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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Ruback, Baker Foundation Professor, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus Anthem Press Private Equity is an advanced corporate finance book that integrates a range of topics from a private equity investor’s perspective. The book View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
three days, though.’ Sometimes, confusion—even being shaken to one’s roots—can be a good thing.” Reasonable expectations: “In baseball, the best hitters average .330 or .370. You don’t have to bat a thousand to stand out, to be good at something.” Managed Risk... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
ago. We’re also seeing more Chinese students applying to our high schools. These young scholars are often China’s best and brightest, and they are bringing back ideas and outlooks that present challenges to the current government, which... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
useful research project could focus on the role of venture capital in financing and nurturing high potential ventures in the Valley. Presently staffed with a director and a full-time senior researcher, the Center will provide... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
provide solutions to the present problems. We dealt with this in the class of 2009 and we all are stronger and better and just had our 10 year reunion and loved seeing one another. So you will be OK. But I would say use this opportunity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
also debuted Go-Car, a four-wheeled competitor to Grab and Uber, last spring and closed a $550 million funding round in August. To date, the only clear winners in this on- demand battle are consumers like Tommy Prabowo. Prabowo is a radio View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
or place. Although the choice for business schools that Biddle presented nearly a century ago has yet to be decisively made, a number of factors suggest that all is not well within the institution of the university-based business school:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
ourselves,” Coup says. “We aim to be about twenty times our present size in five years in terms of sales. In terms of personnel, we’ll probably be only two or three times our current size.” Keeping the company in Boulder and operating... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
many members of the Tech Club, startups will be their entry into the tech world. That often means raising venture capital, which presents another major barrier to women’s entry into the field as founders and CEOs. Raising venture capital,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
must be prepared to do whatever it takes. Exceed Expectations Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) DURING THE FIRST OR SECOND WEEK of his first-year managerial economics course, Professor John Pratt gave us a pop quiz. Data were presented and three... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search will only present more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
attention of business, which has always been part of the solution to global problems. That’s another great opportunity that these times present for us as a business school. “I see my agenda as ushering in a new century of innovation for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Voices" because it felt a responsibility to share this innovative presentation with the public. Fri is happy to report that "nonprofit institutions occasionally are able to do the right thing just because it is the right thing." View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
fuel.” (courtesy Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux) BVP’s Sunil Nagaraj has sat in on more than 100 presentations from space companies in the past 12 months, noting that the breadth of businesses demonstrates the vitality of the new space... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
ensuring high-quality care across the system. The arrival of COVID-19, he says, presented “the challenge of a lifetime.” In addition to gaining a deep appreciation of frontline health care providers, says Hatanaka, Ontario Health has... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Well, I think, our life's greatest obstacles present us the most opportunity. What fun would life be if we never faced any adversity? What sense of fulfillment would we have if we never had an obstacle to overcome? What sort of growth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or... View Details