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- 14 Jun 2020
- News
Private equity barons grow rich on $230bn of performance fees
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
KKR, a private-equity giant, lays out its succession plan
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Company” In 1997, a portion of the Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewage System is taken over by a joint venture, the Manila Water Company, which must develop the newly acquired employees and assets into a profitable firm. I work in...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Robert Buzzell Remembered
Buzzell Photo Courtesy HBS Communications An expert in strategic marketing, Robert D. Buzzell, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, died last November in Virginia. He was 71. Buzzell was perhaps best known for his role in the formulation and View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
clear that innovative accounting and control tools are needed to implement strategy appropriate to the business dynamics of the 21st century. He offers important new techniques such as profit wheel analysis...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
knowledgeable ambassadors armed with cost-saving solutions customers will be happy to pay for. His method involves “value creation selling,” that is, reconfiguring a sales force’s orientation toward customers’ profitability before its own...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable growth. Private-equity boards...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
school topic," says Rayport, who has witnessed a phenomenal increase in interest in the Internet and in Internet-based commerce. Today, every major business school is in hot pursuit of research and analysis of what's going on in the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
this growth is inevitable as the divide between man and machine blurs. Hot Stocks: Investing for Impact and Profit in a Warming World by James Ellman (MBA 1994) Rowman & Littlefield The world is warming, our portfolios will have to adapt,...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
buying-patterns should set off alarms. Why hasn't this issue received more attention? In this country, we've had an implicit cost-benefit analysis in the backs of our minds for many decades that the movement of other people's money,...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
or shortcomings in growing their companies and new ventures. This book blends exclusive research findings, personal interviews, and experienced analysis to illustrate how each type handles the five dynamic challenges of building...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
they really need to be able to analyze what the chances are that the mortgage will be prepaid - in other words, what the risk is to them. What our analysis did, in addition to improving the means to price options, was to provide a way to...
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- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or when scales are circumvented. The...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
one moderately successful product — Stove Top stuffing mix. " Armed with this information, he quickly advised the firm to refocus its efforts on acquiring established but undermarketed concerns, which eventually led to GF's profitable...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
where analysis of the facts and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test managers’ skills and humanity. Badaracco presents a five-question framework offering a way for managers to balance their analytical work with the human...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
embracing diversity as an asset. The immediate priorities—partisan gerrymandering, voter participation, and campaign finances—took shape out of Leadership Now’s own data analysis and build on research from across Harvard, such as HBS...
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