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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles and the principles of an open... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
Fifteen-year-old Saffronart, cofounded by Dinesh Vazirani (MBA 1994), was one of the earliest entrants, creating both a market for Indian art and an early model for bringing offline auctions online—one that has been copied by many. Even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
here, Whillans offers straightforward strategies for gaining control over that most precious asset of all. Beware of time confetti. Our near-constant connection to technology leads to social media and email disruptions and “time... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
international big-ticket asset financing. After being invited to speak at the HBS Aerospace and Aviation Club, he was inspired to endow a fellowship that would benefit students pursuing careers in the aviation, aerospace, and defense... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
described in terms meaningful to this market through the company's first direct-to-the-consumer advertising. Production runs were lengthened and inventory simplified. Glass decoration was all but eliminated and, like Ford's Model-T, color... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
so that it was sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
immediate goal was to encourage MBA students to leverage their education to confront the most pressing challenges facing society. This spring, we helped teach our case study, West Virginia: Finding the Right Path Forward, in Professor Matt Weinzierl's course, Role of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Walgreens has made a concerted effort to locate more stores in urban areas where residents do not have access to large drugstores, recognizing a considerable, underserved market that has been documented in ICIC research. City dwellers are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
the right inputs to grow more and access the right markets to sell more. Co-ops are one way to do this (form a group to access credit for inputs and sell products in bulk), but they are notoriously messy and hard to sustain. There are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro, who encouraged Light’s growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Entertainment Group and ahead of Cinemark Theatres), AMC has 345 theaters and nearly 5,000 screens across the United States, with about 20,000 employees hosting some 200 million moviegoers each year. (AMC has the largest market share in... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
ECY winners for more than 20 years. “We care about, and choose, companies that will hopefully stand the test of time,” says Druyan. “We look at market cap, growth, whether it’s a compelling business. Companies have to be fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
first-time investors.” “These stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors.” Meme stocks are reminiscent of past price bubbles in asset markets, Cohen observes. “In the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
several decades before an effective system of rules will govern China"), the burden of bloated state firms, and lack of experience with a market economy. Yet the mainland giant is likely to "continue to grow rapidly for the next two to... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes