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- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Working for a double bottom line
Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) uses her experience as a writer, editor, hedge fund manager, and banker to help women and girls who face challenges throughout the world. Together with her husband, she wrote Half... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Serving with Purpose and Pride
innovation and new initiatives. With great enthusiasm we begin our term as chairs of the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. It is a privilege to serve in this capacity—supporting The Harvard Business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Honoring a Visionary Thinker Who Took Time for Students
needed to persuade his 50th Reunion classmates to contribute to a new fellowship. The selling point, he says, was that the fund will be named for the late HBS professor and Harvard Business Review editor Ted Levitt. “Ted was a giant in... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
KHAN: Using software and videos to create an education revolution. Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle Salman Khan (MBA ’03) was working at a hedge fund in 2004 when he began tutoring his young cousin in... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers deposits from owning, investing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
discuss the spread of mutual funds to Asia, Europe, and Latin America; compare them with other investment vehicles like hedge funds; and show how to sort mutual View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
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HBS alumnus Philip Rettger on partnering with the Harvard endowment
Philip Rettger (MBA 1985) has focused his career on renewable and sustainable energy. "While none of us knows what the future will offer for investment returns, I am pleased that the charitable remainder trust that I established several... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Groysberg. "The stipend, the budget, the library - there are faculty at other schools who don't get the same level of assistance."That assistance means students can take on the topics that interest them most without worrying about View Details
- 20 Jun 2013
- News
Looking Ahead, Giving Back
graduate was willing to match our gift really helped to inspire people." Kempner, who works at Taconic Capital, a hedge fund in New York, is excited to continue to serve as an HBS volunteer. He is now Class... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
Europe are crippling startups that are increasingly looking outside the EU for both funding and a safe haven to launch their businesses. “The United States is a country where you are able to transform knowledge into products, and I think... View Details
- 11 Mar 2017
- News
Building from Buffett's Advice
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
values, Spier begins his redemption by starting the Aquamarine Fund and by channeling none other than the king of value investing. When Spier saw Warren Buffett speak at HBS, he wasn’t much impressed. That... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
By its launch at the end of April, The Harvard Business School Campaign had achieved $600 million toward its $1 billion goal. This early success was made possible by the thousands of alumni and friends who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
by venture capital in the past decades, there were many failures. But collectively, the companies that did succeed represent a significant fraction of the private-sector jobs in the United States today. The key is to use everything we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
more Americans were willing to borrow. Chimerica, in other words, was the underlying cause of the surge in bank lending, bond issuance, and new derivative contracts that “Planet Finance” witnessed after 2000. It was the underlying cause... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
pension fund administration group he would get to know many different kinds of investment outfits. In 1975, he joined one of these companies, New YorkÐbased Century Capital... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
four investment funds with approximately $750 million of capital for private equity investments. Most important thing learned at HBS: “About my own limitations. I'm not a very analytical person, so I got a... View Details