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- 08 Oct 2020
- News
JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity
more tangible, meaningful way.” The release notes that the firm’s commitment will focus on promoting and expanding affordable housing and homeownership for underserved communities; growing Black- and Latinx-owned businesses; improving financial health and access to... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
You Have to Save to Win
Playing off the popularity of lottery games, HBS professor Peter Tufano has designed a savings program called “Save to Win,” now being tested at eight credit unions in Michigan. To participate, individuals open a one-year certificate of deposit, earning a chance to win... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
beliefs play a central role. I have worked on projects that study beliefs and important economic decisions, in the context of corporate investment in general, and banking and the financial crisis in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
profits. Investment Banking: Addressing the Management Issues by Steven I. Davis (MBA '58) (Palgrave Macmillan) In his eighth book, international banking consultant Davis offers a timely analysis of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
opportunities with environmental benefits. With decades of experience in investment banking with Dillon Read in New York City—but little experience with environmental work—Cody joined the World View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Decades in investment banking and a lifelong love of the outdoors set Pat Coady (MBA 1966) on the path toward conservation financing. What was a small sector in the early 1990s, when he led the US delegation... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of investment services that were once reserved for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
strategy. And the export of U.S. venture investment dollars is going to be a big, important change in the business over the years ahead.” Hardymon points to Silicon Valley Bank’s recent investment scouting... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
©Rick Friedman As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
Simmons “raising a ruckus in the oil patch,” said Barron’s (November 29, 2004). Simmons is chairman of Simmons & Co. International, a Houston investment bank active in the energy sector. As part of a small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
investment bank in the world. Ellis, a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for over thirty years, explains how it rose to leadership in the United States and abroad, made many partners great fortunes, and... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
(Photograph by Stephen Voss) World Bank VP and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has a clear sense of why she likes her job: “You bring very sophisticated finance tools to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.” Originally from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947)—business leader, community collaborator, prominent philanthropist, education visionary—died February 7 at age 92. During a lauded career, Whitehead guided Goldman Sachs to the forefront of investment banking;... View Details
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
December 2016, reached almost $20,000 in December 2017, and retreated to as low as $3,200 in December 2018.) So we called in an expert: Dianna Raedle (MBA 1993), CEO, president, and founder of Deer Isle Group, an investment View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
“If I had been leaving Harvard in 2010, this would be the area I would want to be going into.” — Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69), a founder of the European venture capital industry, referring to his latest venture, Social Finance, a social View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
I’m the CEO of Invest Macedonia, the primary institution in the country responsible for attracting foreign investments. The prime minister asked me to take the job, and I report directly to him. It’s the highest nonpolitical position in... View Details