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- 29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
(international reserve assets that supplement a country’s official reserves); and negotiating agreements to fund some of flagship projects laid out in the 2019–2023 Priority Action Plan, a development model that supports growth through... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
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 birthday-celebration evenings,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
renewables (wind and solar), nuclear power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins (“fake meat”). Adaptation technologies, like flood defense and asset protection, also offer potential investment opportunities.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Book Review: Mix Master by Sean Silverthorne In contemporary culture, a remix is the bringing together of assets in new ways—a song that combines recording samples from Otis Redding or Brenda Lee, say, placed in a new Kanye West wrapper.... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
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How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
learning." Adds Kosnik, "Sharing the learning process with these students reminds me there's no work I'd rather do more." Real Property Asset Management William Poorvu, the School's MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
right to buy into privately held firms was limited to high-net-worth individuals or other businesses. Federal regulators have now opened up a world between the two categories, creating a new asset class in which “non-accredited investors”... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
says, it will create a new asset class for socially minded investors, providing them with a reliable ROI that will advance the investing effort. He also believes that changing from a charity-based model of giving has a huge impact on the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
the things that sets the firm apart from its competitors is its investment in the service sector. “Human assets have different management requirements,” Hellman notes, adding, “We give a large part of the action to the people who run the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
equity firm GP Investimentos, which Sicupira led for eight years. After a decade of investing and building assets in the telecom, retail, consumer goods, and railroad industries, the trio sold the partnership to their younger partners.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
cheese, he says. To increase transparency, the PensionBee website offers planning tools and primers to explain, in jargon-free detail, taxes and withdrawals and anything else you might be too embarrassed to ask about. The site has 300,000 registered users and around £1... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
Consulting Group. “We are also providing support to people transitioning to the continent by introducing them to others who made the move and by sharing information on what to expect.” YAM has also proven to be an asset for companies that... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
philanthropy and financial holdings, as well as your personal philanthropic and investing priorities. Practically speaking, if your philanthropic assets are in a DAF, your investment options will be limited to those that the sponsoring... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
Emeritus André Perold, who taught an investment management class and with whom Callaghan did research. Callaghan's subsequent career included portfolio management at Equitable Capital and hedge fund Odyssey Partners; small capitalization equity management positions at... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
native land to complete his military service. He then worked his way through a series of rapid advancements in the banking world. In 1985, he took the helm of Yapi Kredi Bank, where he turned a deficit into a $60 million profit in two years. Two years later, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
intelligence firm he started in the early 1970s was just a decade later digging up assets hidden by powerful individuals, including Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein. Kroll’s work even... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President Obama proposed $100 million in his... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture capital firm. “We... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
help communities be both resilient and vibrant so that they can be sustained in the future. “And that's everything from physical asset management to financial accounting to building licensing tools, for economic development—really the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
his business background may also be a valuable asset in what he sees as the "tough times ahead" for health-care management. "Insurance companies used to write a check for just about anything a physician wanted to do, but today medicine is... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick