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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
lot of sound and fury that, it turns out, really doesn’t signify much at all. That’s because David Miller (MBA ’03), the Treasury Department’s former chief investment officer for TARP, helped preside over “a... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
business. Historically, advertising agencies in the United States and Europe did not simultaneously serve accounts or clients that were competitors—a practice that also limited an agency's growth. The holding View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
make up the bulk of typical office users—are about $65,000 per year, per US Bureau of Labor Statistics. After including other costs paid by the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
Hiring more minority loan officers could help people of color secure significantly more home loans and address one of the biggest factors driving the racial wealth gap, new... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
exceptions, working between our New York headquarters and our offices in Athens. Finding your career passion is a trial and error process. People say “follow your passion” but this can be vague. The actual process View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
clarity of vision, time lines, and metrics, to see when you’re on target and when you need to recalibrate. If companies approach this topic with the same strategic resolve they use with any View Details
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?
predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
market. Efficient companies should be the ones that maintain their capacity, and the inefficient ones should shrink or be sold. The same principle is involved in new industries. Instead of subsidizing new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
everything from R&D and manufacturing to marketing (the company also owns a small plant in South Hadley, Massachusetts). That vision, which Wilcox attributes to MIT professor Joe Jacobson, was nothing less than the ability to View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
proliferation of strategies, from those aggressively demanding change at targeted companies to others that function more like conventional value investors searching for... View Details
- 10 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)
the kinds of companies I hoped to work for, so I decided to hold out for HBS. The wait proved worthwhile. At HBS, I learned how to be decisive with limited information, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
Historical Collections and faculty interaction surround the north, river-facing lobby, and the new south entrance is home to The Exchange, a gathering place offering real-time news and business information. Faculty offices line the upper... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
partisan politics and hot-button issues. Instead, such statements remind people that community matters—and that civility and constructive engagement are both possible and expected. Set rules of engagement and View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
extremely proud of the remarkable achievements his company had made over the last 12 years since starting off as an unknown manufacturer of PDAs for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2016
- Blog Post
Career Resources for International Students
post-MBA work. Whatever career path international students choose to pursue, the Career and Professional Development Office (CPD) at HBS is on hand to provide resources, guidance, and access to job opportunities. Phillip Andrews,... View Details