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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Seeing Things Others Don’t
HEEBNER: Mad genius, hot investor. The cover of Fortune magazine (June 9, 2008) didn’t pull any punches. Above a photo of Ken Heebner (MBA ’65), a banner headline screamed “America’s Hottest Investor,” and below that, the magazine declared, “With a 24% annual return... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the government was unable to show... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
Mencoff: A commitment to meritocracy as a core American value. Photo courtesy Samuel Mencoff “A cross between Walter Wriston and Davy Crockett” is how Sam Mencoff (MBA 1981) and his classmates used to affectionately describe HBS finance professor Hank Reiling. “That... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is better suited for today’s less... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Happening Fast
Erdoes: "There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out." Photo courtesy J.P. Morgan Overseeing some $1.3 trillion as CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA ’93) is “one of the most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
Grantham: For this investor and environmental advocate, “the rather burdensome thought is that people won’t listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me.” Jeremy Grantham (MBA ’66), founder and chief strategist of the Boston-based... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
educators, policymakers, and labor leaders to spark a revival of middle-skills jobs.” Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) set out to build a car manufacturer from scratch, no holds barred. The result is Arizona-based Local Motors, a decentralized tech company that produces... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the sources of energy on which civilization depends have always changed as technology advances. Now renewables are overtaking fossil fuels, with wind and solar energy becoming cheaper and more competitive every year. Growth in renewable energy will further accelerate... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
like that. We saw that there was an opportunity to bring cleaner and cheaper energy through solar energy to these companies. “We started CrossBoundary Energy as an affiliated investment vehicle to help finance solar energy for businesses... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Harvard College. Instead, he opted for HBS and then a job in Mumbai with his father at Mahindra Ugine Steel (MUSCO). Soon after he arrived, the young Harvard MBA was called on to restructure and diversify MUSCO. That was the preparation he needed to join utility View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Turning Point: Into the Wild
on one of our host’s horses. It was a beautiful day, and as I rode I began to see all kinds of wildlife—impalas, dik-diks, wildebeests, giraffes. I got closer to the game on horseback than I ever could have in a vehicle because, to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
process. "For one of the products in our sample, the designers had only coded about 30 percent of the new functionality before putting it into customers' hands," notes MacCormack. "From that point on, this early version of the product became a View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Business School Publishing) This history doubles as a sophisticated account of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
offered in conjunction with this month's reunions: Transitions and Transformation and Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader. These were tailored specifically to the needs of alumni. In addition, the committee has urged the School to monitor existing... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
enhance the value of the MBA Program by creating a true partnership among faculty, students, and administrators. The Student Association seemed a good vehicle for implementing those ideas; in tandem with the School's MBA: Leadership &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
against fraud and corruption. I was in Iraq for three days last August. To be honest, things did not feel good, even then. Baghdad used to be a bustling, thriving metropolis, but when I was there, it truly looked like an occupied city — military View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
foster the integration of competition and corporate strategy with economic policy and social development in ways that not only advance theory but also connect with actual practice," Porter observed. "It will be a vehicle for partnering... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
keeping an eye on capital costs are among the major challenges ahead. Of her goals, Nichols observes, "My desire is to build something I'm proud of - an excellent management team, a great product, and a significant value creation vehicle... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick