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- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
Standard Bank, the largest bank in South Africa with a conservative culture of white Afrikaner managers. The management team had already been through this with another consultant, and they had walked out on her. “So I made a deal with... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
volunteered time, advice, office equipment, and ideas. They have also suggested research topics and provided contacts in the region. How did your previous career prepare you for your current position? Investment banking exposed me to the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
made their mark in the media and entertainment realm — be it publications, television, movies, theater, or the arts. At graduation, investment banking and consulting ranked as top career choices. But over the years, she’s seen her fellow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
of those less fortunate pivots was pretty standard stuff: After a change in leadership, I was unceremoniously fired at the bank where I had been promoted just a few days earlier. After a year of frustration and effort I gave up on the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
"Put aside the consulting firms and investment banks for a while," he exhorted students in the audience. "We need you now!" Charles MacCormack, president and CEO of Save the Children, changed his own career path as a student. In 1962, at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
corporations from using their foreign profits to build facilities in the United States. Business interests are calling for a so-called tax holiday, in which American corporations would be allowed to transfer their foreign profits to their American View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
board chairman role to begin working on a related venture, a mutual bank to support lending to local food and farming businesses.) The changes slashed errors in half and doubled their packing speed. Operations have increased six-fold in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
depended on bank loans instead of equity, creating the illusion that money was in infinite supply. That led Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to make bad investments. I decided we should do something about them immediately." As a... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
Black community as a private-enterprise desert, with devastating consequences.” To prevent this, he gave an overview of how to fill out the PPP loan application, and shared promising data from Seaway National Bank in Chicago, where most... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
block of apartments overlooking the Nile River. She graduated from Cairo University in 2006 with a degree in economics, followed by a master's in environment and development at the London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go work at the World View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
out with Nextel? One person knew a career not to be taken: Jim Stern decided against retail. His rejection letter from J.C. Penney won a Harbus contest and was published in the paper. The future banking mogul did, however, win the stock... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
bank in Hong Kong before graduation. "Since there are so few world-class mathematicians, he wanted me to consider other career choices." First Boston Corporation, 1976-78 Why HBS? "An HBS alum at Jardine Fleming told me I would need an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
a few hundred case studies, a lightbulb lit up. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” says Mikitani, who, at 47, is one of Japan’s youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. In 1997, after considerable success at the Industrial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Well Matched
footballer Michael Owen) and rooting for the Denver Broncos (her mom is a native, she explains). After completing her undergraduate degree at Wharton, Rapaport took on a range of investment banking roles. “I learned that I loved the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
industries — from automotive and semiconductors, to banking and pharmaceuticals. Citing the falling costs of computing and advances in simulation and combinatorial technologies, he urges companies to capitalize on new opportunities for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Green (MBA 1976) and Andrea P. Howe (Wiley) Twilight Reflections: Where the Elderly Find God by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981), helped by Kimi Tomaszek (CreateSpace) Swan Wait by Gwen Keane (PMD 50, 1985) (Keane Writers Publishing LLC) The Best Book On Investment View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Greenspan’s tacit approval, used previously unexploited provisions in the Glass-Steagall and Bank Holding Company acts to push through a merger that ultimately changed the regula-tory environment for the entire U.S. financial services... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg