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- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
I’m just back from vacation and the usual summer fun: swimming, boating, murder and mayhem. Oh, that last part no worries, it got no further than my hammock. That’s where I finally got around to reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first in Swedish author Stieg... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Harreld describe how IBM managed to survive a crisis in the early 1990s and reposition itself to lead the industry. The lesson from IBM is that innovation is not a side business but the very foundation of a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of finance at the Boston office of one such organization, The Community Builders, Inc. (TCB), which has... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in assets, managed on behalf of an exclusive group of private... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
pain: major surgery requiring months of recuperation or meditation to manage the stress that was at the root of his health issues. But the practice didn’t fit with his image of a type A, high-powered executive. “I came to meditation... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
price and getting the gowns approved. “One of the hardest things about this health care crisis is recognizing how serious it is. At the same time, you’re seeing all of this energy and optimism and everyone working together in really... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
general management tour of duty,” says Marcelo, who found enthusiastic mentors at the young company and was soon asked to join the management team. Also during this time, a frightening family incident helped... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
that had staked their reputations on academic superiority — faced a full-blown crisis of identity and purpose. It was no longer possible for business schools to tout a mission of educating managers according... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
reasonable view of home ownership will return, Retsinas predicts, but if the pendulum swings too far, he is concerned that worthy borrowers with modest incomes could be shut out of the market. Could you place the U.S. mortgage crisis in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s book excerpt on “Chimerica”!... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
going to be taught this year, and we’re asking students to focus on how Apple and Google managed a public health crisis, where literally millions of people were dying from COVID-19 around the globe. Was it okay for Apple to say to... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we opted for a strategic partnership... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
time when Reddit is going through changes. It had just had a management change. The CEO had exited, the founders came back. There had been, obviously this is a very active user base, so there had been some upheaval a little bit in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
For many managers today, the greatest business challenges are no longer technical; rather, they involve figuring out how to put more "soul" into the workplace. For Belinda L. Bothwick (MBA '77), however, the new executive director of... View Details