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- 01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
wing and learn anything about underlying demand for the plane. Instead, you have to sink the full $12 billion into the project before learning if there is, or is not, sufficient demand.” Given the level of uncertainty involved with these projects, they require View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
supply could be made up in other parts of the world? I would argue very strongly that once Saudi Arabia’s oil goes into decline the world’s oil supply has very likely peaked. The reality is that in the last five View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Conversation with Dean Nohria
goals, one of your priorities is to ensure—through FIELD and other initiatives—that the School, though Boston-based, is a truly international institution. What are some of the ways that "global" manifests itself at HBS? A VIBRANT CAMPUS: The success of the FIELD... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
Oreck Illustration by Zachary Pullen When Tom Oreck (OPM 26, 1998) took over the family vacuum cleaner business seven years ago, his biggest challenge was to transform the firm from an entrepreneurial “one-man band” founded by his father,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created for itself.” Named chairman... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
illuminating graphics to guide readers in conceiving, designing, building, testing, and scaling up the ideal business for them. The Career Playbook: Essential Advice for Today’s Aspiring Young Professional by James M. Citrin (MBA 1986)... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
up to the ideals instilled in him by his forebears. Several months after their father died of cancer eight years ago, the Tisch brothers split his office into two, each taking half. “Sometimes when I’m... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A $75 billion cyberdefense... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in Pittsburgh in December 1913. The gleaming Gulf station finally made... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
very hard...inside! As you may recall from my letter in the October issue of the Bulletin, this year the Board is tackling three important areas of concern to alumni: global alumni issues, information technology, and alumni career... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
McArthur Hall Dedication
Clark noted, initiated major changes in faculty development, committed unprecedented resources to research and the curriculum, and positioned HBS academic programs on the leading edge of business education during the years he led the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
included not only a street-based literacy program, but the building and staffing of several child-care facilities. A year later, with three nurseries up and running, one under construction, and the project... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
Silverstein, which most of us know as a children’s book. Another is A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias. It describes a 30-year marriage, and it’s not all roses. When people date, they don’t always think about what love is going to look like 30, 40, or 50 View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
worthwhile. Sadly, the publisher is now out of business, but used copies of our book are now selling at a premium. DID YOU FIND ANSWERS? Over several years my entire spare time was spent curled up with... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
patience. Or, in a world where consumer expectations are so much higher, pushing your team to step up just a bit more versus taking your foot off the gas to allow for rest and recovery. Or doubling down on an idea you’re committed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
of the American B-17 Flying Fortresses as they passed over Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, on the morning of September 17, 1944. The sound had become familiar since the United States had entered the Second World War almost three years earlier;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
All photos by Webb Chappell From the Charles River, the newly renovated Baker Library looks very much as it has for the past seventy-some years — stately columns, enormous windows, the signature bell tower. But a closer inspection reveals... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
It isn’t news that US companies have a problem with diversity, especially in the C suite. Although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population, only 1 percent—that’s just five people—are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. That... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
with that tech background and a degree in electrical engineering, Ricotta had to get up to quantum speed when he joined Aliro. Quantum computing is a different paradigm, Ricotta explains. Whereas classical computers use bits and bytes to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career
When you became Dean, were there surprises for you nonetheless? It wasn’t a complete surprise, but one of the interesting things was to see how information dries up when you become the head of an organization. For View Details