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- 25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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A Man without a Pause
it into a far more effective organization, championing such causes as debt relief for poor nations and the opening of rich countries’ markets to exports from developing nations. For him and his wife, Elaine,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and...
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- 04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
the significant debt that might have hindered his social entrepreneurship goals. The idea for the Fundación México en Harvard was born in 1989 after a small group of Mexican HBS graduates learned a single, dramatic statistic: half of the...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
viable,” says Slaughter. Today, CMBS represent a $550 billion market. It’s hard to overestimate the impact of this market restructuring. In fifteen years, the public equity and debt View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
then work equally hard to make sure the students we want can come to Soldiers Field. The prospect of graduating with high levels of debt can narrow our applicant pool and restrict the career paths of our graduates, so we are working to...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
During the 1960s and 1970s, U.S. textile, apparel, and shoe manufacturing migrated to Latin America and Asia. By 1990 many products formerly manufactured in the United States were being produced abroad. In addition, foreign automakers were taking View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS
guaranteeing long-term debt from the market against government contractual obligations. "A big lesson I took away from the course," Shapiro says, "is the importance of gaining internal acceptance for...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1999
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Q & A: Herb Kohl
they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start,...
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Susan Young
- 19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
fish” as a mantra. On some wall on campus we found a stuffed fish and used that in our class picture. Man, were we wild or what! OPM 17's favorite saying is “Look at the fish.” The first paper we read in Marty Marshall’s marketing class...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
Understanding that for many prospective students the greatest barriers to attending graduate school are financial, HBS is taking proactive steps to make the MBA Program more affordable. The School has held tuition flat for the past five years, and in August 2022...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
assets—which Greece has had a wealth of in recent years. Indeed the last decade has been rough on the country, to vastly understate the impact of a sovereign debt crisis that nearly kneecapped the entire eurozone. A succession of three...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2009
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From Bytes to Bites
restaurants’ finances and operations. “It’s been extremely stressful since December,” she admits. Debt and loan management, meetings with her seven-person senior management team, profit and loss reports, View Details
- 08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes
day one of the takeover, we had a lot more debt than we anticipated. Then there was the October '87 stock market crash, which really hurt our asset sale program in Australia. So by the end of '87, we had in...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977
two years at Soldiers Field had prepared us to size up a competitor, motivate employees, and gain market share, but we could not have anticipated the many other ways in which our leadership skills would be put to the test. Much has been...
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Desmond Wong
- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
ANDRUS: Unemployed at graduation, an unlikely and inspiring odyssey takes him from his parents’ basement to the corner office of a company on the cutting edge. Photos by August Miller HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top
Professor of Business Administration, gave the second case presentation on First Direct, a "virtual" bank in England that has built tremendous market share by providing services via telephone. MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 21 Oct 2013
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Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological innovation, developing organizational capabilities, and finding new View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into one of the world's largest advertising and marketing services organizations. With revenues of around $12 billion, it comprises some of the most famous firms in advertising, marketing, and public relations. He is now positioning WPP...
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