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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
source of America’s economic decline and fading international power and provide an action plan for restoring “true” democracy, in which politicians provide only the services people vote for within the civil and property View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
held the record for the largest buyout, Equity Office Properties at $38.9 billion, which was eclipsed by the recent $45 billion TXU deal. How big can deals go? I don’t know. That’s a game that people always like talking about. I don’t... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
susceptible to everything from intellectual property theft to uneven product quality. But the novel coronavirus created chasms. “One thing that COVID-19 revealed is the extent to which business systems were... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
competitors. An exploration and production company founded in 1967, CMS employs 180 workers in the United States, South America, and Africa. "Some of these mergers facilitate the purchase of properties that are no longer strategic to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Keith Clinkscales (MBA 1990)
beauty of working in California is that I still wake up on East Coast time. I can work three or four hours before the LA day kicks in.” Happy place: Bryant Park in Manhattan. “You can take a genuine, green-grass moment that’s very accessible, View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships, however, science with commercial applications began thriving outside corporate R&D silos. And the availability of venture capital for technology start–ups made it harder to keep scientists with hot new ideas in–house. The result is an active market for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
(bottom) and today in retirement. Says Houghton, “Perhaps the spirit of leadership is the spirit that is not so sure it is right all the time.” Photos Courtesy Corning Inc. Archives (bottom); Justin Ide (top) The case “Corning 1983–96:... View Details
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
right when he told the story. Bulletin: Will your father be going to Stockholm with you when you accept the prize? Merton: Yes, he'll be with me in December. Bulletin: You mentioned how some of the concepts your father introduced have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
miss the extreme lows, but I miss the adrenaline of the extreme highs. In choosing a business plan to fund, I look for a unique perspective on an enormous market opportunity. By that I mean a great team with an advantage — a unique angle, set of relationships, or View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
eating that,” he says with a smile. But he’ll also miss the intellectual exchange of the HBS classroom. “When you have a class dynamic going, you can hear six views on a subject and come to understand different facets of it,” he remarks.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
legal nonprofit. I quickly learned, however, that my accomplishments did not shield me from feeling like an outsider during my RC year. HBS Dean Nitin Nohria was right when he recently said that even in a community that can pride itself... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents and healing View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
makes a purchasing decision.” Levitt’s influence reached well beyond the classroom. “Ted Levitt was the most influential and imaginative professor in marketing history,” HBS professor and senior associate dean John Quelch stated on the occasion of his death. “He was an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
encouragement. Entrepreneurship is like an intellectual onion, one of his Finance advisors told him. You peel it and peel it, it makes you cry, and there’s nothing in the middle. There were some exceptions to this institutional... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap
decadal timeline, which would put SEEQC and its chip-based systems right at the bleeding edge of the next computer revolution. Plenty of challenges lie ahead. Right now, for instance, qubits are so delicate... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
surprise “Keep America Rolling” zero-percent financing campaign on GM vehicles to keep GM's, and its suppliers', production lines rolling in the face of an unprecedented national crisis. Rick's quick and decisive action against conventional wisdom did View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to survive in new economy. The Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution. Joel Bines provides examples of companies that have failed to address the metail paradigm, along... View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation
agency in North Minneapolis that operates a large facility on Plymouth Avenue. BR: The funeral home building was right behind North Point. And so North Point wanted to expand. And so I began to work with Michael Noonan and I said, you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
as president of a steel company before turning to the stage. “[Education] was not so much about, you know, doing well to get a good job. I guess that’s in everybody’s mind, but I always saw it as an incredible intellectual challenge.”... View Details
- 14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle
early to commercialize it," says Anquetil. "The company was not a great success." He knew he was missing something: formal business training. "I had picked up some knowledge along the way, but I wanted the right knowledge," he says. "HBS... View Details