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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Supporting the Troops
(MBA 11/’47), cofounder of the Wall Street firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, served in the Navy in World War II and says the GI Bill helped him earn degrees from Swarthmore College, HBS, and Columbia Law School.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Taking the Long View
huge national debt. He prefers shares of companies such as Canada’s EnCana, Wal-Mart de Mexico, and Petróleo Brasileiro. “At least three-quarters of whatever I own is foreign stocks,” Gordon revealed. Former Goldman Sachs cochairman John Whitehead (MBA 11/’47),... View Details
William F. Kerby
Kerby was responsible for building the Wall Street Journal into the second largest national newspaper in the Unites States with a circulation in excess of 2 million. He championed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
ACCION's helm in 1994. You left Wall Street for ACCION. Why? During 4 a.m. leveraged-buyout marathons at KKR, I'd occasionally wonder if I might be doing something else, however small, that could help make... View Details
Bernard Kilgore
Kilgore was instrumental in shaping the format and content of the Wall Street Journal. He designed the front-page format (which is still used today) and was principally responsible for building the Journal... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
Warren H. Phillips
Phillips presided over Dow Jones & Company’s most successful financial performance – generating a sevenfold increase in revenue and a fivefold increase in profitability. He greatly expanded the Wall View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
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News Sources We have special digital access to several news sources (use your HBS email to sign up): Bloomberg.com The Financial Times Harvard Business Review The Information The New York Times The Wall View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
invested in me,” says Trejo. “Within two years of meeting him, I had two internships on Wall Street and was accepted to the HBS 2+2 program. It was like a light switched on for me and everything changed.”... View Details
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William Donaldson | Baker Library
institutional fund manager required higher quality research on firms’ projected stock price performance than was available on Wall Street at the time. Bill and his partners Dan Lufkin and Richard Jenrette... View Details
- 28 Jul 2021
- News
Squarely in Their Corner
easy-to-use online tools for payments, payroll, and loans was a natural fit, thanks to her background. “I felt the strongest purpose and calling in Square in helping that entrepreneur,” Ms. Ahuja told the Wall View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A social enterprise visionary
Believing that there was a pressing need for management education that would prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector, the late Wall Street executive John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) inspired and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
found compatriots with Wall Street backgrounds who wanted to change careers or make social enterprise an integral part of their career. A few years after graduation, Silbert founded the Center for Women &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49
Every HBS class has its “war stories.” In recent decades, they’ve been about takeover battles on Wall Street or crashing and burning in Silicon Valley. For the MBA Class of 1949, however, the “war stories”... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
James R. Moffett
In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
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Historical newspapers
What resources are available at Harvard to search or browse historical newspapers? There are many historical newspapers or historical newspaper collections available online at Harvard, including: Wall Street... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Courtesy of the Feldberg Family Sumner Feldberg (MBA 1949), who died on July 1, 2022, was remembered in an obituary in the Wall Street Journal as an innovator in the field of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Teamwork Testament
Sandlers met and married in New York, where Marion was one of the first women to work as a securities analyst on Wall Street. “I started at Bloomingdale’s,” she recalled, “but I didn’t want to make a career there. View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
High Stakes on the High Seas
winds; when it was over, only 43 boats had crossed the finish line. Six sailors had died, more than fifty others had to be rescued, and 12 boats sank or had to be abandoned. G. Bruce Knecht (MBA ’86), a Hong Kong-based foreign correspondent for the View Details
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Sarah Bucknell Treco
What was the secret to success as a woman on Wall Street in the 1970s? One promising managing director-track VP left the office on Thursday night to give birth and returned to work on Monday morning. Junior... View Details
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Factiva | Baker Library
Factiva Aggregated news from national and local newspapers, magazines, trade publications, and transcripts. Read More Factiva includes access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Barron's. Content... View Details