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May 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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Investment Technology Group

Investment Technology Group (ITG) CEO Robert Gasser wondered if the financial crisis had permanently affected the firm's business model. A leader in trade analytics and execution for institutional equity investors, ITG had grown since its establishment in 1987 in step... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Financial Crisis; Investment; Resignation and Termination; Crisis Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; New York (city, NY)

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09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

because it has not plenty of the right kind of brains behind it." In explaining the purpose of the firm, its founders were unusually honest, admitting up front that failure was part of their financial calculus. "While all projects may not be successful,"... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

01 Oct 2001
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Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus

shifting sense of priorities. Born in India, he went to boarding school in England and earned a degree in mechanical engineering at Manchester University. After graduating from HBS with distinction, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. in View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

debut at a prominent industry conference, coverage on the front page of the New York Times' Business section, and the raising of a large round of financing from a top-tier venture capital firm. His attempts... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

approached me with an article in the New York Times about a rock found in Oman that could absorb CO2. And that was the beginning of 44.01. Tell us about 44.01 and what inspired you to co-found it. The... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

jobs." Mills's introduction to government service came while she was still working in New York but living in Brunswick, Maine, with her three sons and husband, Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College.... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

to the challenge. Think of it as a new strategic initiative facing huge execution challenges. These require senior management to get the best information they can about barriers to execution, and it requires trust and commitment. That... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

their journeys before and during the MBA program. Sandra Tsikor (MBA 2025) Where is your hometown? I was raised in Tema, Ghana and moved to New York City when I was 8 years old. What was your pre-MBA... View Details

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Press / Media

By: Debora L. Spar

I'll have a girl, please

American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

24 Jan 2020
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Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It became a New York Times bestseller and received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published... View Details

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

life insurance practices led to an investigation in New York State that threatened to curtail growth in the industry. Charles Evans Hughes guided the four-month-long Armstrong Investigation, which made... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

is a level playing field a good thing? Take the immediate arguments surrounding U.S. trade with China, for example. Floyd Norris, writing recently in the The New York Times, suggests that steps to encourage... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

Is a 'Destructive Hero'," The New York Times, October 30, 2014, p. B6. Mike McNamee, "Credit Card Revolutionary," Stanford Business, May, 2001, p. 23. Jack Welch, Jack: Straight from the Gut... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

Marilyn Goldstein Fedak Chief Investment Officer Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. New York, New York In 1993, Marilyn Fedak was named chief investment officer, chairman of the... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

New Jersey, Porter earned all-state honors in football and baseball. He also taught himself golf well enough to eventually win a place on the 1968 NCAA All-American golf team while an undergraduate at Princeton, where he also earned... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New York Times to The Economist, and from talent management to the future of education. Synthesizing what these stories have in common, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Research in the Behavioral Sciences. Victoria Ivashina : Won the 2006 Award for the Outstanding Paper in Empirical Finance from the Southern Finance Association. Victoria Ivashina : Won the 2006 David M. Graifman Memorial Award from New... View Details

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

action from leaders in government and business alike. This course gave me a foundational understanding of how American capitalism originated and continually perpetuates the racial wealth gap we see today. As Matthew Desmond wrote for The View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

the time. “This is a sad chapter in Cherokee history,” he told the New York Times. “But this is not my Cherokee Nation. My Cherokee Nation is one that honors all parts of her past.” Keen, who traces his own... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

September 2007 (Revised November 2007)
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Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets

By: Tarun Khanna, Santiago Mingo and Jonathan West

In 2007, Bunge, an agribusiness company, had over $26 billion in worldwide sales and was considered, along with Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of three very integrated worldwide agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Operations; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; White Plains; Brazil

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