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- 24 Apr 2014
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Driving the family business onto a global stage
Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, creating jobs for thousands. Not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions
were misdirected illusions of ways to become rich. It would take Gallatin well over a decade to realize that his gifts lay not in dealing with land and agriculture, but rather in managing money and other View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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In Pursuit of Academia
financial opportunity cost, left me with no doubt about my commitment to a career in academia,” she recalls. Drawing on her insights from the MBA classroom, Fernandes conducted doctoral research examining the impact of changes in status... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Lee. After two years working as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Safin was given the option to become an assistant to the CFO or an associate in investment banking in Moscow. "I was... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
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A Binary Formula
horizons, risks, and norms. New management skills, new organizational forms, new institutional and financial arrangements, and a new breed of leadership are all essential.” Adds Pisano, whose case “The... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
global management from the general manager's perspective. Hightower credits his career in the Army, where he attained the rank of major at age 27, with teaching him the nuances of leadership. "As MBAs, we tend to become quite enamored... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
professors were really fantastic,” she says. “What they are doing for a generation of students is going to have substantial impact on how financial management practitioners approach theory.” Left to Right:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
opportunities for executives to reap enormous personal gains from gaming accounting and SEC rules. If Enron-type breakdowns are to be avoided in the future, corporate boards need to keep in mind seven propositions that collectively address the potentially perverse... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
decades in the investment world, service on nonprofit boards and think tanks, and management of the financial turnaround of both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, not to mention a... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
take advantage of your network, and remember the lessons you learned, especially in the first few days of class. JH: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966) devoted the first several decades of his career to investment management, founding Batterymarch View Details
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
Bussel: Using her business savvy to manage large-scale art installations. View Bussel's online gallery Three heads—simple, generic profiles—stand 30 feet high and span 100 feet across the outer wall of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv, the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Understanding the language of business
When the late James F. Rothenberg (AB 1968, MBA 1970) arrived at HBS, the recently graduated Harvard College English major had to learn the intricacies of accounting as well as the language of business. These skills served him well during his 44-year career at Capital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Venture: Time Heals All
Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
number of healthy snacks for the children, and activities kits—comprising games, cards, and drawing materials—to encourage family interactions. Because the North Chicago school community doesn’t have the financial resources found in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
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Harvard’s Alumni Impact
Keywords: Harvard; alumni; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Wall Street: From Managing Money to Saving Souls on the Streets of New York by Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In The Missionary of Wall Street, Auth shares dozens of riveting and often funny stories about ordinary... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna