Filter Results
:
(69)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(460)
- News (69)
- Research (240)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (102)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(460)
- News (69)
- Research (240)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (102)
Sort by
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
student debt is rising steeply. Last year, nearly half of all MBA students received support from fellowships — need-based grants applied directly to their costs. The average...
View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
Walter J. Salmon Photo: Harvard Business School When he died in March at the age of 84, Walter J. Salmon left behind a legacy that included seven books, several hundred case studies, and thousands of former students taught over the course...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
even when that is costly or difficult or unpopular. It’s a choice to leverage up your company to the hilt, to pile on nonrecourse debt to pay special dividends to the owners and then walk away if the business falters and the View Details
Keywords:
Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
Lavines, who are serving as cochairs of their class’s 25th Reunion Campaign, are particularly interested in supporting students who are the first in their families to attend college. They have specified that where possible, the...
View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase workforce diversity. As a summer intern...
View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
after he graduated from HBS, when Loews bought Bulova in 1979. “Although Bulova had a strong brand name,” he explains, “we soon realized it was losing out to its Japanese competitors in technology, styling, quality, marketing, and service.” With View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
progress. That’s where my focus is these days.” Richard America was already a focused individual when he arrived on the HBS campus in 1961. He was one of four African-American students at the School, but that wasn’t the only thing that...
View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
and Doctoral student should come to a close in Aldrich 111, where in May 2019 she defended her doctoral dissertation. Fernandes, who hails from Lisbon, Portugal, began her nine-year journey at HBS in 2010 in that same classroom. It is...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
been knocking it out of the park for some time.” Harder, a former student of Moss’s, puts it this way: “I felt like Washington was a house on fire, and too many arsonists were being elected.” Representative Josh Harder (MBA/MPP 2014),...
View Details
Keywords:
Deb Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in other areas. But we didn’t have a course that would help students understand consumers and the financial service firms that serve them, including traditional banks, insurance companies, credit card issuers, and brokers, as well as a...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
the Salas brothers are working to help finance entrepreneurs very much like their mother. Founded in 2014 and with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Camino got its start while Kenny and Sean were still students at HBS. In addition...
View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online pied piper for the learning dispossessed. With...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
grateful student fans, Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the good times last? Illustration...
View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
there is little education by family members or in schools about personal finance. Most students have no sense of personal financial control, nor have they worked to have a financial safety net. Graduate View Details
Keywords:
Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
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,...
View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
Harvard naturalist, and how he had his student study a fish. The story is found here. The moral is to keep looking at every aspect of something till you get it all, and then keep on looking, for there’s always more to discover. It’s a...
View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
that dream and how you want to go and impact the world, that you go and push to the side initially when you’re coming out of school. Maybe you have student debt or maybe finally after promising the spouse...
View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
second afternoon, participants in the Women Leading Business program were beginning to develop a genuine rapport that was reflected in the camaraderie they shared with some one hundred current women MBA students who joined them for a...
View Details
Keywords:
Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
compromises. But it can happen.” In a unanimous decision made shortly after her concluding remarks, the school board appointed Cognetti to its vacant seat. Headlines the next day put Cognetti’s Harvard MBA front and center—a fact she embraces for the example it offers...
View Details