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- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
announced earlier this month intention to join megapartners Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase on some still mysterious project in the fastest-growing market of them all, health care. These stories from our archive suggest the great impact... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
announcing the opening of an office within the context of a larger industry event will continue in March at the Satellite 2016 conference outside Washington, D.C., and at subsequent forums in Paris and Singapore. “This is the most... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
enthusiasm, his opinion changed when he began interviewing the entrepreneurs. At that point, he said, "I was sure there were some promising opportunities in this group." Before the forum was over, presenter Jill Card of IBEX Process Technology had View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
New Fellowship Program Encourages Young MBAs to Work for Nonprofits
Doing good or doing well. Usually, new HBS graduates have to pick one or the other. But now, both possibilities — bundled together and available after graduation — are a viable option for MBAs seeking jobs in the nonprofit and public sectors. Last February, HBS... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
have been increasing their footprint of small urban stores. In February, Walmart announced plans to add 270 to 300 small stores during the fiscal year, adding to the existing stable of 346 Neighborhood Markets and 20 WalMart Express... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
boards. Women want to advance their careers. They want to discuss their leadership experiences. How can we help them? Women want a safe place to talk about these issues, share with each other and ultimately to be the best they can be.” Since View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
discussion of other performance criteria, but the shareholder value standard remained dominant. Nevertheless, these companies managed to perform well against competitors. Now the Business Roundtable has announced a set of criteria that... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
So far, space tourists have paid tens of millions of dollars each for such trips (Brightman is reportedly spending a record $52 million) but several companies have announced that cheaper trips are in the offing. Virts responded like a... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
accompanies the announcement of their largesse. There is little or no incentive to stay involved or to take responsibility for seeing that the contribution is used to reach a goal. However well meaning, many businesses treat the social... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
felt like a scapegoat, Thain took the high road. “I still think the acquisition will be a good deal for Bank of America. It’s unfortunate how it was all handled.” On the day Thain spoke at HBS, Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis unexpectedly View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
patients, too long. Announced earlier this year, a $50 million gift to Harvard University by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989), addresses that challenge head-on. Building on the University's 2007... View Details
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Introduction Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1997. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In October 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping
devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
In a mid-December letter to all MBA students, Dean Jay Light announced that the School was dropping its seven-year-old policy that prohibited students from revealing their grades to potential employers. The change takes effect with the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the earnings View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
Morgan announcing that it’s going to release the first bank-backed cryptocurrency, it’s a good sign that a lot of this is getting sorted out. So the market is mature? The market is maturing—not mature. But awareness has increased... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
ensure the strength of engineering and applied sciences at Harvard for the benefit of generations to come,” said Harvard President Drew Faust, when she announced the gift. SEAS Dean Frank Doyle SEAS Dean Frank Doyle “SEAS is the next... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
suggest that no one should hold their breath waiting for a hands-off approach to work. But now a recent announcement by Walmart's management to raise minimum and average wages paid by the company has changed the tenor of the conversation... View Details