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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Alumni Books The Saudi Kingdom by Ali Al Shihabi (MBA 1985) (Markus Wiener Publishers) Al Shihabi presents an analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political stability in light of mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
directors hold large blocks of stock in public corporations, those firms experience increased performance relative to competing firms whose board members lack such significant holdings. "Sophisticated large-block owners are beneficial to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
care, plus some drug coverage — was rejected. It smacked of a “two-tiered” system, he says, and was unacceptable for political reasons. Costs have thus been significantly higher than expected because the standard plan — with a View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
itself. Viana sensed that the workers, and brand, enjoyed broad-based public support. So he turned to crowdfunding, still a relatively unfamiliar concept in France, posting his cause on the site Bulb in Town and cross- promoting his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
that pose no systemic risk should face relatively light regulation, ensuring their continued dynamism and innovation. If Moss’s tough love approach to the biggest financial institutions sounds familiar, you’re right. Treasury Secretary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid’s peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
www.buildcommonwealth.org. My first outlet for teaching the topic was an executive education program that I cochaired with HBS professor emeritus Dwight Crane for the Credit Union Executives Society. It was a relatively short hop from... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing differently." His in-depth financial... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
the product is designed—the physical attributes of the product. And he came up with five factors: Relative advantage: Is it better than what it’s replacing? Compatibility: Is it compatible with the way people currently do things?... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
celebrates the final approval with them. The price for its assistance for a marriage green card application: $950, a fraction of the cost of a personal immigration attorney. “We are doing this at scale,” Wang says to explain the savings.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. With this graceful, authoritative biography, McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, has all but ensured that a seminal but relatively uncelebrated twentieth-century visionary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
Education reunion attendees and found that while only subtle changes were needed to improve the MBA reunion experience, the Executive Education model should be addressed more closely. The committee’s recommendation was to undertake a full View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
administration in February proposed phasing out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises whose collective missteps have cost taxpayers more than $134 billion since being placed in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
Chernilovskiy and Eykher, Kazzinc’s CFO, were suddenly facing an urgent need to reduce costs and improve cash flows. At the same time, they were growing acutely aware of the industry’s inequity: Miners (who produce raw materials) and... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Fortunately, says Lerner, the opportunities for entrepreneurs have probably never been better, in part because the cost of starting a business has never been lower and in part because the mania for investing in startups has led to all... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
“completely revolutionized our business in terms of operations and streamlining,” Cleary says. With a relatively small $20 million in robo-advised accounts, “the effect on the revenue side was minimal, but the positive effect on the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of the industry," talking to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
platters in counts of 30 each. “But for me to have 100 original pieces to offer a catering company, that’s a relatively big investment for a small and young business,” she says. Rentals accounted for a third of Clay’s revenue in the first... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint