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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
When Warren Buffett speaks at HBS, it's always standing room only in Burden Auditorium. The cavernous hall fills up early, reverberating with the mounting excitement of a revival meeting. When the 69-year-old investment sage finally takes the stage, thunderous applause... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- News
Hal (MBA 1968) and Diane Brierley
membership records. He couldn’t find one specializing in record keeping, so he and fellow research assistant, Tom Jones (MBA 1968), offered to serve as consultants and complete the project. That’s how Epsilon Data Management was born in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City
focused on 23andMe, whose sale of genetic testing kits directly to consumers was challenged by the Food & Drug Administration. Quelch, who coauthored the case, is also on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Turning Point: The Dark Season
illustration by Vahram Muradyan illustration by Vahram Muradyan A few years ago I went through a sort of wilderness experience, where nothing was lining up. I had to sell my car and move in with a roommate... View Details
Keywords: Jonathan Wilkins (MBA 2007, MDiv 2009)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
2010 to $9.2 billion in 2014, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. In the second quarter of this year, European venture capital firms raised a combined $2.25 billion, 63 percent more than over the same period last year. But that doesn't... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Ink: Comfort in Discomfort
Points that Challenge Every Company, by Andrew Grove; Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time, by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang; Double... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sculpt your body and help you prevent back pain and sleep better; and a holistic mind-body approach that really works. Faculty Books Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time by Geoffrey... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Photos by Chris Taggart “Some of the students I mentor, when they see a young guy in a leadership position who went to Harvard and worked on Wall Street, they assume I come from privilege,” says Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012).... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
leftover whipped cream I’d made for an apple pie—so I put a little in my iced coffee. Now every morning I say, ‘It’s a pandemic, I can have whipped cream in my coffee.’ ” In the queue: From Scratch, based on a memoir by Tembi Locke with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)
high-pitched speaking voice, he made a powerful impression. I next encountered him in March 1944. I was chief of the Third Army’s Test and Inspection Section, and our unit had been ordered overseas. At his headquarters in an elegant estate about 100 miles north of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Here? What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones (AMP 184) (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors make six key recommendations leaders should follow to transform... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
should lead by example. This strategy seems to have gotten results since their class raised over $7 million with a record-breaking level of participation for a 20th Reunion Campaign. GARRETT AND JONES Ashley... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
having a hard time getting funded. In fact, only 1 percent of venture capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available according to Dow Jones VentureOne. Not... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 23 Jul 2008
- News
A rummage in the corporate attic
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
participants attended a variety of talks, panel discussions, and seminars, including sessions led by Professor James L. Heskett and Associate Professor Kathleen L. Valley. A highlight of the conference was the presentation of professional... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
Paralympics, Golden Age Olympics, Senior Olympics, Junior Olympics, Special Olympics, or HBS Section Olympics. But I did mine the following nuggets about actual HBS Olympic athletes from the HBS Web site and the Harvard College list. The nuggets are arranged below... View Details