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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel appointed to monitor the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
the Harvard University endowment. HMC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the University, is under new leadership and in the middle of a major reorganization designed to improve returns across all asset classes. View Details
- 17 Apr 2020
- News
Decreasing the Wealth Gap
the way the system is working in a way to increase the size of the pie and divide it well,” he told NPR’s Noel King. While he did share his fear that the economic aftereffects of the pandemic could increase social unrest, Dalio offers a glimmer of optimism as well: “We... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
colleagues work pro bono with 501c3 “community quarterback” organizations in cities such as Omaha, Rochester, Orlando, and Philadelphia, to bring together components necessary for comprehensive revitalization. Each neighborhood’s context and View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
significant sponsorships. According to Nagarjuna, this year’s celebration raised more than $85,000 in revenue, from marquee brand sponsors RRE Ventures, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Hanson Bridgett LLP, Asset Management Company, Cooley... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
employs an enviable tactic: "I eat," he laughs. "I'm always nibbling and testing - my favorite is our chocolate-chunk cookie." No Typical Days An excellent set of taste buds is one obvious asset in the food business, but other qualities... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset management activities, Guichard... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
between government, large financial institutions, and community-based organizations to encourage asset building. Located in Boston's inner-city Roxbury neighborhood, the firm, Tufano explains, aims to "build a road between the low-income... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
start exposing people at a much earlier age about asset management and private equity and why it's a good industry so that you can attract more people to the industry. Chitra: But even when you think about senior levels within private... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to allocate significant View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
sharing information on what to expect.” YAM is an asset to companies that want to recruit from the diaspora of African talent that has gone to the US. “Now people reach out to us to recruit,” he says. “Every month we send out a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
service firms with rigid up-or-out promotion policies, Monitor “favors a more flexible approach to assessing an individual’s overall contribution,” says Fuller. The firm also had significantly diversified into principal investing, asset... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
leadership, BlackRock’s Retirement Group, which manages $1.3 trillion in retirement assets for some 35 million Americans, has taken steps to address these issues. In 2020 they held the BlackRock Savings Summit, a virtual retirement... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity, thereby creating new wealth, rather... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
topical appeal. "When asset values are declining as fast as they have been in the newspaper industry," he explains, "you have to make a bet on the future: Do you have a viable business strategy, and if so, is it one of growth, of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
handling international accounts, corporate lending, and managing assets for the First National Bank of Chicago. Quainton found that he was good at listening to clients and helping people solve problems. It was a calling, not for higher... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
Personal Investors taught by Luis Viceira. It shaped the way I manage my own portfolio and helped me understand the ins and outs of different asset classes. What’s the best advice you could give an incoming HBS student? Paul: Appreciate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
a “gift from the government,” but rather an asset with a strong future value that brought neighbors together and gave strength to families where so much had been lost. This gift of the first calf was incredibly significant. A cow, it... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in 1979. Back at HBS, Light focused his research and course... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
financial return and social change on behalf her clients. Following Walden’s acquisition, she founded Boston Common Asset Management, in 2003. By the fall of 2020, Boston Common had $3 billion under management and a mission to be, as... View Details