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- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
David Berman (MBA 1991) is a successful hedge fund manager and a regular commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, who has been deemed “the king of the retail jungle” by Fortune. But none of this, he says, would have been possible without the game of chess. The founder of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all of us.” Hartley came to painting a little over a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
Times. Co-authored with Robert McLean—a director emeritus of McKinsey & Company and the former dean of the Australian Graduate School of Management—the book outlines the attitudes and actions leaders need to employ in an era of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
becoming irrelevant. It explores seven profound “mind leaps” leaders need to make now to transform at the speed of disruption. With illuminating case studies and hard-earned personal wisdom, Dennis helps you create important strategic and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A More Accommodating Approach
Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
financial crises leave an indelible mark on our culture. As William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Much like the victims of crime or veterans of combat, we are imprinted with the strains of crisis that will... View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. Even so, they were... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like pricing derivatives and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Like-Minded
working for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On these evenings, they kicked around the notion that something... View Details
- 25 May 2023
- News
Brazil’s Nubank Turns 10
Guilherme Lago (MBA 2005) Guilherme Lago (MBA 2005) Ten years after its founding, the Brazilian digital banking startup Nubank recorded all-time record revenues ($1.6 billion) in the first quarter of 2023—doubling its performance over last year, according to The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
capital providers and nonprofit loan funds, seek to expand economic opportunity in low-income communities by providing access to financial products and services. As Michael Pokorny, a senior director at the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
Sustainable Production (led by professors Willy Shih and Michael Toffel) Ghana: Doing Business Across Africa (led by Senior Lecturer Hakeem Belo-Osagie) Israel: Startups and Venture Capital (led by professors Paul Gompers and Richard... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
progressed against the background of a changing financial landscape, Fisher and his colleagues persuaded Morgan Stanley's senior partners that the wholesale culture of the major "bulge bracket" investment banks View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
of our Executive Education programs is to help fulfill the need for well-trained business leaders at all levels of organizations worldwide, and we are interested in increasing our focus in Latin America," said Dean Nitin Nohria. "This... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
metaverse, and quantum-edge computing are just a few examples. In this environment, leaders must understand how to use data for decision-making (and use judgment for data); how to use design-thinking approaches to address unmet needs for... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
raised in the case are how to raise the necessary capital and structure the deal and whether or not to buy the company. This case inspired me to think about small business and manufacturing in a more positive way. It confirmed that I no... View Details