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- 28 Nov 2022
- News
Here’s the Latest on the FTX Collapse
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Harvard Business School’s Former Dean Joins Kushner’s Thrive Capital
- 09 Feb 2013
- News
Following a Herd of Bulls on Apple
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Business on Wall Street Faces Scrutiny
- 19 Dec 2018
- News
When Your Moon Shots Don’t Take Off
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
worked on the trading floor of a brokerage firm.” Wide open: “After college I worked at Salomon Brothers. I learned about M&As, LBOs, and venture capital, and figured out venture was best for me; there weren’t so many preconceptions...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Turning Point: Listen to the Music
wasn’t a good fit. I switched to business because it seemed like easy grades, to be honest, and put myself through school by working at a small brokerage firm. After graduating I went to the local Merrill Lynch office and interviewed for...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
decade, Jakurski and a colleague decided to strike out on their own to form a brokerage firm. "We started with an investment of about $600,000," he says of the origins of Banco Pactual. "Money markets were in their infancy here, so there...
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Susan Young
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
when it comes to business. After ninth grade, I worked on the floor of a brokerage firm in the trading area. Then I worked for Dr. BJ Diener (HRPBA 1963/MBA 1964/DBA 1974), who was one of the first four women to get her PhD from HBS, and...
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first job;
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Oil and Gas Extraction;
Mining;
Retail Trade
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
After 29 years with the family business, 55-year-old Abigail Johnson (MBA 1988) has been making a series of bold moves since assuming the role of chairman of Fidelity Investments in December 2016, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The privately held mutual...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Flying High
According to the Boston Globe (December 12, 2002), Ellyn McColgan (MBA ’83) “is not a household name in mutual funds. But that’s about to change.” Recently appointed president of Fidelity Brokerage Co., McColgan oversees $700 billion of...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
Development in Thailand during the height of the U.S. Vietnam War buildup. He then started a brokerage house in Bangkok before eventually returning to New York and opening his nostalgia-laced startup. "I'm not going to build an Edsel...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
consumer. In all these sectors of the industry, Tufano and the others agree, an increasingly important force is entering into the mix: the Internet. The Electronic Brokerage Still riding a "second burst" during the extended 1980s -1990s...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
dissatisfied customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Qiao Ma (MBA 2010)
My dad was an engineering professor, but his true passion was the stock market. When I was six or seven years old, he brought me to a local brokerage office in Guangzhou. It was the early 1990s and the room was packed with men, all smoking. People cheered when the live...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
endow a chair at the School. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked for a number of years at Unibanco, Brazil's third largest bank, including service as executive director. In 1983, he and three partners founded Pactual, a Rio View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
to the Depression-era law that separated commercial and investment banking. Banks with FDIC-insured deposits could still perform investment banking and brokerage activities on behalf of clients — operations that commercial banks were...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Like many emerging-market countries, Brazil can seem about as appealing to potential investors as a midnight swim up the Amazon. But in 1983, André Jakurski and three partners decided to take the plunge anyway. With $500,000 in equity capital, they founded Pactual, a...
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Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
investment in people have remained steadfast as he has grown the company into a leading global financial services firm. In the 1970s, RJF expanded into brokerage offices across the country, working with affiliates that acted as...
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Susan Young