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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Sunny Side
contrarian bet is paying off. Berardi is traveling less, as more and more founders and investors set up shop in his new hometown: “Miami was built on waves of immigration. It’s a place that makes you feel like you matter to its future and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 May 2017
- News
Two On-Track Investments
Photo via the Baltimore Sun Photo via the Baltimore Sun There are no sure bets in Thoroughbred racing—but for many, the thrill of watching a horse thundering down the track far outweighs the risk of loss, whether the stake is a $2 View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
Smarter Risks in Business by Eileen C. Shapiro and Howard H. Stevenson (Portfolio/Penguin Putnam) Professor Stevenson and Shapiro (MBA ’81) show how to increase the odds on the business and life bets you choose to take, using a quick... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
betting on the future and recognizing a shift in the industry. “We’re looking ahead and thinking very deeply about where the industry is going as a result of innovation, as opposed to looking in the past,” he says. One sector where the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
ALL IN: The bigger the bet Hollywood makes, the better. Photo courtesy of Anita Elberse Offstage at a Lady Gaga concert seems an unlikely place for academic fieldwork. But that's exactly the kind of environment that allows Anita Elberse... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Just Extraordinary
foster care and orphanages to help raise international awareness about orphan issues. Turner, herself adopted out of Washington’s foster care system, worked at Procter & Gamble and BET Networks before becoming a successful entrepreneur.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Steven C. Watson
Two years ago, if you bet me five bucks that I was going to be a school-teacher, I would have taken that bet in a heartbeat.” When his students question the relevance of precalculus to their future lives,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
made a bigger bet on me than my wife, Dalas, who took a serious interest in me when I was just a 22-year-old PR flack in New York," he says. The two were married in September 1995 and are expecting a baby before graduation. "My work takes... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
Bank. The fund’s early performance, however, had not been impressive. It was the height of the dot-com frenzy, and Cooper was betting against the dot-coms. Although he was hedged by long positions in cheap, cash-flow-producing natural... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data into their broadcasts. And as interactive sports media evolves... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
bet on an HBS graduate who has no direct experience in the field, but who has a strong business background and a deep interest in how talent and organizational decisions drive performance. The game changers in this field will have strong... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
the Washington Post and sports mogul John Henry's purchase of the Boston Globe, there has been much speculation lately about the trend of well-heeled investors making bets on the future of print media. Yet Esty says the power of this case... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
of three investment professionals, offering Sheyner the same thing that first attracted him to private equity: ownership. "It's an opportunity to place a really big bet on myself, which is what I want to do." View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Seeing Things Others Don’t
genius is arguably the best fund manager of our time.” A contrarian who likes to uncover and then make big bets on emerging trends invisible to everyone else, Heebner said he feels most confident “when everyone else thinks I’m nuts.” His... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
venerable Cambridge institution is still alive and well, thanks, in large part, to one of their classmates. “We've been in business since 1882,” says Jerry Murphy, president of the Harvard Cooperative Society. “It's a safe bet that we're... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
are made on the Internet, it's difficult to bet the whole organization on one approach," he explains. "We've developed a world-class Web site that's supported by a state-of-the-art fulfillment center. But we also want to bring new... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sunshine State
implications of his audacious $800 million bet against subprime mortgages, Jeff Greene was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover vending machines.” Indeed, Greene never forgot when he was 14 and living in... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
chaos of the world.” (PD-1923) (PD-1923) Elizabeth Bennet: The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is a master at risk management in questions of 19th-century matrimony, Desai says. Her decision at the end of the novel to marry the man she desires shows that she “understood... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
startup evolve into Banco Pactual, which today is a full-service investment bank with a net worth of $700 million. Jakurski has found contrarian skepticism useful for analyzing emerging-market turbulence. "The government will enact a policy and you know from experience... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Hopping to It
period when sales are down sharply.” He’s also undergone a personal makeover, hitting the gym to shed fifty pounds, shaving his beard, and becoming more homebody than homeboy, enjoying domestic life with his wife and one–year–old daughter. “If you’re having a party,”... View Details