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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
middle class.” Consumers Need More Protection Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren is a bankruptcy and commercial law expert and co-author of The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Fouraker’s Deanship (1970 to 1980), in particular, McArthur held a range of increasingly important administrative positions. He also took on a highly unusual outside-world assignment as a Trustee in View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
key shipping routes, making it nearly impossible for the West and the Middle East to transport oil. With nothing less than oil futures and the global economy at stake, one man slips out of the shadows to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
sustains our mission.” “At no point in my life could I have guessed what I’d be doing next,” says John H. McArthur (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), who was Dean of the School from 1980 through 1995. In his career, McArthur also served as a trustee... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups. The book is based on the MBA course of the same name that Gilson has taught for the last eight years. It explains exactly how corporate restructuring is done, from the first signs View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn
into the new system illustrated to Schock the importance of flexibility and of valuing every team member. Her response was to deepen her involvement in the process by listening to the team and watching them... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Brill
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
was thoroughly engaging intellectually,” says Reade of her years in the investment business. “We were detectives, piecing together the information to figure out the value of basic businesses.” Ultimately,... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
investments in the city do, starting with the lowest point in Detroit’s financial history: In July 2013, the city filed for Chapter 9; it was the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in US history. “Uncertainty is a horrible constraint for... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
And the capital of innovation wasn't Silicon Valley. It was Detroit. And at the time, the top three car companies were there and hundreds of entrepreneurs were building car companies where company service is... View Details
- 09 Dec 2010
- News
Driving the Market for Big-Rig Engines
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
navigate life’s most difficult situations. The book is filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
Culture carries its guidance to the farthest corners of the organization to places you may never go and people you may never meet. There’s a story about the salvation of FedEx that Michael Basch, one View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987)
I had worked at a consulting firm where Reader’s Digest was my client, so I got to learn a lot about the business and the people prior to joining the first time. Thankfully, I was not there during either of the company’s two bankruptcies.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Scottsdale-area HBS alumni More than a dozen HBS alumni in the Scottsdale area convened at the Mountain Shadows Resort to hear about the business of ridesharing from Drena Kusari (MBA 2008), General Manager... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time,... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
inroads––regardless of the industry you work in,” Gower says. He makes a point to shadow junior staffers for an entire day in order to understand their role in the organization, making it easier for him to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
Despite New England’s long traditions of farming and fishing, only an estimated 5–10 percent of the food consumed in the region is actually produced there. That’s a fact Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is working... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Mar 2017
- News
Such Great Heights
hosted an event with Leif and Jim Whittaker. Both Jim and Leif are mountaineers. And Jim was the first American to summit Mt. Everest back in 1964. He's been a longtime member of the organization, and his son, Leif, just wrote a book... View Details