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01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

that he had sold several million books about a certain Travis McGee. MacDonald wrote, “I am now thinking of, in the next novel, gifting him McGee with an American Express Credit Card! It would make Poe’s bit about the pit and the pendulum... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

long distances, among other differences, he said.) Deceit and denial fostered ethical drift. Enron's ethical drift was further motivated by a desire to manage the credit rating and to manage the need for cash and earnings volatility, in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

Podcast with: Interviewer: Running Time: Alfred D. Chandler Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whom many credited with founding the discipline of business history, died at age 88 on May 9, 2007. His work is legendary, but so too was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Reinventing State Capitalism

In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

differences in interest rates across the banks. Careful probing through interviews indicated that many customers defected because they were irritated by the fact that they had been aggressively solicited for a bank-provided credit card,... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Sebastian Velasco

Harvard where he graduated cum laude in economics, a degree that not only reflected his interest in finance, but would help him "understand the root causes of corruption, inequality, and under-development." After graduation, Sebastian spent six years with... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

29 Nov 2023
News

A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway

Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and credit markets should function... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Privacy Policy & Legal Info | HBS Online

identity; to process payments, subscriptions, credits and refunds; and to collect amounts owed, as applicable. To perform research (such as academic research). To assess admissions criteria and analyze individual and aggregate progress,... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

the production line in just three days. While the unassuming Bullard, who recently stepped down from his duties as president, is reluctant to take credit for the company's progress, he is happy to brag about its working conditions. Unlike... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

own emissions based on their spending data they could be spending less or more in any given month, so people who emit less might pay as little as $10 a month. For instance, students who have lower credit card purchases or people who have... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

our emotional reactions to risk (playing the lottery even when we know better, for example), and we succumb to pressures to follow the group. As decision-makers, we are products of our environment to a greater degree than we realize. We take View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

through issues from multiple dimensions.” Reed’s time at HBS and HKS taught him skills in valuation, communication, and understanding policy implications for investments that come into play in his work regularly. In addition, he credits... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit ALUMNI INTRODUCTION BACK TO THE EXHIBIT H. Naylor Fitzhugh MBA 1933 H. Naylor Fitzhugh joined the Howard University faculty in 1934 and stayed for 31 years, developing... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

much, why not continue this as a career?" Ton credits her faculty advisor, Associate Professor Ananth Raman, with helping her to thrive in the challenging environment at HBS. "Since I came right from college to the DBA Program, I needed... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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The de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room | About

Montreal Children’s Hospital and faculty member at the Université de Montréal, was a key player in the rise of Telemedia, and is credited with setting up a unique human resources culture within the company. Armed with the lessons of their... View Details

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

recourse to make up the class and must simply move on to the next course. There is no option for credit recovery. Likewise, no school can possibly offer all 34 Advanced Placement courses that are out there, and yet there are often... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Altogether, he "spent about $350,000 on Intuit, a sum pieced together from life savings, home-equity credit, credit cards, and loans from his father." During one particularly difficult period, he said, "What kept me going... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

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