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Ruzwana Bashir

knew I wanted to work with smart people and learn about how to build a business.” After graduating, Bashir moved to London, joined Goldman Sachs and later the Blackstone Group with the intention of a... View Details

28 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni

has been key for Jonathan O’Grady (MBA 2005) in his job searches after HBS. “In the summer of my first year, I did an internship at Goldman Sachs and I had to be at my desk at 6:00 a.m. When you're in a... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Goldman Sachs International Vice Chairman Bob Hormats has noted, this is the first major conflict since the Revolutionary War that has not been accompanied by higher taxes and lower spending for nonessential... View Details

Keywords: Government

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Financial and Accounting Standards Board, new New York Stock Exchange rulings regarding board composition and other matters, and a Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act (CAARTA) by Congress. A misguided overreaction? Possibly. But... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

percent of high school students have tried them, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and a growing percentage of middle school students are joining the list. In 2012, Goldman Sachs declared... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

managers at Goldman Sachs were reevaluating their position. What price would the IPO reach and how much, if any, of their stake should they sell? What was the return Goldman... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

venture-capital firms. “Having the Endeavor seal of approval carries a lot of weight with investor groups,” Ko explains. In addition, Endeavor has created partnerships with companies like The Boston Consulting Group, Citibank, Ernst & Young, and View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

career plan. “I was supposed to go to Vietnam,” Bloomberg recalled during a recent Bloomberg TV interview. “But at the last minute they wouldn’t take me because I had flat feet. A friend of mine said to `Go to Wall Street.’” Bloomberg received job offers from both... View Details

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

Horizon Wind Energy. “It was a very small business, but we got lucky with land positions and were able to build it to pretty good scale,” notes Skelly, who served as the company’s chief development officer. “When it got too big for the family, they sold it to View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

of management practice Rob Kaplan, a former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs who served recently as acting head of the Harvard Management Company, observed that the financial crisis is symptomatic of another... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

01 Dec 2020
News

Well Matched

over five feet tall, Rapaport was the number-one draft pick of Orlando Magic forward Al-Farouq Aminu, who saw her experience at Jefferies, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as a definite plus in helping chart his... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

comes to protecting our communities and our planet. NLK: So when a Goldman Sachs or a BlackRock says, “We will not invest in companies that don’t get it in terms of environment,” it makes many companies in... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

information to shareholders). FANUC’s CEO, Yoshiharu Inaba, and his board must decide if and how to respond. One the one hand, the firm had been very successful having built leading global market shares in each of its core divisions and profitability that exceeded what... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

space. Similarly, Greg Gioia (MBA 2015) left Goldman Sachs for the chance to get close to the magic that Whitman and Katzenberg might make. He believes that Quibi, where he heads financial planning and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

Eva Lutz, and Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 809-056 In 2001, Allianz Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs acquired a majority stake in Messer Griesheim, a European industrial gas concern held by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark... View Details

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

analysis, political leadership, and management in order to fundamentally shift the strategy, people, and culture on a sustainable basis. After describing the actions needed to move a reluctant Goldman Sachs... View Details