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Anthony Tan

To most aspiring business leaders, Anthony Tan had enviable career prospects. The scion of one of Malaysia’s wealthiest families, Tan is the son of the CEO of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Bhd, one of Malaysia’s biggest automobile... View Details

07 Nov 2017
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Women and the MBA: 6 Important Aspects of the HBS Program

career in asset management and consulting. She is changing the funding landscape for social/public causes with the pay-for-success model, and seems to have a well-balanced professional and personal life.”... View Details

21 Dec 2021
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Student Conferences, at a Glance

Cash, Jr. Professional Achievement Award: Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983/JD 1984), managing director, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Morgan Stanley This year’s conference — named for one of the School’s first African-American alumni —... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

hard worker, but instead of becoming an entrepreneur himself, he built a long career at "the biggest company around," GTE. After years of working there in sales and marketing, he decided to venture out on his own. His GTE... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

develop a high-level blueprint of the IT systems, decide where to locate and how to lay out floor plans, set up relationships with suppliers, and design a management system and scorecard with which to run the new organization. Oui, La... View Details

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Marcela Sapone

undergrad ever hired by the famed management consulting firm. She spent two years at McKinsey before being transferred to its Paris office. There, she realized she had taken a career misstep and when she... View Details

06 Aug 2020
Blog Post

WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

investors are unaware of the biases that create barriers to actually investing in Black founders. It is no surprise that the rest of the investing world also severely lacks racial diversity. According to Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

founder and co-chair, Carla Harris (MBA 1987), Managing Director and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley, and co-chair Alice Vilma (MBA 2007) Managing Director of the Multicultural Group at Morgan... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

best,” says Dillon, who plans to bring that same focus to her private-equity career in London and future athletic endeavors. — LR Libbie Landles-Dowling Authentic Leadership Landles-Dowling When Libbie Landles-Dowling went to work for... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Frontiers of Management. In 2001 she received the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award, its highest award for scholarly contributions, for her impact on management thought, and in 2002 received... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

01 Jun 2025
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Keeping the Faith

It has been said that the note of a Tibetan singing bowl is the sound of inner peace. That’s not something you might expect to hear in the MBA classroom. But it rings through Hawes Hall at the beginning of each session of The Spiritual Lives of Leaders, a second-year... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

(Clerisy Press) The author’s message: the single unifying and fortifying element across all categories of business is people. By understanding their points of view, needs, and ideals, managers can learn to succeed along with them in a... View Details

10 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

HBCU? I chose to attend Howard University because of the sense of community that I felt upon visiting the campus. I knew the atmosphere at Howard would strengthen my sense of identity and propel me to achieve my career aspirations. At... View Details

04 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Getting Accepted to HBS through the 2+2 Program

look into it because they knew how interested I was in business. Although I studied mechanical engineering, I was also getting a second degree in management science, and I knew that my future career would be... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni Are Integral to HBS

Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa On the final day of Africa Rising, a course about business in Africa taught by Professor Caroline Elkins, Hakeem Belo-Osagie’s (MBA 1980) emotions were running high. “I had that sense of accomplishment when you know... View Details

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

pointed out. Panelist Dean Donovan, managing partner of Bain & Company in South Africa, said the imperatives for African governments are many, and are all intertwined. The key underpinnings include a health policy that deals with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

African-Americans, to help them to manage their money,” she recalls. “These were people like Oprah— people who are on the Forbes list of wealthiest African-Americans. “I got to know some of them, and at the time we did this there were a... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in farmland management and investing in regenerative agriculture.” Pat Coady MBA 1966 | Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure "We’re finally... View Details

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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details

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