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01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

The 2010 Alumni Achievement Award recipients have made their mark in a wide range of fields, from banking and investing to retailing, entrepreneurship, and space exploration. United by their leadership skills, each View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

30 Jul 2024
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Reddit’s Rise

do that. The best I could do was help it and make it better. The bet was that there would be personal and professional upside that we could fix it. It was the opportunity cost of doing something else. It was... View Details

26 Nov 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

customer bases and a low cost of capital. In 2016, the landscape shifted even further when major platform players such as Amazon, PayPal, and Square entered the space. In spite View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

works. The book is available at no cost to climate outreach and education organizations. Unfettered Journey By Gary F. Bengier (MBA 1981) Chiliagon Press Unfettered Journey is the story of Joe Denkensmith,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2019
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Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot

millions if not billions of miles. And those scenarios vary from city to city. Plus, autonomous cars are very expensive today. Those costs will have to come down before it can scale. How will autonomous... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1997
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Cathy A. Nichols

keeping an eye on capital costs are among the major challenges ahead. Of her goals, Nichols observes, "My desire is to build something I'm proud of - an excellent management... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Sep 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: In the Deal

Listening to entrepreneur pitches is one of the best parts of working in venture capital, says Anna Khan (MBA 2016), a vice president in the San Francisco office of Bessemer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977

losses, improve his finance department with the help of a Wall Street private equity firm, and make it a matter of policy to pay closer attention to managing the balance sheet.... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections

an especially promising area for studying the effects of top executives' social capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech, it can take eight to ten years to developa product and cost hundreds... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 1999
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The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

increases only modestly. The traditional face of the industry has changed, with "full-service" agency-client relationships giving way to cost cutting, streamlining, and consolidation. Outright alternatives... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

13 Nov 2020
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Realizing a Dream

way.” A case in point, he offers, is the unexpected costs associated with the pandemic. “No one could have seen this coming. That’s why giving the administration flexibility is so important.” A regular reunion attendee, he describes his... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Ears to the Ground

a decade and was only active in about 30 cities. Clark saw the problem: “From a police department point of view, it was a significant and risky IT project,” he says. ShotSpotter systems cost about $250,000... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

surgeries, 40 percent of which were free of charge. The enterprise has been able to reduce the cost of surgery by up to 60 percent, working with... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

underground hacker marketplaces. Credit card numbers—from premium cards, some offered with money-back guarantees if they don’t work—go for as little as $9. That’s just one segment of a booming hacker market: Attempts to knock a particular... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "What stood out for me initially was the first-year section, where I made some of my closest friends and thrived in the give-and-take of class... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

education may be able to buy a "contract" with a financial institution that will lock in the cost of tuition at today's rates. By making payments to such a contract rather than investing in growth funds,... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

Labs. “A crisis like this illuminates the importance of innovation.” One example is Umbulizer, which offers a reliable, portable ventilator at 10 percent of the cost View Details

11 Jul 2013
News

The Good Writer

phone at his home in Los Angeles, Dick, one of eight writers on the show, has had about seven days to turn in a 60-page script. “My wife will tell you that I’m an insufferable ogre when I’m on deadline,” he says. “But you have to feed the... View Details