Financial Advisers - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

enabled Jakurski and his colleagues to expand into a full range of financial services, including trading and investment banking. In 1991, when the Brazilian stock market opened up to foreign investment, Jakurski invested heavily in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

full courses Acting in Time: Leadership and Management in the Face of Large-Scale Risks is a leadership capstone course designed for students who, over the course of their careers, will lead an organization that faces large-scale risks. Analyzing View Details

Keywords: curriculum

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

Nisa Godrej Illustration by Anita Kunz In the summer of 2007, Mark Kahn (MBA 2006) received an unusual call from Mumbai. A former HBS classmate had a problem. She wanted him to look over strategic and financial documents for a diversified... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

04 Feb 2008
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After Twenty Years, Rankings Remain Controversial

marketplace hit that several other publications launched their own over the next several years, including Forbes, the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report, and the Wall Street Journal. For better or worse, the rankings came to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

a financial analyst with IBM's Latin American division for three years, planning all along to go back to school after gaining some work experience. "Harvard expects you to do research that has certain managerial implications. That was... View Details

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

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

opportunities to educate and connect our alumni as lifelong learners. Additionally, having served most recently as the Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Financial Planning, Foley worked closely with CFO Richard P. Melnick in View Details

22 Jul 2021
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Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women

competition or another investing network. We took inspiration from our club’s mentorship program and came up with a shorter version, where we could advise startup founders.” Pundrik, Mansukhani, and Ventura lead the club’s New Ventures... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Nov 2012
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Remembering His Roots

demonstrate to helping the farmworking community and themselves, the students receive ‘investments’ from a variety of sources, including the RFDF and individuals. More than 200 students are participating in the Exchange, and about 50 investors are actively donating... View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

01 Apr 1999
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A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

Lawrence S. Kramer (MBA '74), who spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner, was himself in the news last January. Kramer's financial information... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

believes, the competitive advantage lies with who best uses the Internet's immediacy and wealth of information to educate and advise the consumer. "It all adds up to a real boon for consumers," he notes. "At our Web site, for example, we... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal

concussions. That led to a meeting with Christopher Nowinski, a former Harvard football player and professional wrestler and the head of the Sports Legacy Institute at Boston University. Nowinski advised that the leading experts were... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

13 May 2025
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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

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Jun 2007
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Letters

being active participants. All forms of illicit financial flows are assisted by a global structure that comprises 72 tax havens, secrecy jurisdictions, millions of disguised corporations, anonymous trust accounts, fake charitable... View Details

09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details

01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

their bonds grows out of the first-year experience, that crucible of learning. But the School can’t take those personal ties for granted. To an extent that is not true of most graduate schools, we depend on our alumni for financial... View Details