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- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
Evans runs the operation according to the rigors of an investment fund. And that's where her HBS education really comes in. "It was the training in how to think about your approach to opportunities," Evans says, recalling a business View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Camille Tang Yeh (MBA 1980) is the executive director of the School's new Asia-Pacific Research Office in Hong Kong. A native of Hong Kong, Yeh has almost twenty years of experience in investment banking, primarily in Asia. What are some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
the long term. Faculty Books Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors that Drive Effective Selling by Frank V. Cespedes (Harvard Business Review Press) Although US companies invest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
pianist. Meeting with colleagues at Baupost. Enjoying a Red Sox game with his wife, Beth. For 30 years, Seth Klarman has exercised an investment strategy of evaluating businesses based on their worth and of... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Self-published The Speculator’s Mosaic is a speculative investment book that details the hard-earned wisdom accumulated during five decades of speculation and portfolio management. Culled from a lifetime of successes—and failures—the book... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
the School, I think I might have failed at Kohl's. I learned how to devise and implement a strategy and, most important, about the importance of working well with people. What was your strategy in running... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
led the creation of Tata Hall, Chao Hall, and Klarman Hall. In an increasingly online world, why invest so much in the physical campus? When our campus was built, George F. Baker, our benefactor, said: “This school will not be judged by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
BIG BETS: Kao proposes investment in research and education. Robert Gumpert/NB Pictures As innovation guru and former HBS faculty member John Kao (MBA ’82) sees it, the United States is already losing on the great economic battleground of... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
outstanding performance this year. One fan watching with particular interest was Ken Baumgartner (MBA ’02), investment director at Wellington Management in Boston. He along with Gord Kluzak (MBA ’98) is not only an HBS alum but also a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
famous “Ten Surprises” and “Life’s Lessons” lists, Wien guides readers through the complexities of investment strategy, risk management, and lifelong learning. The book delves into Wien’s early challenges and triumphs, revealing the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987
distills complicated ideas down to their essence, and, as one colleague put it, possesses “a forward-looking vision.” Named a vice president in 1996, Weeks ran the company’s optical communications division and invested heavily in the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
focused on revenues was foreign to many of the people he encountered. Halfway through his assignment, he discovered that a GSM license was being tendered for the Afghan market. “With the vision of the Aga Khan and his willingness to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and Organization with View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
medicine—and in Jarzabek’s passion for it, but, he recalls, “there were a couple of parts missing for me.” Jarzabek was mission-driven, had the analytical and strategy skills a startup needs, but he didn’t have the medical experience and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
low- and middle-skill workers, particularly those considered essential during the recent pandemic, and offers companies strategies for reaching them (coauthored by Professor of Management Practice Joseph B. Fuller, who co-leads the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
addition to these initiatives, we are committed to making significant investments in people. One of the greatest traditional strengths of the School is its faculty. We are poised to explore new fields of inquiry that will require our... View Details