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- 01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map
You just can't see that far," says John D. Pratt (MBA '71), associate director and chief financial administrator of the Whitehead Institute. "Yet, if you're financing a new research facility, for example, sound planning generally requires... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
redesigned in a manner that would make Martha Stewart proud — and also gives an outsider a hint that she’s not exaggerating. During her New York days, Reade specialized in buying and selling firms that had gone bankrupt or were in View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Prof’s Dream Comes True
1968; President Obama announced its restoration in early September. All taxpayers need to do is check a box when filing their return directing the IRS to distribute their refunds as savings bonds. “Research shows that making it easy for... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
for a way to bring his Harvard business skills to bear on a cause he believed in. That led to a post as the CFO of New Hampshire Audubon, where he “quickly fixed some problems due to lack of financial controls” and put the organization on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
chairman of global private equity investing at Goldman Sachs, Sanjeev observes, “Every business in the world is interacting with science and engineering today. There’s a tremendous need for managers to become more conversant in how... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
resources than government. The enthusiasm of private parties for various approaches to solving social problems needs to be tempered by an overall concern for the interests of society. Schell: I think that in almost every case the free... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at woman-founded startup and venture... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
visions of what it means to retire. (We didn’t come up with a better word, although one member of the Class of 1958 referred to a state of “re-inspirement” in his 45th Reunion book.) What the five seem to have in common — aside from a level of View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
must be adapted to the special needs of different types of healthcare organizations. Essays for my Father: A Legacy of Passion, Politics, and Patriotism in Small-Town America by Richard Muti (MBA 1971) (Richard Muti) Capital: Adventures... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
the incredible dysfunction. In 2018 we are exclusively focused on one of the most dysfunctional bodies in government: the US House of Representatives. “Longer term, we plan to support next-generation veterans running for state, local, and other federal offices,”... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its Alliance Capital Management unit... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
such as telecommunications and financial services are replacing the consumer goods industry as the testing ground of marketing innovation. To keep pace with these dramatic shifts in the business world, says Quelch, "marketing researchers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
IBM PCs in advance of their market introduction. We used Lotus 1-2-3 for spreadsheets, and we proudly whipped out our HP 12C calculators with their vast array of financial and statistical functions (which we mostly didn’t View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
plans that are easy to apply. It highlights why marketing plans matter and where they go wrong and explains how to create a powerful plan that will help build a strong, profitable business. More than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
federal policy would really be helpful to create a uniform landscape for the capital markets and the technologies to respond to.” Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002) and VP of infrastructure, energy and environment at the Business Roundtable—which... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
One and the Same
Australia’s gender wage gap, which shows that women earn 14.2 percent less than men. COVID, she notes, has highlighted the need for greater flexibility, inclusion, and equality in the workplace. “From a company perspective, it’s getting... View Details