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- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
given my background, I could come in and make a difference." Wood's prior career included working for Gil Kemp (MBA 1976) in direct marketing for Bertelsmann and for Pearson Education publishing companies. In 2005, she decided to hang a... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
national parks. There’s nothing like it. We explore nature, sleep in cramped quarters, make a mess, and have an amazing time.” “The work we do at JPMorgan Chase helps people invest for important life events, such as retirement or a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
regulation are essential to limit the harm, as well as the reputational and financial damage. But governance and regulation exist on pendulums that swing to and fro, and may overshoot in one direction and then in the other. One of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
so many resources that want to come in to the city, you’ve just got to make sure that some of that attention gets directed to the places where people tend to get forgotten.” Cummings doesn’t see the same business opportunity here in... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
so years, when much of the world faced financial uncertainty and many negative voices were directed at the business sector, I am grateful to HBS for stepping forward and providing innovation in the business school curriculum but also with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
kind of leadership. “Since the investment and R&D decisions you make today are often not easily quantifiable and not coming to fruition for fifteen to twenty years, special intuition and judgment are required,” he observes. “Compared with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and equity, he bought one of the most famous names in the business, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they pursue. Since customers cannot use... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
at an international trade and investment fair in China, he informed the gathering that between 2005 and 2010, China was the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
moving in a similar direction in collaboration with the late Fischer Black. Investors use derivatives to hedge their portfolios against the effects of sudden shifts in the market. Merton's work provides them with a formula for evaluating... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
decide to stay in Cambridge rather than transfer to the U.S. Naval Academy. Entering the Marine Corps after graduation, Mixon trained as an artillery officer and landed in Vietnam in 1965 just as American involvement in the war began to intensify. When he wasn't... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Work of Art
Jason Price (MBA 2003) in the main gallery space at NXTHVN, the art community he cofounded in New Haven’s Dixwell neighborhood Trying to capture the scope of what’s going on at NXTHVN, the nonprofit arts and community organization Jason Price (MBA 2003) cofounded with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
there’s only one direction that can go.” As novel technologies enter the market in coming years, he sees the company entering a new phase: “How do we go from a one-technology company to an organization dedicated to providing the world’s... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
most promising young leaders firsthand, lived experience in parts of the world that, frankly, too few of us have had direct exposure to, and many, many more of us need to understand firsthand. Flint: Why have Americans been slower to come... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
in Nitin’s honor is a fitting tribute to his remarkable legacy.” Finally, just as flexible funding was key to Nohria’s success leading the School, it will be essential to Datar’s ability to innovate and advance the HBS mission during his deanship. The majority of... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
adviser Karl Rove, a friend since their college days, Norquist has direct access to the White House and served as an architect of the President’s first-term tax cuts. His ultimate goal: a permanent Republican majority that will oversee... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Minds Matter provides two volunteer mentors, two summer academic experiences at colleges and abroad, SAT prep, and an extra day of “school” every Saturday. “Our students have talents and gifts,” Huebner notes, “but often need extra View Details