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- 01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
responsibility with success, and that is leaving the world better than you found it," says Seth Klarman, who sees giving back as one of the key metrics to consider when gauging success. Another is whether one has created value for others. At Baupost, he says, "We've... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
accelerator Flat6Labs and its anchor investment in Algebra Ventures’ first fund. From there, it was an easy transition to a role as managing partner at Global Ventures, doing all the things hard-driving VCs do—like making presentations... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
'61) Founder and Managing Partner Idanta Partners Ltd. Each year a host of bright-eyed entrepreneurs make their way to San Diego to explain their dreams to Dave Dunn, one of the nation's leading venture capitalists. For every seven... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
philosophy that Mills — who graduated from HBS at a time when women managers felt driven to follow the fast track to "having it all" — has come to embrace. "I've learned that the right next step might be an evolution, or it might be a new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
benefits of these cuts would go “to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder,” he assured voters. And yet, of course, CEOs — let alone hedge fund managers — now routinely pay a lower proportion of their income in federal tax than... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits
products. Wood, Tilden’s COO, is a lifelong teetotaler who grew up in Las Vegas, in a family where drinking was not part of the custom. Later, as a management consultant, she found that many work events centered around alcohol, and people... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
management in colleges and universities. What the Customer Wants You to Know: How Everybody Needs to Think Differently about Sales by Ram Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) (Penguin Group) To upgrade the productivity of a company’s sales force,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
has been the inability for folks to be able to manage their personal family lives with kids studying at home. Not everybody has a setup where partners are able to split the work. But outside of that, there’s the benefits of lower stress... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables
by Susan Young For some people, the words "new economy" describe the advent of a revolutionary economic order based on technology-related innovation, entrepreneurial management, and information-driven enterprise. Others question the phrase entirely, arguing that the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
William Kerr and Joseph Fuller at podcast studio in Klarman Hall on HBS campus (photo by Susan Young) HBS launched the Managing the Future of Work project in 2017 to advance research that business and policy leaders can put into action as... View Details
- 24 Nov 2020
- News
Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
recommends alternatives that can result in stronger companies in the long run and reduce the damage layoffs do to workers and communities. “Typical layoffs harm employees, communities, and companies,” Sucher says. Mass layoffs were uncommon prior to the late 1970s,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Living Social
Business and business leaders are now being called upon to solve more social problems, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010). Segneri, who worked on public- and social-sector innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies, was recently named director of the School’s Social Enterprise... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
change, but we also realize that there is a manager managing these processes. If you have a good process and a non-inclusive manager, nothing will change. In the book we ask, What does it mean to be an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
advertising, particularly for determined adversaries. In this Q&A, Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, who designs electronic markets, explains how contract terms can be managed to both reduce advertisers’ risks of being defrauded and reward... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
Real estate has traditionally been a local business, but more and more, it’s becoming global, the same way so many other businesses have. On a year-to-year basis, we’ve been seeing global cross-border flows into real estate increase by 10 percent. In 2017, we continued... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
The Last Tycoon, and other stories, he addresses issues leaders face, such as the soundness of their vision, their readiness to take on responsibility, the depth of their compassion, and their ability to manage success. Institutions,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial revolution. Health care’s $2.2... View Details