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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Agri-Food Entrepreneurs. We are currently supporting entrepreneurs in 34 African countries to scale their businesses. Changing narratives and driving transformation is a complex process. However, I am most inspired by the young African... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
choice is horse racing, not baseball, and the heroes are mostly of the four-footed variety. Just across the road is Keeneland, a sprawling auction and racing complex where Robert Clay (OPM 4, 1980) recently sold a horse from his nearby... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
of its quagmire. "The event at the School is fascinating not only because it exposes students to complex social sector issues, but also because it forces up-and-coming Cleveland leaders who attend to engage in the same core content,"... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
investment in improving everyday life in Detroit by a national retailer—that people didn’t believe could happen in the city. “Uncertainty is a horrible constraint for investment,” Cummings says of Detroit’s financial chaos prior to the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Fouraker’s Deanship (1970 to 1980), in particular, McArthur held a range of increasingly important administrative positions. He also took on a highly unusual outside-world assignment as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation Company. It was an... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
that, and over the next several years conducted pathbreaking work on the international automobile industry and other complex topics. Written by Robert H. Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, and Professor Marco... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
we think about everything," he remarked. "Information technology has to march in lockstep with business," agreed Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir. Software that automates complex transactions and expanding customer service on the Web are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
visions of what it means to retire. (We didn’t come up with a better word, although one member of the Class of 1958 referred to a state of “re-inspirement” in his 45th Reunion book.) What the five seem to have in common — aside from a level of View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
in higher education. We have the largest school system in the world, one that’s complex and was already underperforming, especially on learning dimensions. See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
business plan with a clear path to financial success? Absolutely. With Facebook, we saw an opportunity to build a deep and growing engagement with a targeted demographic. Very typically we look for a business plan that demonstrates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
perfect set of slides to convince investors to back you and your venture. The authors, veterans of the startup world, show you how to create a compelling pitch deck and how to plan and execute a fundraising road show to garner financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
student, at the Dance Complex in Cambridge. The first sixteen years of Martín Curiel’s life followed the cycles of the harvest. As migrant farmworkers, his parents moved Curiel and his two sisters from Mexico to the United States, where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
Baer and Magowan’s efforts to put together a bid to keep the team in San Francisco kicked into high gear. With financial promises from a stellar list of Northern California investors that included Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), Charles Schwab,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
financial losses, and a large amount of wasted time for everyone involved. This book was written to help a person, family, or team transform any challenge or problem using a proprietary six-step process. It brings organizations together... View Details