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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL,...
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- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Contribution to Society? edited by Mette Morsing and Alfons Sauquet. Sage Publications, forthcoming Abstract As business education in an academic setting becomes an increasingly global phenomenon, the university-based business school in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
economic actors. Capitalist competition takes place in markets that exist in legal and regulatory frameworks and are governed by a political authority with the power and legitimacy to empower as well as regulate behavior and punish...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
HBS benefactor Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) and then HBS Dean Jay Light. In a single year, while leading the HBS capital campaign, Stevenson made 277 one-on-one alumni visits. In 1983, a third development, especially significant for HBS, were...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
disappointments? To learn more about some of the ramifications, pitfalls, and managerial issues associated with the M&A; process, the Bulletin asked a number of HBS faculty members to comment on the M&A; phenomenon from their several vantage points and areas of...
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Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
by his example. He grew up in a very small village in India and was one of the first people in his family to attend college, where he studied engineering. He then went to England to get a diploma in management from Manchester Business...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
the twelfth grade,” recalls Eustis. “He was a real tough, volatile type of guy. He played football. He was later rumored to be the smartest kid ever to graduate from our high school.” During those same years, McArthur worked part-time in a sawmill run View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social...
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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Business School, olvwork88210Founded in 1881 by two non-Native white men, John Healy and Charles Bigelow, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company sold “healing” salves and cures, including a concoction they called “Sagwa.” Allegedly derived...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
resilience of childhood. The High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader by Jay Conger (DBA 1985) and Allan Church HBR Press Being seen as a high-potential leader is...
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