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- 25 Apr 2014
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Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
approach is not enough to ensure extraordinary financial performance, according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program. He has defined a broader...
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- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 2017
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New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
Business Publishing. Scholarship advanced by the new regional offices is wide-ranging: Dubai: “Emaar: The Center of Tomorrow, Today,” a case written by Sid Yog (MBA 2004), senior lecturer at HBS, focusing on a listed real estate developer...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus....
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
highest-quality, lowest-price source, and that is often overseas. We buy locomotives primarily from General Electric; we’re taking delivery of fifty new units this year.” In short, the freight-rail business...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the View Details
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago
venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these...
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- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in part by British government...
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- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
less so. Taylor contributed to a not-for-profit to help pay airfare to bring orphans to the United States for month-long summer vacations with prospective adopting families. The program ran so well, he doubled his loan the following year....
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
Hitler’s popularity grew, Boris emigrated to the United States with his wife and four children, settling in Dayton, Ohio. Times were tight and jobs few and far between. Boris heard about work at a shoe factory, but when he arrived, he...
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- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
to explore the impact of a specific media source on the business landscape. "Depending on what the media reports on, it can actually create reputational costs for firms," says Jonas Heese, an assistant professor in the...
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- 04 May 2015
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Alumni in Paris Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Alumni young and old gathered in Paris on May 4 to celebrate and socialize. Alumni and friends of Harvard Business School from across France gathered in Paris on May 4, 2015 to celebrate and connect with each other as the School hosted “A...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks...
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- 26 Feb 2014
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The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
HERMAND-WAICHE What's the story behind Adore Me? "I had always wanted to start a company in the United States and after three years at McKinsey & Company, and following my graduation from HBS, I felt ready to take the plunge. Prior to...
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Jason Flood
up-close experience of the United States’ health care system. “There were mind-boggling inefficiencies both in terms of delivery and coordination,” Jason says. “We had multiple doctors who failed to communicate to each other and ordered...
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Claire Freidman
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I spent five years working in finance. My clients were entertainment companies and I knew I wanted to switch careers and work on the operations or strategic side...
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- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
places that aren’t on most people’s vacation lists. “My wife often jokes that every vacation we’ve taken since we first met involves visiting an orphanage or refugee camp,” says Wu, who is driven by a desire to help others just as he and his family were helped when...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
encouraged than discouraged.” As one of the key business leaders who has spoken out about corporate responsibility, Paulson praised the free-market system and cautioned that the United States must be careful...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Capitalism’s New Agenda
School’s centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States to consider the future of the global market system. In keeping...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a View Details