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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
turned on the power in a village in Sierra Leone in 2019, there was communal joy. Poindexter: The chief of the village, he had a stereo, he had a TV, he had a ceiling fan, but he ran all of these things off of a really expensive old... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
leadership skills were apparent. After the collapse of the tech stock market, Trilogy bought pcOrder back as a subsidiary, and Jones led the acquisition integration team. Now 34 and single, Jones’s next start-up may hit home with many in... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
programs and launch new careers. That’s a heavy burden, and we don’t take it lightly.” How are you trying to, as your LinkedIn profile states, “fix education,” and what will success look like to you? “For the most part, people have two View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
hairdryer, and a fully stocked bar, to name a few amenities). Fine wines and gourmet cuisine featuring fresh, local in-gredients like lobster and passion fruit are standard fare, as are on-demand activities that run from deep-sea fishing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is a myth, and how eliminating options leads to more choice. In the Spirit of Napa by Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) (Assouline Publishing) Rasier surveys Napa’s great local culinary establishments, legendary wine pioneers and cult labels,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
skills tied to specific disciplinary knowledge that are increasingly vacuous and superfluous.” And HBS professor Rakesh Khurana contends that many business schools have been complicit in creating recent corporate scandals by turning out graduates fixated on shareholder... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
limited? Do you seek new avenues for expansion? Is the timing opportune to consider such a quest? Fenno includes a broad range of diversification options supported by numerous practical examples of companies of all sizes that have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
batteries, the most expensive component of EVs. GM has already begun rolling out the Bolt, a hatchback that can travel 238 miles on a single charge and costs around $30,000—a combination of range and affordability that promises for the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Matsubara clinic also has 18 beds for in-patient services, an option that Sato-san has exercised for one week each month since July, mainly to ease the burden of his care on his wife. Dr. Umeda and the nurse eventually set a date for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
which HBS faculty are already studying. While one faculty member, for example, might look at the role that stock options played in a company that failed after it went public, another might investigate how a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
business plan for Exchange.com, an online marketplace for rare and hard-to-find items he founded upon graduating and sold to Amazon.com for a reported $200 million in stock seven months later. Leschly counts himself among the new network... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including Pakistan or Tajikistan, or use an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
some of that will be directed to the state and city for expenses already incurred. The LMDC has received an initial $2 billion, targeted for infrastructure needs, such as rebuilding the subway and commuter train lines destroyed at Ground... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
lifestyle is just incredibly pleasant,” says Gordon. “But I think as Michael and I were taking stock of that, I really had this feeling that this is not what I actually want to get out of life.” There was this chance to not only be on the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Joseph Landon VP and CFO, Planetary Resources “Everything we consider precious on earth is available in limitless quantities in space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Which is fine for small satellites, but what about the bigger, more View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
government regulators, who repeatedly threatened to put ARD out of business. The Securities & Exchange Commission, to cite one example, ruled that ARD officers could not hold stock options in client... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
recruited by Morgan Stanley, where she built and marketed systems to evaluate options strategies, risk models, and stock valuation models, and then to Paine Webber, where in the early 1990s she helped build... View Details