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- 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
the early days in what—thanks to him and his colleagues—became Silicon Valley. As Johnson describes it, he and his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954) formed their venture capital firm in 1962 and drove around the Santa Clara (now Silicon)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to avoid them. Based on a decade of research,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
financed by women, in an industry where women have been largely underrepresented in all of these roles,” says Mandelli, who is managing director of the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. “And the movie is a story about Wall... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the impact of the new economy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
settle into the new Science and Engineering Complex, which is right across the street from the Harvard Innovation Labs and adjacent to Harvard’s planned Enterprise Research Campus, the future home of company labs, startups, and venture... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
theater to give responsibility to a strongman or strongwoman at the top, I hope the intelligence community can resist that. A second possibility is that the DNI becomes a mere figurehead for the intelligence community and a new layer of... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
and new media coverage further inspire a broad spectrum of stakeholders to make board diversity a priority. “When we launched this, we wanted it to be a movement,” emphasizes Gerstner, who notes that the idea for the Board Challenge was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
exchange to Deckinger. “Holy $#!&,” Tongish wrote, “it’s your wife!” Tongish was right. Kushner and Deckinger married in 2007, while Kushner—who now goes by Deckinger—was pursuing her MBA at HBS. Today, the couple has three young girls and a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree with you. Why? As Jonah Lehrer... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
how hard this is on the low-income immigrant community. But part of me is optimistic and proud we can do something." JUNE 9 Kanoko Oishi (MBA 1988) is founder and CEO of Mediva Inc., a health care consulting firm in Japan that owns... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
Ballou-Aares told the Financial Times. HBS Professor Michael Porter, an advisor to Leadership Now who also signed the letter, noted that “business leaders need to throw their support [behind] democratic processes at a time when public tensions have risen.” As the View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
off his own consulting firm, Competitiveness.com, in 1993 to work exclusively on cluster competitiveness reinforcement projects. Consultant and Networker One of his firm’s first challenges was helping the 500-year-old leather industry in Catalonia to comply with the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
Schultz (MBA 1983) was working as an executive chairman for a tech company, and on his way home from a fundraising presentation at a venture firm when he had an epiphany. A longtime executive with a personal interest in history, he had... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Web Site) To position itself for the 21st century, the company is relying on the likes of Yves G. Martin (MBA '86), acting CEO of Club Med North America, and Nicolas C. Giraud (MBA '91), director of sales support, both of whom were hired in 1997 by Club Med's View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
Whether you are developing products, managing money, or facing clients, you need to understand a broader population than was required in the past. It is really important to figure out what traditions and what aspects of your company culture need to be shed and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
prices. Incomes were soaring, and by some measures about 1,000 new cars were being added to Jakarta streets every day. Not long after his graduation in 2011, Makarim joined Germany-based e-commerce investment View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
While James Hoagland is correct that in recent years there is a growing tendency to flip or resell buyouts after a rapid turnaround, the general experience is actually quite different. As I mentioned, holding periods and investment time horizons of many successful... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
entrepreneurs precisely because I know the risks. I think you should not do it precipitously. There's an aphorism in our industry that CEO is the new analyst, because a lot of young people want to be startup CEOs as opposed to taking... View Details