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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
himself as the victim of a tragedy, he used it to focus his life. "Why have I been put in this situation? What am I meant to do?" By 2014, Foster was in the midst of a flourishing tech and finance career, and he came to HBS to start the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
today's shareholders aren't quite up to making shareholder capitalism work. —Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at HBS. Justin Fox is editorial director of the HBR Group. The preceding is adapted from a longer article that appeared in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
A Canadian Hero
list of the most successful business leaders this country has ever produced," according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, is president and CEO of ONEX, a thriving public company he founded sixteen years ago. A diversified global firm... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
difficult for them." —Constantine von Hoffman covers business and finance for CBSNews.com and IT security for CIO magazine. HBS Clubs Make the Connection Nonprofits are among the most streamlined of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
doubt that it could radically transform sectors ranging from energy to finance and cybersecurity to transportation, but the potential is still mostly theoretical as scientists can’t quite grok all the implications yet. And a number of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
B. Clark on the HBS campus in October (click here). This year's fellows numbered 53, the highest participation level in the program's history. While the business community's commitment to the nonprofit sector is well established,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
author of Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. A business leader, entrepreneur, and consultant throughout her career, Ferracone, prior to launching Farient, led the Human Capital View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
faculty-led immersions and the student-organized treks familiar to many HBS alums. “Part of the experience is asking students to go out and find a business problem or opportunity, which is something you’ll have to do over and over as a... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
A Chance to Lead
John Brennan (MBA 1980) is chairman emeritus, the Vanguard Group. In this interview he recalls his early time at the business and the opportunity presented to him to lead. “In the summer of 1982, I moved out to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
5 Strategies for Securing Tech Startup Funding
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a business there. It went bankrupt during the Depression. I was... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
the farming aspect of the business is very capital intensive. But they’ve pursued a project financing model rather than venture financing. “Project financiers are not starry-eyed venture capitalists,” she... View Details
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
directions and lose its focus. Of course, throughout my entire three years in OPM, I was always referred to as the guy in heat. Arch was right on: it wasn’t long before my lack of focus caused my business to stutter, but I was able to... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- News
Managing the Unintended Consequences of Your Innovations
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
difficulties of flying in a post-9/11 world. Long lines at security, delays, and meager service were the least of it. For many business travelers, getting from a big city to a smaller one was a tricky, time-consuming proposition, often... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
es-says by the cocreator of the first spreadsheet, VisiCalc. Bricklin discusses how people and technologies — cell phones, e-mail, digital cameras, and personal Web sites, among others — affect one another and how the technologies can be improved. Rain: What a Paperboy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Hawes Hall Dedicated
whom delivered thoughtful and inspiring remarks at the dedication ceremony. Stressing his ultimate desire that the building will help the business community identify and solve worldwide problems, Rodney Hawes expressed his hope that, in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Painting, by the Numbers
You could call Richard Feigen (MBA '54) a dealer in commodities, but he might bridle at that characterization. An internationally known dealer in fine art who has been in the business for more than forty years, Feigen told the Boston... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at HBS in discussions of leadership, entrepreneurial marketing, finance, and ethics. I also spent some time at... View Details