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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,...
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- 05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio
range of metrics, including their overall returns on sales and investment capital. But knowing all this didn't guarantee investors would be interested in their fund. To find that out, Dodi and Dorsen scheduled a roundtable discussion at...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
When Senior Lecturer José B. Alvarez was the CEO of Stop & Shop, he heard a recurring complaint from customers: The meat quality, they said, seemed to vary by the day. That’s the nature of meat: Nobody in the supply chain can guarantee...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit insurance is important - that is, those who need to know that...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
the initial workflow issues have been resolved. On-site finish work turned out to be a major problem. It’s the general contractor’s job to hook up the utilities and finish interior details once Greentech assembles its modular structures....
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- 19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
mortgage, there were only five-year mortgages. Therefore mortgages were only for the wealthy. And so the federal government said we want to create a middle class so they went to the banks and they said if you give a mortgage and use this new instrument called a 30-year...
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- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
deter him from a path to leadership. “If there is one thing that I pride myself on actually understanding today, it is organizational behavior. My low grade in OB motivated me to really figure it out, because in my job today, it is far...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
if her students failed to get jobs, so she immersed herself in their job searches and all but guaranteed their placement. It worked, generating powerful word-of-mouth buzz for her fledgling academy. More...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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My HBS Eureka Moment
and asked what they were.The driver proudly identified the place as Harvard Business School. He said that the best and brightest young men came there from all over the world to study business.He commented that HBS guaranteed every...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
sister. MY FIRST JOB was as a copyboy in the classified ad department. Our brand-new technology was 60 women on IBM Selectric typewriters. I would go around every few minutes to pick up their copy and take it to the composing room to be...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of William & Mary, then a View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
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Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
largely because I thought I could help the economy by creating jobs and value.” Cohen has more than just a passing knowledge of the economic conditions he is battling. Born in Cairo in 1945, the older son of a businessman whose family...
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- 01 Jun 2013
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School of Hard Knocks
because of my skin color. Recess was guaranteed torture. It started on my first day of school, when the tribal leader's son punched me in the face. I made the mistake of defending myself and fighting back and actually "won" that fight. No...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
firm owned a number of patents and was the inventor of the first portable welding machine. But it stood out in other ways, too. While Lincoln, a nonunion shop, offered no benefits, it provided guaranteed employment, had an employee...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
leaders in society, and the ed-ucational priorities that are behind the most ambitious fundraising effort ever undertaken by HBS. Looking back on the past year, the School — like other institutions around the world — faced a number of challenges, including the economic...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
tax incentives), they will work on the set for months at a time and follow through on marketing once the film is complete. However, there are often no guarantees that a project will make it to the big screen, and for that reason it’s...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2002
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Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
initiative. The Marriott program trains former welfare recipients and guarantees them jobs upon completion of their training. "The challenges of working with the unemployed has led the company to new...
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