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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
downsizing at the Scott Paper Company under "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap and the merger of Chase Manhattan Bank with Chemical Bank. Based on interviews with CEOs, managers, investors, bankers, management consultants, and attorneys, the cases look... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Goodbye and Hello to MBAs
released these statistical profiles of the two classes. Class of 1998 Placement Employment by Industry* Consulting: 30% Investment Banking (including Sales & Trading): 15% High Tech & Telecommunications: 13%... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home
As a former investment banking analyst and private equity associate, Prita Kumar (MBA 2014) knows what it means to be busy—so busy, in fact, that it was nearly impossible to incorporate the boutique fitness... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Banks as Multinationals edited by Geoffrey Jones (Routledge) This comparative, international study, edited by Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, looks at the origins and business strategies of multinational... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
At the Cedars-Sinai Hospital complex in Los Angeles, patients, visitors, doctors, nurses, and delivery people stream up and down the hallways on a busy summer afternoon. The bank of phones in the lobby is fully occupied. On one of them,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
photo by Brandon Thibodeaux Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and then as director of View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
the numbers. Inclusiveness is about making the numbers count and effecting a cultural change. Your earlier research resulted in a surprising finding about the difference between male and female star performers. In a nine-year study of 1,000 star performers in the View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
of the election, Mawilmada had left the Asian Development Bank and was operating an independent development consultancy in Colombo. In addition, he and classmate Hiran Embuldeniya had started York Street Partners, the country’s first... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and commercial View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
experience was exactly what she needed. “I was drinking from the fire hose,” she says. “At MIT, I learned how to problem solve. At HBS, I got a framework that allowed me to see the bigger picture.” The School also facilitated her career transition—from technology to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
software bus and plug applications into that." As simple as it sounds, this insight had a dramatic impact on the financial services institutions that were among Ranadivé's first customers. (TIBCO is an acronym for The Information Bus Company.)In 1985, View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, and other... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
lives of their employees, customers, and communities. Leaders who want to actualize purpose within their organizations, he says, should be ready to take a big leap. In the following excerpt, Gulati argues that a deep-purpose leader has to be willing to View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
Ties on Investment Bank Affiliation and IPO Success." In research conducted with Ranjay Gulati of Northwestern's Kellogg School, Higgins found that "what matters most when executives are trying to raise... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown... View Details
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley where she is responsible for increasing revenue generation and client connectivity and penetration across the Wealth Management, Investment View Details