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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
world of possibilities open up. An option is a fundamental security now - whether linked to interest rates, stock indexes, currencies, commodities, or real estate. But that's only part of it. There are other financial things that have the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
earning Klarman entry into the Alpha magazine Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. The firm has grown from 3 to 100 employees. A consummate team player, Klarman rarely uses his private office, choosing instead to sit at the trading desk where he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Faculty Books
a small one. See hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7271.html. The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World by Joseph L. Badaracco (Harvard Business Review Press) Leading responsibly is crucial in today's uncertain world. Badaracco,... View Details
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
Clubs News Clubs News It’s been a decade since the HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS) launched its signature Mentorship Program, aimed at helping local university and trade school students to prepare for life after graduation, both personally... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
how it all happened. I have been a traveler and a student of a world that has become more complex and more diverse." Jack of Many Trades Since graduating from Harvard College in 1963, Chuck Mercer has worked... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Perkowski Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home On Wall Street, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) channeled capital to growing companies. In China,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
consumers at the bottom of the pyramid. “We used to think we could figure things out in the developed world and dumb it down for emerging markets,” she says. “In fact, it needs to happen the other way around — the bottom of the pyramid... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
that organizes coffee farmers, links them directly to coffee importers, and guarantees a premium over the prevailing price being paid on the international market. Starbucks has been quick to respond in times of crisis, too. When terrorists attacked the View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
training, and dramatically lower compensation. (Mulroney provides his services pro bono.) "The nonprofit world can be difficult for executives who are accustomed to efficiency and large-company, big-budget solutions to problems," Mulroney... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
two or three days a week on the road, out in the countryside, having direct contact with citizens. I attend local council meetings, talk with entrepreneurs, visit trade unions — I've intervened to stop about eighteen strikes; that's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(Raymond Baker; World Trade Organization) “ several hundred billion dollars annually..” (Tax Justice Network; citing GFI) “..largest tax dispute ” (IRS press release Sept. 11, 2006) “..a strong message of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
blocky, mid-20th-century towers that represent the toughest cases. In the decades after World War II, as air-conditioning and fluorescent lighting became standard, floor plates grew to proportions that would accommodate View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
local artisans and the timber trade without degrading the land. Are there similarities between your work in Costa Rica and the Massachusetts Audubon project you tackled after returning to Boston? The plan in Boston was a high-profile,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
where he worked on rebuilding subway tunnels at the World Trade Center disaster site. Intent on adding business management skills to his tech-nical tool kit, he applied to HBS. To his dismay, midway through... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)
Above: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003) at GM World in Detroit’s Renaissance Center (photo by Brian Kelly) Who you are is the sum total of your experiences. Growing up in Chennai, India, the importance of education and working incredibly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
electric monopoly. Two classmates joined Maddy at Adesemi — Côme Laguë (MBA 1993), who served as CFO and today is CEO of Zetta Research, and Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993), an early investor who was killed on September 11, 2001, as a passenger on the first plane from... View Details