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- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
part of that evolution—as the cofounder of a professional services firm, an investor, a developer, and a corporate board member. “The challenge and the opportunity is to work to ensure all Pittsburghers benefit from this transition,” he... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
more than $500 million, Esquel makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world. Guiding the firm to such prominence has been Margie Yang, a combination of energy, style, and determination who gave up her job at First Boston View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt (1983) They were bold, even... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
president and served for one year on the School's faculty. There's a lot of talk these days about corporate responsibility. What are a company's obligations to its stakeholders? A company's stakeholders should expect that the company will... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
corporate radar. Interestingly, some venture capital firms have revisited their prior investments and confirmed that those involving disruptive rather than sustaining technologies proved far more profitable... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo Ventures This is the most... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Five Degrees of Doriot
influence extended well beyond the classroom. Here, a few of the ideas and inventions that Doriot helped bring to the masses. (Baker Library Historical Collections) Venture capitalism Before Doriot founded the world’s first VC firm,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
Washington until the issue’s visibility moves from the level of the assistant general counsel of a corporation to the level of the CEO. We hope this book will contribute to that process by making these matters more accessible to chief... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
because I loved the job,” he remembers. “But I knew if I was ever going to be more than an employee, I had to do something else.” Answering the call of opportunity, Johnson moved his wife and four young children to Palo Alto to launch a career in View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Every year, members of HBS student clubs work overtime to organize conferences that address an array of business-related themes and issues. This year’s events, which featured renowned guest speakers and thought-provoking panels, focused on topics such as technology and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
club has a membership of nearly 530 alumni, and its calendar boasts nearly seventy events a year. While the backbone of its activities has long been breakfast meetings featuring top executives — a recent guest was C. Steve McMillan (MBA '73), chairman, president, and... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) to manufacture battery systems for the Chinese market presents its own questions, Vietor notes. For one, the joint venture is considered a foreign subsidiary,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
way of mirroring what's going on among graduates. It seems unlikely that we will just walk away from the new economy, which many in the class helped create. As Dave Frost wrote in a 1998 class note, "Have you noticed how many of us are involved in View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Ruback, Baker Foundation Professor, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus Anthem Press Private Equity is an advanced corporate finance book that integrates a range of topics from a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
systems and glitches galore. But given his extensive experience helping international corporate clients solve IT and management problems, he was in a perfect position to help. "I was attracted by the challenge of turning around a huge... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the rise of modern management consulting from the 1960s to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
much effort, with excellent results, into assembling the CRC steering committee. The thirty members of the committee, all but three of whom are HBS alumni, are a high-powered group comprising leaders from the venture capital and academic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
to macro shocks in the global economy, and there were few places to turn to for financial support. “There’s not much venture capital now, and for sure there wasn’t much venture capital back then,” he adds.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell