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- 06 Jul 2015
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Lights! Camera... Market!
to move away, while the other rejects farm life to pursue a bigger payday smuggling drugs over the Canadian border. It’s a tough but touching story with a very un-Hollywood ending. Yet, for Jared Simon (MBA 2008), the making—and marketing—of the film View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
reasons. As it turns out, those legal and regulatory constructs are changing dramatically in the current environment. So how did the course go? For a first offering, we felt the course went pretty well. We had students from both schools... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
before, but its “product mix,” unlike IBM’s, changed in a single morning. Turning to teaching, is there a case of yours that’s a personal favorite? One of my favorites is the three-part Ryanair series. In Part A, it’s 1986, and Ryanair is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Redefining Health Care
School, the article evoked a flood of encouraging letters and e-mails. “The response wasn’t ‘you’re crazy,’ or ‘competition has no place in health care,’” recalls Porter. “We felt obligated to turn the diagnosis in the article into... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
dollars to spend in a given year, you're better off making 100 movies that each cost $10 million, or 20 that each cost $50 million. But it turns out that it's much safer to make a handful of really, really big bets. On average, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
which were turning to industrial planning, Keynesian deficits, and high inflation to stimulate their economies, Hong Kong’s civil servants rejected the idea that governments should play a role in industrial planning, the idea of spending... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
got older, he turned that hunt inward, started using a simple spreadsheet to manually track his behavior, keeping tabs on the amount of time spent exercising, sleeping, commuting, gradually expanding into include everything from his car's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
China, whether over trade, Taiwan, Tibet, or some other as yet subliminal issue. The scenario may seem implausible. Yet it is easy to see how future historians could retrospectively construct plausible chains of causation to explain such a View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
turned it into a consumer powerhouse and created a variety of equally successful spin-offs, including InStyle and People en Español. People is now a major contributor to the company's $5.8 billion in revenues. Magazine publishing has... View Details
- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Terry Finley turns race horses into investment opportunities. As president and CEO of West Point Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs, New York, Finley buys promising colts... View Details
Keywords: horse racing
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
to Section B from your humble scribe, for once bursting with genuine tidings and not the thin gruel of scrapings from LinkedIn and outright ChatGPT-esque ‘hallucinations.’ ” —Andrew Matheson (MBA 1993/B) Wheel Time “Since moving to Boston four years ago, I View Details
- 25 Oct 2018
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Bringing the Background into Focus
unable to find a museum job and was turned down for multiple postdoctoral fellowships. Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, was sent a copy of her dissertation and described being “flabbergasted” that she had not found work.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Deals For Sale
pharmaceuticals. "There are lots of industries with imbalances between supply and demand, and FairMarket can help them turn that liability into a financial asset," he says. View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
to the workplace. As it turned out, many other HBS alumnae who left careers to raise children felt the same way. Now Rabin and another HBS graduate who relaunched her career, Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA ’85), have coauthored a guidebook for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
recounts his days at HBS, admitting, “I came to Harvard with an insouciant assumption that I would be first in the class. As it turned out, I had to ride at full gallop just to stay the course.” Not long after HBS, Valenti and a partner... View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
performers are added), so most concerts involve small, chamber-music groups or soloists with keyboard accompaniment. (A piano, harpsichord, and chamber organ are part of the chapel’s equipment.) But operas — Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and The View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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One-on-One with Carter Roberts
this work,” says Roberts, “and nine out of ten will describe turning over logs and discovering things when they were little.” Four decades later, he’s still discovering nature, but on a global scale. Since his appointment in February 2005... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
Angeles River. “It’s been polluted and paved, but it’s why the Gabrielino Indians and Mexican Pobladores—who founded Los Angeles—chose the location they did. Now, in a fascinating turn of events, we are restoring the waterfront with parks... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna