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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
undercapitalized to meet its new demands and why public ownership was an important solution. When our public offering went through, many other firms followed suit.” In 1973, a...
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- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
that we were enabling people to scale up, to be the platform for this exchange and to help partnerships where corporates could find not-for-profits, not-for-profits could find donors, so that the whole sector could grow. Public Service...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of internet- ready cell phone View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Capitalism Constrained: Public Policy and the Manager, examines the role of the state in five economic sectors: energy, communications, transportation, health, and the environment. "Deregulation, with roots in the U.S. political economy...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
SOMETHING NEW happening with the newspaper ownership model. With John Henry, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos, we're starting to get some enlightened buyers. It's the first ray of hope I've seen in a while. The Seattle Times is one of only...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
On the regulatory front, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and a relaxation of restrictions on multiple ownership of media outlets are realigning and consolidating the power of media ownership. Lastly, in the economic arena, a wave of...
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
running M&A and strategy for a public company and did 17 acquisitions around the globe. I think of it as kind of one of those best laid plans stories. Sometimes it doesn't work out exactly the way you wanted it to and it takes a...
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- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
look like when she was an investment banker. Originally from Los Angeles, Clarke is a “triple-winner” at Harvard, having earned her undergraduate, law, and business degrees from the University. While interest in such areas as constitutional law, View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
their own. The state subsidizes residents who have incomes that meet or somewhat exceed federal poverty guidelines. An independent public authority, known informally as the Health Connector, helps individuals and small businesses choose...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
Dooley in the early 1970s to meet a need unfulfilled by other HBS executive education programs. As it became clear that ownership made a difference in the attitudes and goals of the participants, the View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
visible component of a business with increasingly explosive, multifaceted economic aspects. Yet despite these turbulent conditions, there's no shortage of new ownership wanting to jump into the game. For example, two new baseball...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Brian Hall: Checks and Balances In the wake of these events afflicting corporate America, I find I’ m thinking harder about what I’ m teaching in terms of creating shareholder value. I’ ve always been a big proponent of the idea that View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
from the book follow. An Affront to Public Morality The beauty business began modestly with the sale of products widely deemed an affront to public morality. Today, consumers around the world spend $330...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
debt-saddled buyout later, Zell is taking a machete to payrolls, pages, and pencils and staplers. Rupert Murdoch is asserting his personal imprimatur on his newly acquired Wall Street Journal, disabusing his minions of the notion that he would be a hands-off sponsor....
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Finale’s original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island–based holding company where Conforti now serves as managing partner of the restaurant group. “When I started Finale, I...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
chairman and CFO, BankBoston, Cumberland Foreside, Maine As context, I come from a family dedicated to public service. After graduating from HBS, I spent 20 years at a (then) large bank (25,000 employees, strong international presence,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a historical perspective on U.S....
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a...
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