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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Gompers, Merton Honored
The 2002 Geewax, Terker & Company Prize in Investment Research, offered by the Rodney L. White Center at The Wharton School, has gone to Professor Paul A. Gompers and coauthors Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) is the captain of his own fate. A freak accident at age 21 left him a quadriplegic. That transformative moment led him, ultimately, to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps disabled children and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
creates an opportunity to weave together disparate threads of scholarship. A fascinating outcome of this broad intellectual overview, Driven provides a new way to look at the unseen forces that guide the choices we make every day in our personal and professional lives.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
The Venture Capital Cycle by Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner (MIT Press) U.S. venture capital firms have grown dramatically over the last two decades, nurturing a host of start-ups -- including Apple... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
agreement for the rights to Tina Turner’s catalog, for example—white artists like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Aerosmith have fetched the highest valuations. “We want to invest differently, not colored by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
Ferguson: Managing Manchester United." The flip side of Ferguson's acclaim, of course, is that he and his team have a large target on their backs. When the case opens on the 2012–2013 season, the club is facing a well-funded, vigorous challenge View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
story and the story of our culture and offer a road map for the future. Practicing Journalism: The Power and Purpose of the Fourth Estate by Paul Steinle (MBA 1976) and Sara Brown (Marion Street Press) The... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
Traditionally, most student honors at HBS have been based solely on academic accomplishments. This year, for the first time, several students were formally honored for outstanding leadership and exceptional service to the HBS community. Nominated View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
reality shoot on behalf of Safe Water Network (SWN), a nonprofit cofounded by Paul Newman and John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947). More than two billion people still do not have access to safe water despite lots of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
In recent months, the HBS community has mourned the loss of several prominent and long-serving faculty members whose intellect, character, and humanity shaped generations of students. Clockwise from top left: Lawrence, Rosenbloom, Williams, and Zaleznik More Obituaries... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
Malhotra. Pictured at lower right are this year’s Leadership Fellows. Photographs by Russ Campbell Every new day is a good day for Kathy Giusti (MBA ’85) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist took her hand, looked her in the eye,... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
the new levy would raise about $1.4 billion for the cash-strapped state — $841 million from Harvard alone. “When is a nonprofit not a nonprofit because of the wealth they are acquiring?” Representative Paul Kujawski, the chief sponsor of... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
Enterprises were over, and was very sorry about that," he recalls. "But that was superseded by my elation that East German people would be freed from the horrible yoke and terror of the Soviet system." For its part, as the world's leading... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) welcomed Her Excellency Mariam Bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates, and Paul Polman,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
inattention to customer feedback — led to stagnating sales and declining profits. "When I walked into this company in 1994," says Claiborne's straight-talking chairman, president, and CEO Paul Charron, "it was a $2-billion corporation... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
(MBA '79) is a genuine guitar hero. Because of his managerial chops, a legendary American guitar company, once almost silenced by insolvency, has lived to play on. Founded in 1894, the Gibson Guitar Corp. had lately been singing nothing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons