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- 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
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Rio de Janeiro, Brazil André R. Jakurski “I do not believe in long-range planning. Most of the important things that have happened in my life were not planned.” Having learned... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these assets being a less-dumb form of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
proceeded when faced with multiple options. Those options — from mergers and acquisitions to leveraged buyouts and asset divestitures to "vulture" investing and tracking stock — are also explored. Gilson reminds readers that the devil is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
Founding Partner, Asset Management Company Download Johnson profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1928 Born, Quincy, Illinois 1950 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University 1962 Launches Draper... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
global alliances and networks, and internationalization. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap (Harvard Business School Press) Each time an employee leaves a firm, an asset most valuable to its future is lost: the know-how that... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Stephen Schwarzman on What It Takes
Blackstone reaching $1 trillion in assets by 2026. “The way I approach life is I only have so much time and so much energy,” Schwarzman told the paper. “I always look for something that has almost limitless possibilities because I know... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sweet Deal
Hostess Brands, the maker of some 30 iconic American bakery products such as Wonder Bread, Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies, declared itself in liquidation and its assets for sale last November. As an adviser to the Teamsters union, Harry... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
that's our most valuable asset . . . the fact that these parents were dropping off their daughters at our place, each with a $20 bill in their hand, God bless them. The trust they've placed in us to provide a clean, safe environment for... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
described in terms meaningful to this market through the company's first direct-to-the-consumer advertising. Production runs were lengthened and inventory simplified. Glass decoration was all but eliminated and, like Ford's Model-T, color was, too. Most important, with... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
A seasoned mentor who can stand behind a novice entrepreneur is a valuable asset for anyone attempting a start-up, but especially for those who are now launching ventures in Asia’s complicated business environment. K.O. Chia believes that... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
first-time investors.” “These stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors.” Meme stocks are reminiscent of past price bubbles in asset markets, Cohen observes. “In the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Fung is also an outstanding ambassador for Hong Kong in his role as chairman of the territory's Trade Development Council. "The transition is going as well as anybody expected," Fung said. "The economic numbers are good, and there is absolutely no evidence of capital... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new growth engine; and taking... 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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on top in the long run. This book... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
for a while, but I was blown away. Just what I need: another must-read magazine in my life. God only knows where I ever found time to hold a job. —Perry Miles (MBA 1972) via alumni.hbs.edu Frozen Assets Re: French revolution Great... View Details
- 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