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- 27 Mar 2020
- News
CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
pandemic. During the current crisis, CPD Managing Director Kristen Fitzpatrick (MBA 2003) notes, most larger companies are honoring their internship commitments to first-year students, but many smaller firms and startups either need to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
(ECAs). ECAs offer financial guarantees to multinationals that in effect may reimburse firms for bribes paid or for contracts canceled by host countries because the multinationals paid bribes. As for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
career services, curriculum development, executive education, alumni relations, and publishing,” says David Lampe, the School’s executive director of Marketing and Communications. The survey, developed and administered with the help of the independent View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
affected Avance as well. Happily, Perez notes, the private equity firm is now thriving as Latinx businesses are recovering. Perez cofounded Avance with his HBS classmate Luis A. Zaldivar (MBA 1996), with whom he had worked at Palladium... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Smartphones Get Smarter
occasion to reveal that Doerr’s firm has created a $100 million “iFund” to encourage programmers to develop all manner of software, from games to business, for the iPhone; Kleiner Perkins will back promising new iPhone ideas and the... View Details
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
How Did You Spend Your Summer Vacation?
telecom provider. “I helped redesign the strategy for M-Paisa, the country’s first mobile money mechanism,” Keshavjee told the Harbus. “Given that 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population is unbanked, M-Paisa represented a unique mechanism by which to bring View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
organizational health. Has the recent financial crisis permanently changed Wall Street? There were many fundamental causes and contributors to the crisis, and we all learned or relearned lessons. Some practices will be different forever,... View Details
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- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
I realized this was something I was passionate about and that, up until then, I had been influenced by other people’s expectations.” This insight led to a decades-long interest in global business for Barry, president and CEO of the private equity View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
Jake Cusack (MBA 2012) is cofounder of CrossBoundary, an investment firm that helps companies explore business opportunities in frontier and developing markets. In this interview, he explains how he and his partners focus their efforts on... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
the Charles River. The development of the new complex was made possible in part by a $400 million SEAS endowment established in 2015 by John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
action,” she adds. Of course, many alums will continue to follow the more traditional path of doing well professionally before taking up social entrepreneurship in later life. A generation of economic prosperity has made it possible for an increasing number of View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
have significant “skin in the game” when they securitize these mortgages, probably more than the 5 percent required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Lenders should have to hold significantly more capital to protect against losses from these riskier loans. That should also be the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s intellectual capital related to the pandemic. Research is categorized under six broad areas:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
directly involved in the recent financial meltdown, as well as many firms outside of finance whose governance-related troubles came home to roost in the recession. On behalf of shareholders, boards’ specific... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
the age of 57, Charles Rossotti made a self-described "huge detour" from a 28-year career at American Management Systems, Inc., the Virginia-based computer systems consulting firm he cofounded. He went from helping corporate clients... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining ethical... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
When Glen Meakem (MBA ’91) couldn’t persuade his employer, General Electric, that he was on to a hot idea to revamp corporate purchasing using the Internet, he quit and started his own firm, FreeMarkets, which charted the way for successful business-to-business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
with the Owner/President Management Program, in which he began teaching in the late 1970s, when it was known as the Smaller Company Management Program. As faculty chair, he changed the curriculum after noticing that participants no longer represented just small... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent
United States. Fuller collaborated with labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies—led by CEO Matt Sigelman (MBA 1999)—to identify occupations best suited for the apprenticeship model. One criterion: The occupation must... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell