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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Field 2 Gives Students Hands-On Exposure To Business Practices In Malaysia
capital as part of FIELD 2, the second module of the required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development. She and her five teammates helped Groupon Malaysia explore the potential for developing its own loyalty program. The company was already... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
of my gear to the porters," says Petzel, who has climbed all of the "Seven Summits"—the tallest mountain on each of Earth's seven continents. He now occupies himself at a more manageable altitude in London, where he works for Goldman Sachs as a managing director in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
Australian Air Force, was a fencer on the 1956 Australian Olympic team, and practiced law prior to attending HBS. After graduation and work at a Sydney merchant bank, in 1967 he accepted a position in London with J. Henry Schroder Wagg... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven Henderson (MBA 2016), CEO and cofounder of Fleetzero,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
overvalued stock market looks like a casino of smoke, mirrors, and all-too-frequent bubbles. Then there’s gasoline, food, and heating, basic expenses that are suddenly breathtaking. Oh, and merchants are refusing dollars in India and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
One and Revolution Money, Gregg shifted to B2B with a move to FleetCor, a provider of fuel cards and business-payment products, before becoming CEO in 2017 of RoadSync, a digital payment platform targeting drivers, warehouses, freight handlers, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Penguin Press) Delves Broughton discusses his quest to find the world’s great wizards of sales, among them a Moroccan rug merchant who uses age-old principles to read his customers and Anthony... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
all of their shopping and communicating from there. Our services - password management, merchant mail, and find and compare - stick to the consumer, following them wherever they shop on the Web." With companies like Brodia breaking down... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
are grateful for our help.” The next year is critical to SSP-SA’s sustainability. Having received support from companies such as J.P. Morgan, Anglo American Corporation, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Merchant Bank, and Educational Development... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Esquel Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education MIT, 1974 B.S., Mathematics Other Jobs Jardine Fleming, January-June, 1974 Having whizzed through MIT in 3 ½ years, Yang followed her father's advice... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Co., LLC Greenhill A 31-year veteran and former president of Morgan Stanley, Bob Greenhill launched his own boutique merchant bank, Greenhill & Co., in 1996 and took it public in 2004. The firm currently has a market capitalization... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
all need to look beyond the buildings in front of our eyes. — Beth “MB” Thoren (MBA ’92), a graduate of the US Merchant Marine Academy, is a marketing director based in London. View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
the Coop, the focus on books is true to the store's original charter. Founded by a group of thrifty Harvard undergrads who felt Cambridge merchants were charging too much for books and firewood, the Coop has over the years provided the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
move, but his perseverance paid off once again. Today, Petzel works in London at a comfortable altitude—24 meters (79 feet)—as a managing director in the firm's Merchant Banking Division, one of four divisions that put capital to work. "I... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
2008 Opens Özyeğin University Hüsnü Özyeğin's grandfather was a Turkish clothing merchant who didn't go to college, but he instilled in his progeny an appreciation for the value of education. The younger Özyeğin pursued his studies in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Macquarie into his native Australia's premier merchant bank and in June won wide acclaim for leading the winning consortium to privatize Sydney's airport. Still other classmates have created value in ways not measured in earnings per... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
from one town, New Bedford. The reason actually has nothing to do with them having better ships or them having better anything. It's only because of their invention of a new financing mechanism, whereby merchants were able to take money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
stuck, something he doesn’t dodge. No doubt it works to his advantage in his new pursuit. Mr. China retired from ASIMCO in January 2009. Three months later, he launched JFP Holdings, a merchant bank based in Beijing. (Bain Capital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
achievement; use it as a step to greater success). In Peace and War: A History of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point by Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986) and Chloë G. Kline (Wiley) This history draws on extensive... View Details