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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
may end up feeling that executives from the other company have taken over. All of these human forces can destroy the potential economic value of the merger." Beer suggests that cross-company task forces be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
vital to solving current economic troubles and explain what minority firms must do to take their place in major value chains. They then examine what governments, corporations, and support organizations ought... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
right to outfit and sponsor individual teams? Sophisticated sports marketing outfits, often subsidiaries of the top marketing services firms, conduct detailed assessments to help companies like Nike and Samsung determine what value to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
An estimated ten times more money will pour into philanthropy during the first half of this century than during the entire century before. A high-profile case in point is the Giving Pledge, a campaign headed by Bill Gates and Warren... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
remote parts of the continent. The organization expects to feed 17 million meals to the country’s poorest families this year, an astounding achievement reflective of why the Carsons earned the 2015 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Schwab Foundation, part... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
within the confines society imposed. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies by Ronnie Lessem (MBA 1968) (Routledge) The BRIC countries are heralded for their double-digit economic growth rates, and yet, significant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Assets: These Little Piggies
Clients, friends, and later, students, also gave him flying pigs over the years, too. Lots of them. About a third of the collection, estimated at 50 items, has found a home in Fuller’s office in the Arthur Rock Center for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
many households, the most important symbol of their place and economic possibilities was where they lived. Before World War II, about 40 percent of families owned their own home. In 1970, a firm majority — 62 percent — did. By the late... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
guidelines and encouraging employees to create value through long-term thinking - rather than by trying to follow the latest "flavor-of-the-month." "Predictability is not certainty," Stevenson emphasizes. "It isn't about having a lifeless... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
enjoyed the process of creating something that people valued and would pay for." Her birthplace in Africa, combined with her education — boarding school in England, college and graduate school at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins — and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the center of both environmental quality and economic competitiveness. Cities that can harness public and private capital and competency to build out efficient infrastructure will be far more competitive than their less prescient peers in... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
MarketWatch commentary (February 1, 2011). “So by looking back at what worked for investors in the United States between the world wars, I believe I can peer into a time capsule to see what will work for investors today in China.” That means focusing on basic sectors... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
learn (or review) and then points to what the student should next master to proceed most efficiently to his or her knowledge goal. FAST FACT: Knewton was named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. DATA POINT: In a... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Emeritus Bill Sahlman (MBA 1975). During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
cofounder of Intuit, the world leader in software for personal and small business finance. After studying economics and math at the University of Southern California and earning his MBA, he learned the ropes of product marketing at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
grappled with whether we should cancel," said HBSAAA president Ken Powell (MBA '74). "We decided to go ahead because we wanted to contribute to New York's economic recovery as well as unite to support one another in difficult times,"... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
becoming an engineer, a course he pursued at the University of Virginia. He now jokes about how he “moonlighted” as an engineering student while pursuing his passion for the theater and community service. Upon graduation, Williams knew he wanted an engineering job that... View Details