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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
In the summer when it got really hot, my brother and I would buy cases of water. We grew up in Queens near Linden Boulevard and we would stand on the corner and sell bottles of water to people who stopped at the light. We always had this knack for creating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
approach to philanthropy. When you started with Baupost at age 25, did you already consider yourself a value investor? Yes. After my junior year in college and right after graduating, I worked for Mutual Shares Corporation, which was run... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian investors who View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
cofounding forty years ago of The Carroll School, which specializes in teaching children with language-based learning differences. He’s also active with his class at Harvard College (celebrating its 70th Reunion this year) and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
services jargon is really scary for newer investors to overcome. In the United States, we don’t teach children how to manage their finances in school. So even when people graduate from college or graduate... View Details
Edward A. Fox
Fox was the first employee and president of the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae). Under his guidance, the organization grew to become a $25 billion financial enterprise and the largest provider of loans for college... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
Mencoff: A commitment to meritocracy as a core American value. Photo courtesy Samuel Mencoff “A cross between Walter Wriston and Davy Crockett” is how Sam Mencoff (MBA 1981) and his classmates used to affectionately describe HBS finance... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
don’t lead with their successes. Obviously, when you’re quite young, you’re writing college essays for yourself and you need to tout the amazing things about yourself. This is necessary when you’re younger and don’t really have anyone to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
store in New Jersey; the son accompanied him on buying trips to New York and watched him negotiate for the best merchandise and price. He had even launched his own successful business before arriving at HBS: a birthday cake delivery service that advertised to the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
led him to start his own business selling produce. The next break came after a chance encounter with a clerk at a local library who gave him advice on how to apply for college and get funding. In 1997, Magwegwe completed his undergraduate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
A Bankable Trust
Carla Ann Harris (MBA 1987) is a managing director at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, in charge of the marketing and execution of new-issue equity financing in the technology, media, telecommunications, transportation, industrial, and... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
just a week on the job, floundered for answers, but Upromise, an online college savings vehicle, received funding anyway. The author recommends you shop for VCs like shopping for a car, looking for a style, brand, and model you are... View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Former Professor and Associate Dean Vernon Alden Passes Away
he began the Institute for College and University Administrators, financed by the Carnegie Corp. of New York, which conducted case study seminars for college presidents, deans,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
decided that she didn’t have the right technology skills to make it viable. It was in her second year that she discovered how her finance background could help her show others how to align portfolios with principles. Building on the... View Details
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
market, which had a big impact on many people’s lives. Then the global financial crisis struck when I was in high school. I felt deeply that finance is hugely important to the efficiency and well-being of a society, and I really wanted to... View Details
- Career Coach
Kate Shepherd
investing career at mutual funds and hedge funds in both New York City and Boston focusing on the technology sector. She pivoted to advising undergraduate students interested in finance at Bowdoin College... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the small corners where they are... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
average, in 2000, women working full time received $9,984 less in gross earnings than did men.4 In 2001, median weekly earnings of full-time female college graduates were 72.5 percent that of male college... View Details