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- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging companies to be leaders on issues from... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
1998, was appointed to the HBS faculty in 1972. He taught in the MBA, AMP, and OPM programs, and continues to teach in executive programs at HBS and overseas. His current research focuses on Islamic banking and investment practices, the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
John B. Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977), CEO of Hess Corporation and chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, is working to ensure the School continues to educate the leaders who will help solve the world’s most pressing and complex challenges. “I believe that an View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Take Time to Serve Others
Rena Clark (MBA 1990) found success by following her heart. A managing partner at Laurel Oak Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in the lower-middle industrial market, Clark forged a nonlinear career path that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Lewis and Primo Receive Recognition for Achievements
received the groups’ Professional Achievement Award, built Essence magazine into the leading lifestyle publication for African-American women. Primo’s real-estate investment and development firm has over $4 billion under management and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
send their children to private schools, as well as providing enrichment activities such as music lessons or summer camps. As parents, they have more time to spend with their children, particularly when they are very young, and in the... 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 classes she cherished into her... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
slowdown of wireless technology, and the increasingly bright outlook for venture capital and private equity. Global private equity funding has been on the order of $300 billion since the beginning of 2000, with over 60 percent of that View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
just kind of look at all this,” says Mawilmada. “I like to imagine what it might be when I’m an old man.” His tone is a bit dreamy, but there’s an underlying current of urgency as well. As head of investments for Sri Lanka’s Western... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
Simmons “raising a ruckus in the oil patch,” said Barron’s (November 29, 2004). Simmons is chairman of Simmons & Co. International, a Houston investment bank active in the energy sector. As part of a small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
what guidelines might you suggest? —Norm Boone (MBA 1977) DITKOFF: At Bridgespan, we define impact investing as “investing capital to generate social impact in a way that also provides monetary returns.” As you can see, a broad spectrum... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Nelson Mandela’s Right-Hand Man
In addition to conducting research, the HBS Leadership Initiative engages in other activities as well. Last November, for example, along with the HBS Africa Business Club, it served as the host for an event featuring African National... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
The final in a series of profiles of the twelve new members of the HBSAA Board of Directors. Since 1994, New York native Thomas G. Mendell (MBA '74) has been a partner in the principal investments area at The Beacon Group, LLC, in New... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management Unit and Chris Darwall, executive director of the HBS California Research Center, have led the tremendous growth of entrepreneurial studies and activities at the School. We were delighted when... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
help you take active steps toward achieving your dream life. Former Wall Street investor, adviser, and author Tiffany Kent infuses specific investment advice with her personal story to show you how to take... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
HBS team that found that overseas investment by American companies benefited the U.S. economy by increasing exports and creating higher-paying jobs in this country. His testimony on Capitol Hill helped defeat bills aimed at restricting... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
Samuel Hayes and Hugo Uyterhoeven, two longtime HBS faculty members, retired in June. Summaries of their distinguished careers follow. Samuel L. Hayes, III, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, joined the HBS faculty in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
total Internet e-commerce activity will range from $5 billion to $8 billion by 2003. The purpose of Leonel Azuela's Quaxar e-consulting service is to bring comprehensive Internet and interactive solutions to Latin American and U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; 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