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- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
replace “power-less and lost” with “hopeful and optimistic.” I want the New York skyline to once more inspire dreams of the possible, not echoes of the past. I want to come home again. — Sharjeel Kashmir (PLDA 4, 2007) works on banking... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
expert in the field brings you the latest research and real-world stories on how to develop your own personal networking strategy to help you achieve the future you want. What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence by Stephen A.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Alumni Relations Gets a New Director
outreach in three ways: continuing to expand lifelong learning programs, such as The Entrepreneur’s Tool Kit and Charting Your Course: Discovering Working Options, aimed specifically at HBS alumni; improving Web-based career services and building a robust, searchable... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
much more connected, pervasive, and easy to use. Greater customization will result, and the consumer will call the shots. "Companies that return power to the consumer will be the ones that thrive," Ballmer said, mentioning online banking... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Suisse Group), Orit Gadiesh (Bain), Bill Foote (USG), John Hess (Amerada Hess), and Allan Moss (Macquarie Bank Limited) among them — who are using what they learned at Soldiers Field to make a real difference. Within days of the 9/11... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author of a 1997 comprehensive case study that looks at the country's recent View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
political and social landscape. Don Gillis, a Flynn senior advisor, chronicles the inspiring journey of a city that dared to challenge the entrenched power brokers―including developers, landlords, and banking industry leaders―through... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
about students' "road trip" stories Plan B: The Brick Bank Issue Focus: The Global Manager They Call Him Mr. China Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home HBS celebrated the opening of its newest classroom in early March—in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at Samsung Electronics. Cookies... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
grown men! I was out of my element and much too scared to talk in class." "I had a sense from the first day that ours was going to be a class in transition," says Mike Feeley, chairman of the Sino-American Development Corporation, who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
invests in programs that merge education with workforce development and help low-income youth prepare for sustainable, productive careers. After starting at HBS in 2011, Anderson interned at Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills Corporation. Located in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels per day. Finding and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
plants in Germany, Holland, and South Africa, "all with very little bank debt," according to Andresen. Its work force expanded from 70 to over 600, and the company enjoyed the highest productivity rate among machinery businesses in... View Details