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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
Scientific), to name a few. As a founder and managing general partner of Venrock Associates, he led the venture investments of the Rockefeller family during a 45-year career. Now retired and serving on numerous corporate and philanthropic... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
design good systems of reporting, hire the right people, and put together the proper multidisciplinary advisory groups. Name: David Thomas, H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Recent book: Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in View Details
Keywords: Management
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
cutting-edge technologies to also build the most advanced security capabilities for biology.” The coronavirus presented a “crucible moment,” he acknowledges. Concentric launched in 2020 with a COVID-19 testing service for schools and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of an Alumni Achievement Award honoree. When... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work, move, and consume. Meanwhile, the... View Details
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation Download Sant profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1931 Born, Los Angeles, California 1955 Earns BS, Business Management, Brigham Young University 1955... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
sparkling academic career. The author of classics such as Competitive Strategy, Competitive Advantage, and The Competitive Advantage of Nations, he is widely regarded as the world's leading expert on competitive strategy for corporations... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund
million gift from the Frist family. The combined gift is the largest to support student aid in the School’s history. These gifts will establish the Frist Financial Aid Fund at HBS. Drs. Thomas F. Frist Sr. and Thomas F. Frit Jr. were founders of Hospital View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Vernon Beckford (MBA 2013) saw the gap almost immediately. From the beginning of his career in commercial real estate finance—first at Credit Suisse and then later at CW Capital and Global Atlantic Financial Group—Beckford observed Wall Street’s obsession with... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
to somehow be of service to others.” A graduate of Morehouse College with a degree in computer science, he recalls that, at the time he applied to HBS, deciding between an advanced degree in business or in religion was “almost a toss-up.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Owners’ Loan Corporation deemed vast swaths of Baltimore populated by people of color to be “hazardous” and shaded them red on its official maps. Banks refused to offer mortgages and other financial services... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
The corporate offices of Houston-based L.E. Simmons & Associates, Inc. (the general partner to SCF Partners, L.P.), are located on the 66th floor of the Texas Commerce Tower, the tallest building in the United States outside New York and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
Named SVP, Fidelity Management and Research LLC (FMR) 2001 Named President, Fidelity Asset Management 2007 Named President, Fidelity Personal and Workplace Investing 2012 Named President, Fidelity Financial Services 2013 Named President,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
for what would eventually become the online services marketplace NextDoor Networks, a business they launched shortly after graduation. Loo and Sityodtong lived and worked out of a two-bedroom apartment in Silicon Valley along with Loo’s... View Details