Filter Results
:
(78)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(342)
- People (2)
- News (78)
- Research (175)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (104)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(342)
- People (2)
- News (78)
- Research (175)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (104)
Sort by
- 01 May 2013
- News
Deborah A. Farrington, MBA 1976
working as a securities analyst for Merrill Lynch in Asia, running a private equity firm, and serving as managing director of a Hong Kong merchant bank. In 1998, she founded StarVest Partners, a New York City–based venture capital firm...
View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
King of his castle
and Renaissance fairs into a successful business that has delighted the thousands who visit his Sherwood Forest Faire near Austin, Texas. Appling's recreation of a late 12th-century village on 23 acres comprises more than a hundred permanent buildings, including View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
of my gear to the porters," says Petzel, who has climbed all of the "Seven Summits"—the tallest mountain on each of Earth's seven continents. He now occupies himself at a more manageable altitude in London, where he works for Goldman Sachs as a managing director in the...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
A Man without a Pause
Between the ages of 30 and 40, James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) lived a life most would find enviable. An Olympic fencer and graduate of both law and business schools (he cofounded a laundry service at HBS), Wolfensohn landed in London during the “Eurodollar revolution” as a...
View Details
- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
from “supplier to shelf.” This means ensuring that the great products our merchants buy are available to customers both in-store and online, inspiring them to shop at Nordstrom every day. What makes this role different and more...
View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
church, or were married to a neighbor’s daughter. But with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the spread of railroads, newly developed transportation systems expanded the range of business dealings beyond hometown connections. More and more, View Details
Keywords:
Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
position in the mergers and acquisitions business. In addition, the firm has had some notable successes in its merchant banking business, having participated in the buyouts of IMAX, Maybelline, and Collins & Aikman, in particular....
View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Robert F. Greenhill, MBA 1962
and acquisitions department in 1972, the first of its kind on Wall Street. He then headed the investment banking division and eventually served as president before accepting the top spot at Smith Barney in 1993. In 1996, Greenhill set out on his own to launch a...
View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
how I look at problems, which has been really helpful to me in my investing career,” says Dean, who cofounded the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners in 2005 after 20 years with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. Avista is currently...
View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
Australian Air Force, was a fencer on the 1956 Australian Olympic team, and practiced law prior to attending HBS. After graduation and work at a Sydney merchant bank, in 1967 he accepted a position in London with J. Henry Schroder Wagg...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
IPA Meets IPO
KOCH: Putting shares of the company in the hands of the people who really believe in its product. Lots of business executives tout the importance of focusing on the customer. But craft brewmeister Jim Koch (MBA 1974), founder and chairman of the Boston Beer Company and...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
merchant services allowing merchants to accept bitcoins. There are already early breakout companies in each of those categories, so now the focus is shifting slightly into building applications on top of the...
View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Minding Families' Business
A twelfth-generation scion of one of the oldest merchant families in Quebec, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA '54) acquired a family business the old-fashioned way-he built it. Today he dedicates himself to quite a different kind of work:...
View Details
Keywords:
Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Penguin Press) Delves Broughton discusses his quest to find the world’s great wizards of sales, among them a Moroccan rug merchant who uses age-old principles to read his customers and Anthony...
View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
had worked so hard for was the very thing that would kill us. That realization led me to the development of NOWaccount, a merchant service that relieves small businesses from the burden of funding and managing trade credit by immediately...
View Details
Keywords:
Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
the Coop, the focus on books is true to the store's original charter. Founded by a group of thrifty Harvard undergrads who felt Cambridge merchants were charging too much for books and firewood, the Coop has over the years provided the...
View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Esquel Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education MIT, 1974 B.S., Mathematics Other Jobs Jardine Fleming, January-June, 1974 Having whizzed through MIT in 3 ½ years, Yang followed her father's advice...
View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas...
View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
stuck, something he doesn’t dodge. No doubt it works to his advantage in his new pursuit. Mr. China retired from ASIMCO in January 2009. Three months later, he launched JFP Holdings, a merchant bank based in Beijing. (Bain Capital...
View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
achievement; use it as a step to greater success). In Peace and War: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986) and Chloë G. Kline (Wiley) This history draws on extensive...
View Details