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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
back home and was being sent to HBS by his bankers, who believed there was more he could learn about accounting. Gaines-Cooper was an astute financier but had never attended university. The Rolls, he confessed to Wallner, was all part of...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
trees, or at least our family trees: By 2026, the hunt for one’s lineage is forecasted to be an $8 billion industry globally. Genealogy consumers today expect their foray into the past to be aided by speedy and seamless technology....
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- 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader
authority on leadership — sees this phenomenon as a sign of the times. "The transition from the industrial age to the information age is a huge shift," he notes. "In all of human history, there have only been two other socioeconomic...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
million a year, and which critics argue is both financially and environmentally unsustainable. In the early 1970s, the city switched from metal trash cans to plastic bags, thereby establishing what Cohen has called a “rat nutrition...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy
incoming MBA Class of 2004 to restore confidence in America’s free enterprise system after public trust in business had been shaken by the Enron and WorldCom scandals. And in the wake of the global financial crisis, former Treasury...
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Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 2023
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The Exchange: Help Wanted
Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS...
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- 01 Aug 2012
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Face Fears with Courage
- 01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
insights could business leaders gain from this phenomenon? “Entrepreneurship is no longer something we see exclusively in tech hubs like Silicon Valley,” says Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration, who focuses on View Details
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Jennifer Mele
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
“Right now the industry is going through a massive hangover after a complete rager,” says Jo Tango (MBA 1995), a senior lecturer at HBS and a venture capitalist who has exited from three unicorns. Like any View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
momentum, as well as the uncanny levels of enthusiasm for the game, it’s no surprise that billions of dollars are being poured into the industry in the shape of pro teams and tournaments, franchises, broadcasting rights, and celebrity...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 1997
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J. Hughes Norton III
services. IMG also sponsors tournaments and events and does television production and merchandising as well. Behind this boom, however, is the industry concerned about overexposure or a backlash against the enormous sums athletes make? On...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
substances and stress. —Cecile Seth (MBA 1994) Excerpt Open Secret In his new book Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System, Raymond Baker (MBA 1960) examines...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Remix
community after their respective accusations against Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson. It’s one of the factors that helps explain why women of color report sexual assault at rates far below that of white women and a major force behind Dixon’s decision to leave the View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
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E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
Founding Managing Partner, Summit Partners Download Stamps profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Waycross, Georgia 1967 Earns BS, Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech 1968 Joins US Navy 1972 Earns...
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- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
share, murdering her new lover to increase the pressure. To end her nightmare, Anulka initiates a second round of embezzlement. Its success depends upon her involving Felix Hofmaier, a Frankfurt management consultant facing possible criminal charges—and View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall...
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