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HBS - Key Metrics

Reserves 227 211 174 129 Endowment 5,086 5,265 4,092 3,985 Total Assets $6,603 $6,755 $5,558 $5,420 MBA 2022 2021 2020 2019 Incoming Class Applications 8,264 9,773 9,304 9,228 Percent Admitted 15% 13% 13% 12% Yield 86% 87% 85% 89% Gender:... View Details

06 Aug 2021
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Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

Apple. Amelio had attempted to negotiate a similar arrangement with Gates and had failed. Second, Steve was able to endow the work of others with meaning as no one else at Apple could. Fred Anderson, who was hired as chief financial... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2019
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Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) and Denise Dupré are deeply committed to the creation of innovative programs for students who are driven to create, lead, and grow companies with the potential to change the world. The couple recently... View Details

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Cait Haught

endowments and foundations. "I loved the job," Cait says. "I learned something new every day: capital markets, how to talk to clients, how to lead teams. They give you a lot of autonomy and responsibility; I managed a team... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

Morgan Stanley fit in the universe - and he could syndicate anything. Gordon Richardson, former governor of the Bank of England, remains a man of impeccable manners and morals and is endowed with a superb mind. At its core, the investment... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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John H. McArthur | About

effort and restructured the School’s publishing arm to expand the reach and impact of the School and its thought leadership throughout the world. He launched “Leadership and Learning,” a comprehensive MBA curriculum review. During McArthur’s 15 years as dean, View Details

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Wilder House | About

making of me.” In return, Wilder created a path to the School for future generations of young Canadians by endowing the William P. Wilder (MBA 1950) Fellowship and by helping to spearhead the HBS Canadian Initiative, which provides... View Details

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Richard P. Melnick | About

Harvard Business Publishing entity. Rick works directly with the HBS Dean on strategic financial planning including multi-year financial planning, capital budgeting and reserve and endowment forecasting. He manages a staff of 15 including... View Details

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

University's finances but gave him a place on Harvard's two governing boards. Dividing his time between McKinsey and Massachusetts Hall, Daniel saw the University's endowment climb from some $4 billion to $22 billion as chairman of the... View Details

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

01 Oct 2021
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Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

of 20 years and the mother of their six children, endowed a fellowship in Whitney’s honor on the occasion of what would have been his 15th HBS Reunion. “The School meant so much to Whitney,” says Brittanie, noting he had dreamed of... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

intends to develop a fundraising program she began in Startup Boot Camp last January. "My big hairy audacious goal is a self-sustaining endowment fund to employ teachers in slums and rural areas." Looking ahead, Peggy knows that... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Marriage and Fertility" with Michela Carlana. Marco E. Tabellini : Recipient of a grant from the UPS Endowment Fund at Stanford University for “Immigrant Group Size and Immigrant Assimilation” (with Vasiliky Fouka and Kai Gehring) in... View Details

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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Scholarly Exchange for 1993–2000. William C. Kirby : Received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for 1994–1999. Krishna G. Palepu : Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements (South-Western College Publishing,... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

in relation to macroeconomic and financial forces. He will also discuss the implications for investing of the low interest rate environment and how sophisticated institutional investors such as endowments have been reshaping their... View Details

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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

training we had given ourselves in the field of polarized light had endowed us with a competence we had not sought and did not know we had," Land wrote. "It was as if all that we had done in learning to make polarizers . . . had been a... View Details

08 Sep 2008
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The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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Harvard Business School

consumers. At HBS, he helped found and was the first chairman of the African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA). In 1996, the HBSAAA launched a fundraising campaign to endow a professorship in his name. Frederick "Fred" Wilkinson Jr.... View Details

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