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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
least four consecutive years of top financial performance or have led a business or service that changed the way people live and work. Our previous book, In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century, shows that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
General Georges Frederic Doriot, but I do know that in 2002, when I looked into the sparse literature on the history of venture capital, his name kept popping up. I found a bunch of newspaper and magazine profiles, a chapter on him in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
pretty businesslike in your judgments,” he says, noting that even a backup player generally earns an annual salary of $1 to $2 million. “The financial skills I learned at HBS have been extremely useful in that sense. You need to be able... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
Case Study Illustration by Corbis/Matthias Kulka Sometimes, a company's history contains more drama than a Russian novel. A recent case, "LEGO," explores how the toy maker grew to global dominance from humble beginnings, the mistakes that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Twin brothers Kenny and Sean Salas (both MBA 2015) grew up with firsthand... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
number of developments during the School's history that have helped create and stimulate a climate favorable to entrepreneurship at Soldiers Field. The Business School's first Dean, Edwin F. Gay, while a student of economic View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
Kitty Hawk. They were just two hard-working brothers, very unassuming, who helped change the world.” Harvard had been on Chad Losee’s (MBA 2013) radar since a middle school history trip that included a stop in Harvard Yard, but a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
and how far their daughter would set her sights. “When I was accepted at Harvard College, my parents’ immediate reaction was, ‘Great. Now how are we going to pay for this?’” remembers Harris. “I told them, ‘I don’t know, but we’re going to find a way.’” Through View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
way to success, the first step, the authors say, is to take action now and learn on the way. They show how to determine the best strategy and tactics when the future is uncertain, how to minimize financial risk in every decision, and why... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
associate dean for Faculty Development and Research and faculty director of the Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Project. “The national unemployment rate early in the pandemic had jumped to over 13 percent; the standard prediction... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
was an absolutely key pillar in the Business School, both in the mission sense — of getting our thoughts out and having an impact in the world — and in a financial sense,” says the School’s current Dean, Jay Light. “He also understood the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
Philippe de Montebello, a 37-year veteran of the Met. "We have a strong, diverse, unpredictable revenue base, and the financial demands of running an institution this size are considerable," says Winshel. "We have a not-for-profit revenue... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
symposium will be collected and published at a later date. The following is a list of the papers' authors: Business History Professor Thomas K. McCraw and Assistant Professor Nancy F. Koehn Competition and Strategy Professors Adam M.... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses, created hundreds of jobs, and... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
financial institution, but our clients were the heads of equity, the heads of sell-side research, sales and trading in investment banks. So, you have this career, which I really enjoyed. There were a couple of transitional points with the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s book excerpt on “Chimerica”!... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
for the Detroit effort, which was an honor for me.” Enabling Career Exploration Each year, the HBS Leadership Fellows Program gives a select group of graduating MBAs the financial flexibility to explore careers in high-impact nonprofit or... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
think about the ballets we’re presenting as part of a portfolio,” says Hodges, who joined the organization in 2014. “Taking that approach makes it possible to balance our mission of developing new works while meeting financial... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna