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- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Standard Bank Group. (You can read more about Williams’s work with NBA Africa in this recent article from the HBS Alumni Bulletin.) The panel was moderated by Naana Winful Fynn (MBA 2004), a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James Dimon, MBA 1982
and management practices are legendary — as a strategist who can integrate fractured businesses; as a dealmaker who bought two failing banks during the extraordinary circumstances of the past two years; as a... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1954 Born, Boston, Massachusetts 1976 Earns BA, Economics, Dartmouth College 1976 Joins New York Bank for Savings 1980 Earns MBA 1980 Joins S.C. Johnson & Son 1982 Joins the Vanguard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
The room lights up when Peter Harf talks about perfume. His enthusiasm is contagious as he discusses a new cosmetics collection. The chairman and CEO of Coty Inc., one of the world's leading fragrance and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
Tunnell recalls that “as a liberal arts undergrad, I wanted an education that drew ideas from a variety of disciplines, people, and perspectives.” Noting “it wasn’t easy to jump between schools” during his time at Harvard, Tunnell says he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
possibilities. For me, HBS was a turning point." After graduating, Brody went directly to Goldman and began an outstanding twenty-year career there. Over the years, he founded and headed Goldman's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
of bank teller to become chairman of Zions Bancorporation in Salt Lake City, with teaching him that ethical standards are an intrinsic part of doing business. "He measures his performance in terms of doing the right thing View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
Society; and George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Five Technologies That Will Change the World, with Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1990), MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice of Business... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
wanted to go back to Brazil because at that time the country was really booming," he says. He was soon put in charge of developing the bank's leasing company. During his 10-year career at Unibanco, he quickly rose through the company, running parts of the investment... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Institute of Education and Research Claudio Haddad is a dreamer with a unique ability to temper his idealism with practicality. Having served as economics professor, government leader, and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
first lady, Jeannette Kagame. Inside Kigali’s three-year-old, $104 million BK Arena (named for the Bank of Kigali), pregame entertainment features a troupe of thunderous, polyrhythmic drummers and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Wasserman. "They have a lot of senior people at the top and very few junior people below them. Several other industries that started out that way - such as investment banking View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
Comstock: a community service entrepreneur who has founded two inner-city banks and other community organizations in New York and the San Francisco area using his personal... View Details