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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
financial services firm helps small and medium-sized enterprises raise capital and scale their businesses. In the past year NISK itself has grown, and now its team of eight works with 50 clients. Kyarisiima... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
brands (like Tim Tams), so I was looking for an opportunity to work on strategic brand initiatives with a firm that has similarly beloved products. Also, my wife and I enjoy outdoor activities and have heard that Minneapolis is amazing in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
testing a number of hypotheses around how best to build opportunities there,” says Breyer. Looking ahead, HBS professor Josh Lerner predicts that a small number of global firms soon will dominate the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind (Harvard Business Review Press) How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
visiting 100 factories before presciently fixing his sights on the growth potential in auto parts. In the early 1990s, China manufactured only about 600,000 vehicles a year, mostly trucks, and parts makers remained small and regional.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
during a period of intense technological and organizational change through an inspirational leadership style based on a deep commitment to her workforce. Joseph J. O’Donnell (MBA ’71) A prominent philanthropist, Joe O’Donnell worked for several years as an HBS... View Details
- 11 Sep 2009
- News
I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
second grade. A lunchtime “Beyond the Job Bank” session in Spangler Auditorium with Jodi R.R. Smith, president of “etiquette consulting” firm Mannersmith, taught me otherwise. Smith, whose advice has appeared in the Wall Street Journal,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
Through our Entrepreneurs program, we’ve also helped five individuals launch their own small businesses, advised them on their business plans, and helped them land their first clients.” By day, Curiel serves as vice president of... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
group, Connell gained 85 percent ownership of the industrial companies with a leveraged buyout that created the Connell Limited Partnership. Last year, the four firms remaining in the Partnership accounted for revenues of more than $1... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
will also drive them to India because only India can compete with China on both labor costs and domestic-market potential. Foreign firms will demand access to India and force the country to open up. As India does open up, what are its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
individual’s preferences. Regardless of their decision, the patent examiners were 4.4 percent more productive than their work-from-home peers. The future may be entirely remote for some companies, says Choudhury, who is currently writing a case on GitLab, a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said, "Why?" He said, "Because all the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
The book covers key trends and describes how different firms have coped with shifting pressures. It concludes with an assessment of where equity research is headed in emerging markets and the industry's future challenges. Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Ecosystem” details the city’s evolution as a growing hub for startup activity. “Chicago has been called the most American of American cities,” Emanuel commented. “It’s a very big city but a small town.” He cited its diverse economy (no... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
billion market, I would go vertical for the next year or two. I would go deep and learn along the way to master the business fundamentals and identify parallel/complementary markets you can expand into. This will prepare the firm to go... View Details