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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- News
Fellowship Funder
Mencoff: A commitment to meritocracy as a core American value. Photo courtesy Samuel Mencoff “A cross between Walter Wriston and Davy Crockett” is how Sam Mencoff (MBA 1981) and his classmates used to affectionately describe HBS finance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian investors who View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
approach to philanthropy. When you started with Baupost at age 25, did you already consider yourself a value investor? Yes. After my junior year in college and right after graduating, I worked for Mutual Shares Corporation, which was run... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
cofounding forty years ago of The Carroll School, which specializes in teaching children with language-based learning differences. He’s also active with his class at Harvard College (celebrating its 70th Reunion this year) and the... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
led him to start his own business selling produce. The next break came after a chance encounter with a clerk at a local library who gave him advice on how to apply for college and get funding. In 1997, Magwegwe completed his undergraduate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
of underserved youth like Trejo in Arizona, and currently serves more than 14,000 middle, high school and college students annually. Programs aim to develop leadership skills, self-awareness, and familiarity with pathways to postsecondary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
theaters next spring. By then, Epstein may well have finished her next project: writing the screen adaptation of a book about the murders of two Dartmouth College professors in 2001. “I can’t imagine ever going back to a big firm,” she... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
don’t lead with their successes. Obviously, when you’re quite young, you’re writing college essays for yourself and you need to tout the amazing things about yourself. This is necessary when you’re younger and don’t really have anyone to... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
hopes to help build—a city designed for this millennium, not the last. It’s been a long road back to Detroit for Rhea, who left for college in the early 1980s. “I would have loved to have been able to go back to Detroit [after school].... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
immersive showerhead. Marcela Sapone (MBA 2015), CEO of Hello Alfred, an online, on-demand butler service; cofounded with classmate Jessica Beck. Also on the Forbes list are 2013 Harvard College grads Laura E. D’Asaro, Meryl F. Natow, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
store in New Jersey; the son accompanied him on buying trips to New York and watched him negotiate for the best merchandise and price. He had even launched his own successful business before arriving at HBS: a birthday cake delivery service that advertised to the... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
his community. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” says Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were, at first, dimmed by a series of tough breaks. It would take encounters with a produce vendor... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
not be in the position of launching Restorsea if I hadn’t gone to HBS.” On October 15, Restorsea launched at Bergdorf Goodman department stores, with the goal, Pao says, of moving from the “lab,” where the store’s newest brands are sold, to a dedicated counter space.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and Service Management units.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
by a punishing cycle of overwork, whether studying for college entrance exams or following the “996” norm of working 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week. “I will slack off at work I am a blunt sword to boycott consumerism,” declared a... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
Had her mother not gone back to school to earn her college degree while raising two young children, Diamond Richardson (MBA 2019) might not have pursued higher education. “It taught me that you can do anything if you really put the effort... View Details
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
George School, and Buckingham Friends School. At HBS, they have been regular reunion attendees, and Jones has served as a class fundraising leader during both reunion and non-reunion years, recently chairing their class’s 25th Reunion Campaign. Garrett earned an AB in... View Details