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Catherine Neale

help me get skills useful in the public sector." Looking ahead This summer, Catherine will work with the Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco. Once she fulfills her MBA, "I want to go into the View Details

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Family Offices and Family Trusts

dropdown, and choose "Family Office - Multi" or "Family Office - Single" under Institutional Private Wealth. Capital IQ Mouse over the "Screening" tab Select "Companies" from the... View Details

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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

founded in 2011. The organization’s mission is make visible the scalable growth entrepreneurs of the emerging world, creating the largest information system and network of growth entrepreneurs. Expanding the world’s entrepreneurial economy, AllWorld systematically... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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A model of service

private schools, enabling students to volunteer on a regular basis. "Students come away from the experience realizing that we are all alike, but sometimes bad things happen to people and they are forced to live off of food stamps or View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Dreaming big for Africa’s future

Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the only pan-African firm of its... View Details

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Ralph Johnson

impetus for going to business school. What are some of the most important aspects of your HBS experience? My internship, definitely, because it enabled me to pursue two other passions: politics and education. Through the Mayor’s Office... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

23 Aug 2011
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New Kid in School

Ellison: Teaching is "in my DNA." Courtesy Ed Ellison After graduating from HBS and spending several years at Salomon Brothers and CS First Boston, Ed Ellison (MBA ’91) left Wall Street to go into education because “teaching and coaching... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside the Bestseller List with Charles Duhigg

Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) (photo via LinkedIn) It was building spreadsheets as an HBS intern at a private equity firm that convinced Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) that his future was in... View Details

03 Apr 2014
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Cross-Class Connection

classes,” says Jones, a managing director and head of Global Private Equity at Morgan Stanley. “There’s a misperception that Harvard doesn’t need our giving. There are many worthy philanthropies but HBS stands out because of its ability... View Details

18 Jul 2019
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The Pursuit of Impact

philanthropic efforts. “Bloomberg the company has been in existence for 35 years. It is a private company. We give most of the company and all of my share of the earnings to the foundation. It is a real big recruiting tool when we say,... View Details

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

they should open target data and compete on solutions—compounds and molecules addressing the targets. I agree. If we're going to get the breakthrough products we want at a development cost we can afford, we have to figure out the best... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

17 Feb 2011
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Field Report: Rwanda

Karisimbi Partners, a three-person private consulting group that works with small- to mid-sized enterprises. “The idea behind Karisimbi’s model is that sustained economic growth in Rwanda requires private... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2018
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Turning Point: Crossover

work in real estate investment to make coaching a full-time commitment; and I wanted to do it in my hometown of San Francisco, simply because I wanted to be closer to my parents and my brother and sister. Now I serve as the full-time head coach for boys’ basketball at... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Living Social

I think of social enterprise broadly: applying business principles to solve social problems, across the public, nonprofit, and private sectors. People still frame “entrepreneurs” and “social entrepreneurs” as two distinct groups, but more... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Nairobi Love: Heading Home

questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector mind – questions of leverage,... View Details

01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India

transparently of value, so nobody’s going to oppose it. Are China and India capable of creating domestic firms that can compete successfully on an international scale? There already are at least 20 companies in the two countries that I... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist

can reform them to where they aren’t even a government program anymore. So your goal is to go beyond President Bush’s proposal to partially privatize Social Security? Well, everyone would have an option. If... View Details

Keywords: Government

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

lending encouragement to his colleague, and some friendly pressure to get his application in. From HBS, Tingle was looking to gain skills and experience he could take back with him to investing, either going back to View Details

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Venture capital firms: create a list

select Fund Manager. Under Asset Class, select Private Equity. Under Strategy, select Venture Capital. (Or click to expand to select more specific types of venture capital). Select any geographies under Location. Click... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Post-Grad Ponderings

We tracked down a handful of 2014 graduates to get a quick snapshot of where they’re going, what they’re doing, how they kept going through countless hours of case preparation, and who was in their cheering sections as they walked across... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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