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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
prosper. We know that many white banks, for example, the Bank of Italy, they were the beneficiary of the federal government after the Second World War saying that, "We want to create a middle class in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the economy or the taxpayer.” Finding a Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a middle ground between the harm and moral hazard extremes foreseen by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class by Edward Conard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Varma staked their claim to financial services advice. India has a rapidly growing middle class that is “clueless about what to do with their money because their parents’ generation never really had family... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
into middle school—start to get earlier exposure and personalized advising on how they could connect their interests to potential career pathways and educational programs that would help them get there. It would mean that they would have... View Details
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
everybody has their own ways to cope, but by time I pull into my driveway I'm happy and ready to go. What we've done differently in this office—because we've had some pretty historic losings. I'm gonna say office. I'm sitting in Camden, New Jersey in our brand new,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
members-only shopping site Gilt Groupe with classmate Alexandra Wilkis Wilson (MBA 2004). Now Girls Who Code students work as summer interns at the Gilt Groupe. The nonprofit has middle school and high school clubs in more than 20 states.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
firms with only domestic growth opportunities? Growth in the Chinese middle class and on-the-ground entrepreneurship indicate that the most attractive opportunities will be companies that win by focusing on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
says about him and our present-day consumer society, to a story about the rise of the Negro middle class in the South in the 1960s, to a fascinating obituary of Jay Gould, the nineteenth-century speculator,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
success. So You Want to Be a CEO: The Path from Middle Management to the Top Job by Thomas F. Faught Jr. (MBA 1953) (Fortis Publishing) Based on over 40 years of global management experience, including more than a decade as a CEO, Faugh... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
Athens and is featured in boutiques across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States. More importantly, Mareva says, HBS is where she and Kyriakos met in 1994, at a reception for Greek students at the now-bygone... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
Dream: Tales from the Middle of the Pack By James Riehl, Jr. (MBA 1978) Palmetto Publishing During the running boom of the 1970s and early 1980s, the names of the swiftest runners were on everyone’s lips. Frank Shorter. Bill Rodgers.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
important, too: as Houghton once wrote (paraphrasing Justice Learned Hand), “Perhaps the spirit of leadership is the spirit that is not so sure it is right all the time.” —GE Taran Swan Leading from the Middle Swan in 1998 at Nickelodeon... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
They sent me to a French school in San Francisco. It was a bilingual school, but all the classes were taught in French. All the professors were French. And then I was in America. So, three languages right from the get go. It was my... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Howard (MBA 1971) Boiling Point Editions This story depicts a youth’s journey set in the turbulent Middle East and spiked with tragedy, wrong turns, unforced errors, luck, espionage, and family love. Life can either grind you down or... View Details