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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
in the world of finance. They marshal trillions of dollars on behalf of their institutions and influence how capital flows throughout the world. But these elite investors live outside the public eye. Across the entire investment industry,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
female corporate finance associate at Kidder, she became an equity analyst two years later, covering the computer industry. Joining Bear Stearns in 1979 as a risk arbitrage analyst, she rose to number two in the worldwide risk arbitrage department and managed the View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Light. “They had never hired MBAs, and we were very foreign creatures to them. I was one of eight money managers, covering retail and financial services stocks. A year into it, they gave me the entire sector to cover,” she says. Dias... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Like many emerging-market countries, Brazil can seem about as appealing to potential investors as a midnight swim up the Amazon. But in 1983, André Jakurski and three partners decided to take the plunge anyway. With $500,000 in equity... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Open Market Joyce I. Greenberg - Take Good Care Monique Maddy - African Communications Group Steven C. Walske - Parametric Technology Corp. Indeed, from "paperless" magazines to services that search for hard-to-find foreign news stories,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
proud of the turbulence of our own making and the actions we took out of despair. This book sets out to change that. Belsky draws on his experiences building Behance, selling it, and then working as an investor and advisor to distill... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
like Reddit, analysts took note, with some investors pocketing millions—and others losing their shirts. “A meme stock is a stock whose price has ripped far away from any sense of the firm’s underlying fundamental value,” explains Lauren... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
economy to a market economy. Many foreign investors have expressed renewed interest in Mongolia due to its rich natural resources (e.g., copper, gold, coal, uranium) and its strategic geographic location... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
exploding. "Over the next 20 years, we have to generate 80 million jobs," Masha says. "That's the population of Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy." But endemic corruption has scared off many foreign companies. "Nigeria is a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
Tsotsi, an Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, and Twelve and Holding, a film by director Michael Cuesta that follows on his earlier, acclaimed examination of adolescence and identity, L.I.E. “Our basic pitch to View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both saw an opportunity for a new kind of research geared toward the professional investors who were on the rise at mutual and pension funds. At the time, institutions accounted for less than 25 percent of equity ownership, but the way... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
world's poorest countries. The International Finance Corporation invests some $2.5 billion in private-sector enterprise in developing nations. The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency encourages outside investment in developing countries by insuring View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
points out, many different actors must come together to form an entrepreneurial ecosystem, from risk-taking founders to the angel investors willing to gamble on them to the service providers—e.g., real estate agents, lawyers—willing to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a range of close-to-custom sizes.... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds, Hutchinson advances how a proper regard for... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Quicken Loans and Rock Ventures headquarters from the suburbs to the downtown area in 2010; and add urban-dwelling millennials, who see opportunity in Detroit’s relatively inexpensive real estate. Of some potential foreign View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly