Portfolio Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

believe investing in women-led companies will make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in top positions of corporate... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

although from the beginning it has been closely affiliated and supported by Bain & Company, where Tierney was worldwide managing director before leaving in 2000 to cofound Bridgespan. Over the years, Bain’s support has been instrumental... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

and have the benefit of significant life experience. They have a lot more to offer than someone off the street who gets the bug and decides to run.” A Change of Pace Beth Terrana (MBA ’83) Age: 47 Home: Wellesley, Massachusetts As a senior vice president and View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away

capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment. After a few fits and starts... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore. Faculty Books Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage by Laura Huang, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Organizational Behavior Unit Portfolio... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No... View Details

16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany

philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

manage them properly. This frenetic activity was more than a game of corporate musical chairs. More fundamentally, it was a story of a search for identity by an industry whose borders were still unclear. It was also a search for the right... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

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