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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
Left to right: Feeley, Belkin, O'Donnell, Mathias, and Benton It was, in the words of one MBA '71 yearbook scribe, "a trying two years" at HBS. The class that celebrates its 25th Reunion this year came to Soldiers Field in September 1969,...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
alone. They’re doing it to make an impact.” And sometimes, they’re doing it because they see an opportunity that their employer doesn’t. Draper followed the development of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology and tracked down the founders of Kazaa who had View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
the last five years, we’ve also become mindful that we need to understand better parts of the world that feel left behind by globalization. In 2018, I joined a group of faculty members on a trip to rural...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
to underinvest in investees with greater accounting distance significantly weakens when accounting distance is reduced either from an investee's IFRS adoption or from IFRS adoption in the investor's country. The latter finding holds despite the fact that IFRS adoption...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
ourselves against other countries,” he says. “There’s the feeling that India will be left behind if it doesn’t improve its infrastructure — it has no choice.” In any discussion...
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Julia Hanna
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
51 years later? First, my years in the Navy were anything but a dead end. I supervised 70 sailors, providing accounting and logistic services to a scout submarine squadron. My boss, commander, and later a Rear Admiral, Ted Walker, was one of the best of several mentors...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
with fellow alumni from around the world. While sub-Saharan Africa - consisting of the 48 countries south of the Sahara desert -is underdeveloped and faces staggering challenges, experts agree that the region, with its vast natural resources and 600 million...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
future begins along Woodward Avenue in the central business district—“Dan Gilbert’s duchy,” Cummings says, as he navigates the city behind the wheel of a silver Chrysler minivan, his Detroit-made Shinola watch glinting in the sun. Gilbert...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank could be rescued and mandating an after-the-fact audit by the Comptroller General. But because Bear and AIG...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
behind her. “Is Uncle Sean coming over tonight?” Her son Colson, 8, has bounced up the stairs and straight into her video frame. Dad catches up seconds later, gives Colson an about-face, and closes the door gently View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Communist Party, which had ruled China since 1949. Xi inherited a country far more unequal than the one that Mao Zedong, Communist China's first leader, had left behind in 1978. The growth of markets had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Taiwanese businessman and philanthropist, passed away in 2008. He left behind an estate worth U.S. $5.5 billion but did not leave a will. The case discusses the potential motivation for Wang and uses it to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
cannot be successful unless they show vulnerability, are consistent, take time to be balanced, have a vision, and embrace their role as decision-makers. In the 2010 case “Toby Johnson: Leading After School,” Johnson, with military service View Details
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson;
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries;
Arts, Entertainment;
National Security and International Affairs;
Government;
Health, Social Assistance;
Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services;
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Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing;
Manufacturing;
Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services;
Professional Services
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
certainly thinking about not leaving anyone behind when it comes to a set of the workforce that needs to transition, maybe, from industries that are no longer kind of viable and vibrant.Kerr: Yeah, you got...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
CHROs of big blue-chip companies, as well as folks like the NBA. So this weird mélange of experiences kind of brought me into the administration. I got the call for this job on January 7, 2021, the day after the insurrection. And anyone who knows in D.C. where Labor...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
looking for a business to buy when I had no money, and people didn’t really want to talk to me. But it took around ten years to sell it, which is a very long exit strategy. We could have found somebody to liquidate the business and take...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
average cardholder owned 4.6 credit cards. On some of these cards, interest rates were as high as 30 percent. The use of consumer credit, while by no means new, reached unprecedented levels in the early twenty-first century ....
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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
had nothing to do with the trouble. Because the scandal effect is lasting, a company you left long ago could have an impact on your current and future job mobility, not to mention your compensation. Overall, executives who suffer from the...
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Carmen Nobel