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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his own financial future. Rapaport... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA 1983) was classic HBS: He worked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
running in a district that is small-town (Waco and College Station are the largest cities) and blue-collar. His great-grandfather cofounded Humble Oil, one of the companies that created what’s now Exxon Mobil. Taylor disclosed in View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
system, and other countries have lessons to offer. Are you optimistic that health-care reform is imminent? We cannot continue on our present course in health care. The current system will not allow us to remain financially sound and still... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
chance to see and experience China’s modernization firsthand. The conference itself took place in a high-rise-studded financial district that didn’t exist just a decade ago. And the event put a spotlight on the School’s deepening... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
system. In August 2020, Mercy Corps handed over the management of the system and its distribution network to the local utility company. (Ezra Millstein/Mercy Corps) On a Wednesday afternoon in early August, McKenna is Zooming from her home office with her head of View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them in their home, meeting their family.” That human connection, she says, is often valued above the financial incentive in Cuba. Gordon gives an example: When hiring a group of economists from the University of Havana for a consulting... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
wasn’t an easy decision to make, given the financial implications, but as Fenton recalls, “It still felt like the right timing. It was the height of the dot-com boom, so lots of people in my class were taking risks.” Eleven years later,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
section focusing on the startup phase (taught by Professor Patrick Liles) and the other on operational problems and strategies (taught by Professor Dick Dooley). Dooley went on to pioneer the Smaller Company Management Program (now the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We didn't have a lot of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
Early in his career, for example, he revived the Investment Management course, developing new and timely materials that soon attracted approximately five hundred students per year. As Associate Dean for Executive Education and External Affairs from 1972 to 1977, Crum... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
As a part of his campaign strategy for the Student Association presidency, Dobron took the unusual step of creating a team of four sectionmates to help him develop a platform based on issues of importance to the student body. Once... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Managing Family Assets
I feel extremely fortunate. I also feel I was handed a responsibility to be a steward of the wealth that was created by my great-grandfather and my grandfather and perpetuated by my father. Why is discussing financial matters difficult... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time, in service to his country,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
Coleman Professor of Financial Management. “We are surprised by how teams come in and say we talked to the CEO,” laughs Cohen. One of the key lessons in Cohen and Malloy’s field course, Stock Pitching, is that the market is almost always... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
seven children, says that though she experienced her share of racism and misogyny as every Black woman has, she is grateful for all she experienced growing up. She moved to London with her dad, Bruce Bond, who had taken a job as director of View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
his staff's recommendations to approve new schools, let current charters expand, or close those plagued by low performance or financial mismanagement. "We give them many years of warnings, and we publish a report every year that shows... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
Kathleen McGinn, senior associate dean for Faculty Strategy and Recruiting. A key goal of the program is to increase the amount and depth of research conducted at HBS on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We hope to attract to this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
different outlets. Instead of saying we’re the outlet that is the best at political news or at financial news, we provide access to the best and most unbiased reporting for any given subject material. We want to make fact-first news easy... View Details