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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
He is a former visiting research associate and trustee of the Marketing Science Institute and was a Ford Foundation Visiting Professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels. At HBS, Silk served as... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
globally,” he says. “The infrastructure to source and sell was so massive that volume continued to grow despite rapidly deteriorating credit quality.” Seeing the absurdity of it, Paulson bet against the market at the peak of the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for investors. He is a founding partner of Emerging View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
manufacturing hives and offering village-level demonstrations and training. A social enterprise that has won multiple international awards, Honey Care also provides a guaranteed market at fair trade prices for the honey produced by... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
morning on October 12, 2020, a home security system captured a moment that would go viral on social media. [knocking] Bob Wilson: Paul? JH: Bob Wilson and his wife Mary had walked across the street to his colleague Paul Milgrom’s house to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Syrian Electronic Army on April 23, 2013, the group tweeted out “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured” to the account’s almost 2 million followers. The resulting stock turmoil is estimated to have... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Whit Sears (MBA 1959)
wat. Although built around a temple and housing a contingent of monks, each wat also serves as a social and community center and frequently hosts market days and carnivals. It’s hard to convey the pervasive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the marketplace understood that both mortgage behemoths enjoyed an implicit federal guarantee against failure, contend Hensarling and Sununu. Spurred on by lawmakers eager to expand homeownership, Fannie and Freddie so distorted the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the Irish-born explorer Ernest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Future has three major premises: The 1970s oil shocks were not anomalies but part of a major transition for energy users and producers; the “externalities” of energy use (its environmental, social, and geopolitical costs) had to be factored in to energy policy; and a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
company Mobley to offer an alternative: an affordable way to furnish a home with stylish, quality pieces with a lease of 3 to 12 months, without the burden of ownership. Mobley’s entrée to the $230 billion market for furniture and home... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
comprehension skills. The data the organization collects—e.g., what’s interesting to young readers and how they access such books—is then shared with its partner organizations and publishers, to tap into and strengthen new global markets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the “‘collision of a collapsing View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
enterprises delivering high-impact goods and services to the emerging middle class and low-income populations, which he cofounded in 2007. At HBS, his work examines businesses serving low-income markets around the world, which means he is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
HBS has long been a global leader in shaping the practice of management education and research. HBS faculty have helped establish some of the world’s leading business schools. More recently, the School’s global research centers have ensured HBS faculty direct access to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
author detailing his current four-year journey through all 54 African countries at Africa54.com "Consumers will acquire a greater appreciation of targeted, personal marketing. A growing number of advertisers will embrace online marketing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
It’s a sunny May afternoon in LA. Søren Bjerg, a slender and pale 21-year-old with chunky glasses and a black hoodie, is sitting in the den of the house he shares with a half dozen other guys. It’s decorated the way you might expect it to... View Details