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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and in a few cases by economies of scale. The Chemical/Chase merger is an example of the latter; there was so much overlap in back office costs and overhead that the new entity will save hundreds of millions in those outlays alone." The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy helped boost total... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
Julianne White (MBA 2017) is vice president for food acquisition at the Greater Boston Food Bank. How did you become interested in the food industry? “I grew up with a lot of ties to agriculture. I was raised in a small community where much of the local View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
inflection point today, and we must seize the opportunities before us that are central to our mission. Let me give you an example. In the coming years, the leaders of major enterprises will need a truly global perspective. Events such as the View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
student, such services may be offered months prior to the orientation program. Maureen Walker reports that "some students are identified in the admissions process as people who would benefit from prematriculation skills building." These may be individuals whose... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes For 25 years, David Brunell (MBA 1962) has worked in private sector development all over the world, transforming centralized economies to market-based View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
“think different,” to borrow a slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation:... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
and industry predictions, in their own words, follow below. Justin Dawe (MBA 2007) President, Scoot Networks “The more we use renewables and storage, the cheaper they get. That’s a really profound thing, when you think about what it means for building an View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
Co-Response Partnership, a pilot program implemented with the county’s mental health authority, Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network (DWIHN), designed to create better outcomes in emergencies involving first responders and citizens... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
marks clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It shows how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling. In order to prosper, business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
liquidity shock because of the extent of leverage, of debt that had emerged in the system. So the lack of knowledge about financial history, in your view, contributed to the current global financial crisis? I really believe that. It’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
driver, "I was at the building three minutes later," says Lhota, who started directing traffic, knowing that emergency vehicles would soon be arriving at the scene. "At this point, I assumed it was an accident." Lhota was spotted by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
entrepreneurs, Bradach and Tierney identified a problem in need of a solution. A booming economy during the 1990s, culminating in dot-com mania, generated a tremendous amount of new wealth that in turn ratcheted up the flow of charitable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
(MBA 1994) "For a pioneering intermediary like Gazelle, there are in principle two ways (not mutually exclusive) to sustain its advantage over the late but numerous entrants. One is to create network effects by moving to a marketplace intermediation model. The other is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
fact is that in many parts of the world, firms are not privately owned, and markets are regulated in various ways in all countries. Still, we found that most people we talked to understood the differences between the system we find in most markets today and the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
everything from cleaning to prescription pickup. But one of the biggest innovations was behind the scenes: Beck and Sapone eschewed the independent contract workers driving the on-demand economy in favor of hiring employees—full-time... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics... View Details