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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
government guarantees, and (3) privatization backstopped in times of financial crisis by federal government guarantees only for new loans. The third option reflects a middle-ground position advocated by HBS professor David Scharfstein and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
start to get in trouble, I hand them back to their parents. I am quite realistic, I think, but I’m also optimistic in the sense that the world is full of problems. But I think we’re in a much better position now, despite all the... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
of directors in terms of what should be most important in my life and career. The positive impact they are having across a variety of industries and in their own communities helps guide my personal and professional ambitions.” Repairing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
concluded that we needed a relatively simple set of ideas to organize the course. First, we adopted a functional perspective, a concept that University Professor Bob Merton and a number of us have been working on for the last fifteen years. The functional perspective... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Q&A: Suzy Wetlaufer
who applied to the School on a lark, accepted a position at Bain & Company after graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar. She and a Bain partner later wrote an article about leadership styles and submitted it to the Harvard Business... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
Utkal University, receiving his degree in 1978. During that time, he also took courses in banking and finance, which enabled him to be promoted to a managerial position. With little room for career growth at the bank where he worked, Parija began looking outside India... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
started. Any hospital, or physician practice, or health plan, or employer can take positive steps in the direction of value-based competition and be better off, even if nothing else changes. Reforming the U.S. system does not require a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Hustead, whose days in the oil fields have prepared him well for the long hours and attention to detail his current position requires. “This is a capital-intensive, labor-intensive way to make money,” he remarks. “It’s a lifestyle, like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
also been collecting quantitative data from companies to determine the effects of diversity and a more inclusive culture on performance. There are many question marks. For example, under what conditions would you expect diversity to have a View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
lacrosse season as a coach at Brookline High School, traveling, then back to the working world with a position in private equity. That’s a nice benefit. What else was valuable about the learning team experience? Courtney Hughes: The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
China’s biggest trading partner, accounting for around a fifth of Chinese exports. On the other hand, the importance of net exports to Chinese growth has declined considerably in recent years. Moreover, Chinese reserve accumulation has put Beijing in the powerful View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
with a successful entrepreneurial track record and a Boston address. “I am a tech CEO.” With so few women in leadership roles in the information technology sector and a dramatic gender imbalance throughout the field, Kraus’s title is more than a description of her... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
family tried to help Billy, succeeding in getting him off the streets only near the end of his life. “I did some soul searching,” after the recruiter’s call, Hudson says. She realized that a position at Chapman Partnership would be “an... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
cousins and my nieces and nephews the endless love and attention I always enjoyed. Being unprepared for that shift is an understatement, so I ask myself: What would my grandmother have done? At some point, she was thrust into the same View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
compartment of a train to protect them from the widespread rape of young girls and women. So even in my own family, there was silence. In addition to some harrowing, heartbreaking stories, the museum highlights more positive stories of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
implicit in the book’s title, the authors interviewed more than forty CEOs from both industry and the nonprofit sector, studied what successful managers do right, and drew on their own years of experience at Bain. They came up with four principles: costs and prices... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
"green," as though there were a categorical answer. "Of course, the answer is, 'It depends.' The appropriate environmental policies for a firm depend on the firm's circumstances: the basic economics of its industry, its position within... View Details
- 10 Oct 2014
- News
Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
we need to think not only of the challenges and opportunities facing Harvard Business School, but also the great opportunities we have to help create positive change throughout the world. “And the Campaign is about more than raising... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
others in a positive way. Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature by Mark R. Tercek (MBA 1984) and Jonathan S. Adams (Basic Books) Nature Conservancy CEO Tercek and his coauthor argue that nature is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo. Carroll and her husband, David,... View Details