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- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
sorrows.” Retired since 2013, Quainton now serves as a mentor, helping new ministers find their vocation and calling. “That’s a major satisfaction for me,” he says. “They don’t have any private sector experience and can have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
to bringing the right type of HR and systems and finance systems to those companies. And finally, really helping them raise capital. “Capital is really looking to enter Ethiopia as it opens up as we speak. But the issue is that they're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
assistance. Back in Paris, he telephoned the Ministry of Finance to report he would not be making an offer; the factory was a disaster. No, no, he was told—we’ll help you. “I said well, if the minister of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) left his job as an investment banker in New York to move back to his native Senegal as an advisor to the minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. The position would entail developing the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
hundred students, professionals, and alumni with business interests in Africa attended the event, which served as a forum for understanding the reasons behind Africa's continuing loss of intellectual capital. Kwesi Botchwey, Ghana's former View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
the road will run over the nearby railroad tracks. In its place, where some of the area’s most dangerous housing now stands, Rodríguez Larreta envisions a park for a community that has had almost no green space. His plan is also an expensive one—US$320 million, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under Prime View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
(MBA ’69), a founding partner of Apax Partners and a social-venture entrepreneur, and HBS senior lecturer Thierry Breton, former finance minister of France. With University Professor Michael Porter... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
Conference hosted by the HBS Club of the GCC (The Gulf Cooperation Council). His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Cabinet Member and Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates, gave opening remarks for the 6th annual... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
billion in equity financing in 2017, while their Silicon Alley cousins raised $1.5 billion, or 15 percent more. (CB Insights was in the first FIL graduating class.) The total number of equity financings was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
It's past midnight and the Minister of Finance and Economy is home early from work, fumbling around in the kitchen of his spartan apartment, trying to find something to eat. He's two years into the job, but... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
energy future — it has too sensitive an address and too much oil to continue in chaos. horgan, at right, with driver, examines bullet hole in his car. Currently serving as Iraq’s Interim Minister of Trade, MIT graduate Ali Abdul-Amir... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
central bank on rhythm guitar and Serbia's minister for foreign economic relations on lead vocals. Djelic himself, along with several other government ministers, sang back-up. According to the Wall Street Journal, the party broke up at 4... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
persuade people, when the country was falling apart, that you see an incredible opportunity to move ahead,” she says. But all of those cases from second-year Entrepreneurial Finance proved invaluable in helping her grow the business in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
the Maldives, Bhutan, and Thailand. “As I worked in development, I realized I didn’t understand enough about finance and commerce,” he says, explaining why he applied to HBS. “It was also a bit about taking a step back to understand what... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
including the information age in Asia, venture capital in India, and joint ventures in China. Other conference highlights included the participation of Vietnam's Finance Minister Nguyen Sing Hung, Taiwan's... View Details