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- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks about his growing interest in... View Details
Charles Erwin Wilson
Despite his reluctance to produce military goods, Wilson was nonetheless an excellent manager during World War II and helped his company garner over $14 billion worth of military contracts. In the post war... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- Profile
Benjamin Story
different education that would enable me to go in-depth in the management issues. I wanted to merge the creative process with a rigorous business education." HBS appealed to Ben for many reasons. "I didn't want to specialize.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Leadership The Pitch The News Saathi Cofounder and CFO Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Founded 2015 Almost 3 million women in India don’t have access to sanitary pads. Saathi’s environmentally friendly pads, made from banana fiber... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
producers and farmers and giving them an equal voice in the process,” Johnson-Hoffman said. Heidi Gilbertson (MBA 2017),an associate brand manager at MillerCoors, discussed a new effort by the company to... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
just a numbers cruncher. That was the first time I had ever considered my Harvard MBA to be a career liability. Producing a television show well requires a surprising amount of general management expertise.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Former HBS Dean John McArthur guided the School during a critical phase of its modern development. He also touched a virtual army of friends, colleagues, and just plain folk with a warm, personal style. more Maximizing Assets Baupost Group president Seth Klarman (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
producing its oil, each of the five or six key field that are still around 90 percent of their production are in real danger of a pending production collapse. You might see the production from any one of these fields drop by as much as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration and a member of the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. "With my coauthors, HKS's Iris Bohnet and Alexandra van Geen, the working paper we produced "When Performance... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
program, which can be completed in as little as nine months, Lakhani says participants “will be able to bring data analytics from the periphery to the heart of their respective organizations.” Another new program, the Certificate in School View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Charge
Rogers: An opportunity to be in charge. After serving as the Obama administration’s social secretary for some 18 months, Desirée Rogers (MBA 1985) left that post in 2010 in the wake of a security breach in which two uninvited guests View Details
Donald V. Fites
During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
contributing to the family’s livelihood by spinning yarn, weaving cloth, sewing quilts, and producing other clothing and textile items for sale or trade. When she died, her husband’s second wife, Deliverance, took over these tasks and was... View Details
Roger Milliken
Deering, Milliken and Company was founded in 1865 and had primarily been a selling house for cloth producers in the south. When Roger Milliken inherited the business in 1947, he changed the focus of the company, buying numerous mills and... View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg... View Details
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) leadership team, then-BEI Director Jennifer Nash and BEI Faculty Chair and Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Mike Toffel, sparked the idea for the podcast. They thought it... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
while producing robust returns. Emily's role prior to HBS was a Commercialization Manager at RXBAR. Mike Kelly (MBA 2022, Section I), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Climate Tech Fund at Fifth Wall... View Details
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The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
published. An equally eager audience of financial advisors, portfolio managers and securities traders awaited the option pricing model. In the same year that Merton published his article on option pricing theory (1973), the Chicago Board... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
several of the new research tracks the project has produced and how a few of these ideas are being put into action. Transportation and Infrastructure After organizing a transportation summit in February 2014 that featured everyone from GE... View Details