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- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high school in Massachusetts, that revelation came from an eight-year-old boy named Robert. As an undergraduate at Georgetown,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than thirty years. In 1971, Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
national parks. There’s nothing like it. We explore nature, sleep in cramped quarters, make a mess, and have an amazing time.” “The work we do at JPMorgan Chase helps people invest for important life events, such as retirement or a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
orientation that manifests itself in investing, in business decision-making, and in our politics. Educational and philanthropic endowments, for example, with institutional time horizons that necessarily span centuries, invest their funds... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
think all New Yorkers felt personal outrage that this had happened and a commitment to seeing the city rebuild." "To see that kind of trauma inflicted on my city made me angry," declares Paige Sutherland (MBA '85), a former investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
core business to ensure that essential complements get off the ground. As desktop videoconferencing takes off, so, too, will demand for Intel's newest chip, the Pentium Pro. That is why the company has invested more than $100 million in... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
read in this special Bulletin issue, our alumni have founded or helped to transform many important companies over the years. They have shaped the evolution of industries as diverse as cable television, microcomputer software, publishing, specialty retailing, View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
around value pricing versus current competitor pricing models. Use some of your large beta customers to tell your story. Those customers willing to invest time in a beta often want to be seen as innovative and can be powerful from a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event that the Big Three contributed to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
Kids may grow up wanting to be entrepreneurs, but “no kid dreams of growing up to be a venture capitalist,” says Jeffrey Bussgang (MBA ’95). Thankfully, Bussgang has managed to do both and write about it, too. His recent book, Mastering the VC Game (Portfolio), is the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
management challenges that affect the lives of billions of people.” Dean Srikant Datar remembered him this way: “Ratan Tata’s impact will be felt for decades to come. There is no better example of business in service of society than the Tata Group, which View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
full-time portfolio career. “Like with an investment portfolio, you have to think about the composition of that portfolio. What’s the synergy between that portfolio and how does it all come together?” he says. “Then it is all about... View Details