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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
HBS, Simmons, who also attended the University of Utah and the London School of Economics, spent two years at First Chicago establishing a corporate finance department that focused on the offshore oil and gas industry. He subsequently... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details
- 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
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, and leadership, the reflections below highlight the ways in which cases have also revealed,... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
says with a laugh. Upon graduating, Ogunlesi moved to Washington, DC, where he landed a position clerking for US Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall. “That was one of the high points of my career,” he says. “Justice Marshall was a fantastic View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
on Wall Street. “That was my introduction to finance and the MBA degree,” she says, noting that back in Cambridge, she began crossing the river to study at Baker Library and attended a conference organized by HBS’s African-American... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Fostering Diversity
Ben Feder (MBA 1991) and Victoria Lindenbaum Feder (MBA 1994) When Ben Feder attended his 25th Reunion, he was inspired by something that then Dean Nitin Nohria said: “HBS has the power to change lives.” Feder, a history major at Columbia University who had View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a banking system... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 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 credit card. Chuck Knight, who runs Emerson Electric: a master at... View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
preferred shares that the trust holds. We have final sign-off on any change in corporate structure, on any entrance of new capital or new investors. We are the final mission check to ensure long-term local ownership and sustainability. You were there in View Details
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
Investing in Entrepreneurship
has served as a director of more than 50 nonprofit and corporate boards. He has devoted significant energy and support to advancing medicine, an area of deep personal interest since he was 12 years old, when his 13-year-old brother... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
of the business. I help her with MAYU’s financials, commercials, fund raising, etc. A lot of what I do for MAYU stems from my learnings from classes like TEM, FMSF, and the more generic finance classes from the RC year. It is indeed very... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
private investors. Many of these solutions don’t exist, and this is why we need the private sector’s innovation, drive, and scale focused on scaling solutions. I’m excited that Blackstone is helping to play a significant role in financing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
same from financial services firms. However, consumers understandably have a different bar when it comes to shopping online for clothes versus picking the financial product that’s best for them. Finances aren’t just personal, they are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
black-box entity linked to a start-up with a dollar sign. A Los Angeles native, Wasserman, 32, met his wife (now a practicing obstetrician) as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received joint degrees in management and View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
similar goal: advancing Brazil. André Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, made a significant personal donation to renovate Baker Hall, which will be renamed Esteves Hall in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
something that fit my personality and lifestyle,” explains the affable Franyo, who is now the proud proprietor of the Boatyard Bar & Grill, located in the Eastport section of Annapolis, Maryland. Prior to retiring in March 2002, Franyo... View Details