’s possible, even easy,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
letters to Bay Area companies, he landed a summer job at Dodge & Cox, an investment management company headquartered in San Francisco. “The top three people there were HBS alums,” he remembers. “That summer job turned into a career.” Over... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Other Promotions New Associate Professors (and the faculty units to which they belong) include Bharat Anand (Strategy), Amy C. Edmondson (Technology and Operations Management), and Jonathan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
that the attacks had caused financial damage that went well beyond losses in passenger revenues, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (September 20, 2001) reported. "Many insurance companies have notified airlines of astronomic premium increases,"... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
Angela Newnam (MBA 1996) did not set out to be an entrepreneur. But the self-described former “career gal” and mother of three became one by envisioning what she could not find: sexy, comfortable underwear that absorb odor and wick away moisture. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong The novel coronavirus did more than disrupt jobs, supply chains, and financial markets, says HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé. The pandemic has also upended how View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
A Roundabout Path To achieve his vision of becoming a clean-energy entrepreneur, PhD biologist Jonathan Friedlander (MBA 2017) left Paris for HBS to understand best business practices. But he would have struggled to obtain an MBA without... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
essentially outsourced and privatized. “In some eerie way, it looks like we are going back to the future,” he concluded. “If you want to buy a home today, you better have great credit. You better have a down payment.” Regulation Failed HBS senior lecturer Clayton View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Management Update Launched
Walter Kiechel (MBA/JD '77), a prominent business journalist, was named Harvard Business Review's new publisher in January. For almost two decades, Kiechel was on the masthead of Fortune as he rose up the ranks from reporter/researcher in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
capital to highly motivated workers anxious to put aside the past and to justify the decision by GM - the world's largest automobile manufacturer - to invest in them and their community. Eisenach, Hughes believes, is an example of how GM and other Western View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
program in the 1960s to his role today as president and CEO of Pioneer Group, which creates affordable housing through the renovation and preservation of historic buildings in the American Midwest. Freeman grew up in a small Kansas town, the son of an hourly employee... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
encourages others to "be passionate," and to "collect good people around you." The words gain credence through Kraft because he is a living example of his playbook. The Kraft Group is a family business run by Kraft and sons Jonathan (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
strategy to develop 32 franchises that are strong in their markets and appealing as national and international brands." One such mega-franchise is the New England Patriots, led by owner Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and his son Jonathan (MBA... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
William M. Allen, Boeing’s chief executive at the time, was asked to meet with us because Vertol, a helicopter company acquired by Boeing, was far behind schedule with the vitally needed Chinook helicopter. Allen reassigned his best... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
explains, "the 1980s were very challenging times for the U.S. textile industry. They enabled us to see clearly which companies did smart things in response to adverse conditions and which did not." Coding this information for ownership... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
K1 Investment Management, is leading an effort in his investment firm to give time off for voting for all K1 employees and over 5,000 portfolio company employees. K1 recently announced election day as a paid holiday on LinkedIn. “People... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
people to buy into a new vision or better way of doing things is my favorite kind of challenge.” Today, as CEO of the Kraft Analytics Group (KAGR), a Massachusetts-based tech-intensive company focused on data management, strategic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg