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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. That win-win approach involves “looking at your biggest buckets of View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Message to Our Readers
available to graduates at a cost of ten cents each; and, of course, class notes—then called ”personal items“—for the classes MBA ’14 through MBA ’24. Plans are under way for a... View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
indeed, the entire travel-nursing sector—entered a growth phase as newly insured people sought health care and the demand for nurses surged. During this time, many of Nightingale’s competitors sold to private View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
renewables, in particular solar and wind, means that our electricity system is going to be Capex-driven, and the marginal cost of power will essentially be zero much of the... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers
list includes hundreds of the Fortune 1,000 (including GE, Microsoft, and Staples) as well as thousands of Main Street businesses. In addition to coleading HourlyNerd, Biederman volunteers as a fundraiser... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
of these experiences has cost ramifications,” she explains. “My fellowships have taken some of the pressure off. Otherwise, my choices would have been driven more by debt than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
to Hellman & Friedman, LLC, the well-respected private equity investment firm he cofounded (with Tully Friedman) in 1984. Hellman is one of the Bay Area’s most successful investment bankers, generous... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
equity firm GP Investimentos, which Sicupira led for eight years. After a decade of investing and building assets in the telecom, retail, consumer goods, and railroad industries, the trio sold the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student Christina Adams (HBS 2013)... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind
John Hagel III (MBA '77) and Marc Singer are the winners of the 1999 McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review. "Unbundling the Corporation," which appeared in the March/April 1999 HBR, argues that most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Environmental Impact
Susan Rasinski McCaw (MBA 1988) and Craig McCaw As Susan Rasinski McCaw (MBA 1988) has discovered, HBS is a place not only where students and faculty members can pursue their passions, but also where alumni can leverage their philanthropic goals while supporting the... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
me that we could combine business and nonprofit and make one plus one equal more than two,” he says. “Seventy percent of what I was doing in my private equity and business life was extremely relevant; but in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
businesses are switching their benefit packages to establish a selection of coverage and benefits. The model of every person contributing to the cost View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA 1991). "Dani, I need your help,"... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
two years ahead of Executive Director Lim's business plan projections and is proof that pleasure mixed with business can indeed lead to personal harmony. A second-generation Korean-American, Lim grew up in a musical family in upstate New... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
creating resources, adapting to the unexpected, and managing creativity. Important empirical and clinical work in venture capital and private equity has shed new light on the structure, governance, and impact View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
fund sector, today is undergoing substantial transformation, thanks to the Internet's growing reach. Unlike other areas of Internet commerce, such as online bookstores, where the cost View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons