Filter Results
:
(65)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (272)
- Faculty Publications (19)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (272)
- Faculty Publications (19)
Page 1 of
65
Results
→
Sort by
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Buy Big, Sell Small
cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their...
View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. It became a New York Times bestseller and received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book published in 1997. More than two decades later, business leaders from around the world continue to...
View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before attending HBS. More than 8 percent of...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and...
View Details
Keywords:
Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs Emerson Electric: a master at...
View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
but relatively unknown organization with assets of $200 million. The firm was drowning in paperwork, and its employee turnover rate was 43 percent. McDermott changed all that, successfully diversifying USAA into areas such as mutual funds, banking, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of legislative repair, along with limiting leverage and reforming the credit rating system (see Setting...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
freshman in high school when the 9/11 attacks happened. That event had a significant impact on me,” he explains. After the Academy, he earned a master of science degree at MIT and then worked for three years at the US Air Force Space and...
View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
David M. Hughes
of whom he was one). Hughes also ran two student orientations for members of the Class of 1998 (one last fall and one in January) - complex, time-consuming, and largely thankless projects. Expanding orientation activities significantly, Hughes - and colleagues with...
View Details
Keywords:
Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement
all ages feel strongly connected to other HBS graduates both professionally and socially. There is a strong sense of indebtedness to the alumni network and a willingness to give back to others. Younger alumni feel more connected to the School and View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company...
View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
for nine years.) He eventually had to step away from Academic Decathlon, but he has enjoyed watching the competition flourish and become a household name—and is thrilled when the event comes up in casual conversation and he’s able to...
View Details
Keywords:
Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event that the Big Three contributed to by giving overly optimistic...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
custom-built satellites and a proprietary analytics platform to gather and analyze satellite images for commercial customers. Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew Minnick credits several technological advances with putting...
View Details
Keywords:
Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
was packed for the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. — well before the usual Sunday start time for most students. I was lured to the event in part by the buildup it had gotten in the press. Weeks beforehand, Forbes named it one of the top...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
long been a focus of my own research." The case outlines the events that led to Morton's consideration of Buffett's offer to buy 63 newspapers from his highly leveraged company, which had experienced a 31 percent decline in revenues over...
View Details