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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
Baker Library Historical Collections In the fall, the Baker Library / Bloomberg Center debuted an exhibit tracing the life of Georges Doriot (MBA 1922), one of HBS’s most storied professors. Well known by students for his popular... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
hardly any learning curve,” he says, still sounding surprised. “It was a good fit.” The investment business changed during his tenure at Lehman, and in 1976 he left and moved to Boston to launch Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, a venture capital firm he and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business
executive at a company where the numbers say you need to close a factory, which you know will have a devastating impact on the employees affected. If you don’t do it, however, your whole company may collapse. This dilemma mirrors the predicament faced View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change together. Hosted View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #16: Tim Murdoch, HBS MBA 1990 – Learning about Climate Change and Water
cites three books that are currently on his nightstand: “The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future” by Peter Gleick; “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Business Review, he published my relevant article “Where the Ruble Stops in Soviet Trade” (HBR, October 1986). Ted later introduced me to Paul Lawrence, the senior HBS professor in Organizational Behavior, with whom I would codirect the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Financial System, Professor David Moss’s course on the history of financial panics. It draws parallels to the current crisis. Consumer Finance, jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and HLS professor Howell Jackson, examines the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
industry—many of them HBS alumni. “If you think you know the story of the auto bailout, think again,” says Pietri. “This is what really happened.” Based on the book Crash Course, by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
republic was failing,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration. Moss is the author of the acclaimed 2017 book Democracy: A Case Study, which grew out of a popular Harvard course he created on the history... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
thousands of children in his native country. He went on fact-finding missions, acquiring intel from Vanessa Kirsch, CEO of New Profit, a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund supported by the Monitor Group and HBS professor Michael... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Art of Naming a Start-up
as an afterthought, caught our eye: “sonation.” Even before we looked up the definition, it sounded right. Its meaning made it even better. Sonation is the sound produced by birds not through their voice, but from other structures like... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
The first MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences cohort will enroll in the MS/MBA program in August of 2018.The program is a major collaboration between HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and will be co-chaired View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Black Investment Club
In 2020, Paul Ampofo (MBA 2020) and Brian Sykes (MBA 2020) founded the Black Investment Club at Harvard Business School to address the massive underrepresentation of Black investors in venture capital, private equity, and investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Business) Put Your Mindset to Work: The One Asset You Really Need to Win and Keep the Job You Love by James Reed (MBA ’90) and Paul G. Stoltz (Portfolio Trade) Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
now going to reward you with a trip to One if By Land, Two if By Sea, the most glamorous restaurant in Manhattan. And what I learned from it is never assume that what the bosses have done is right just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
firms employ to evaluate opportunities. Cathy Hughes, founder and chairman of Radio One, the largest African American– owned and operated broadcast company in the United States and the subject of an HBS case study, spoke at the opening reception. A team exercise led... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Edited by Linda Kush Fifty years ago, two Scotsmen started an HBS rugby team to help relieve the stress of studies. A look back at one of the School's most storied traditions. Photo courtesy of Mike Rush (MBA 1972) When the game of rugby... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
And monarchs tend to surround themselves with courtiers — that’ s the cronyism aspect. Some boards consist largely of people chosen by the CEO, and they’ re there to help each other out. Business is also like a monarchy in that the same... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
Two days after his Nobel Prize was announced, Professor Merton spoke with Bulletin editor Deborah Blagg in his Morgan Hall office, where imposing stacks of scholarly journals had been displaced temporarily by a garland of colorful... View Details