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- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
who is founder and managing partner at Aragon Global Management (AGM), a Chicago-based hedge fund that focuses on global equities. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
and exhilarating. “Everything was pro bono,” she shares. “I was point person for our legal team on charitable application documents, in charge of event planning, marketing, onboarding companies that pledged, and working with web... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
management techniques to the bank his grandfather founded. In the process, he has gained international attention and praise. Cultural differences between U.S. and Thai organizations, Banthoon explains, run deep. In Thailand, he says, “it... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking
feeling, so therefore it’s worthy of study. The second thing is figuring out that, when you study it, you get better at it. This is not of theoretical interest; the more you know, the happier you can get. When it turns out there is knowledge that can be acquired and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
profitable departments at Bear Stearns, I was doing more managing and politicking and less of what I enjoyed most -- trading securities," she explains. At Havens Advisors, a hedge-fund firm, Havens-Hasty focuses on investing in risk... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
equal is the law of the land. So those are the constraints in this entrepreneur's life. He's the grandson of a slave, son of a teamster. And we don't know much about his early life, but sometime by the middle 1890s he's managed to find... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France
addressed the needs of an increasing membership while maintaining strong bonds with the School. He instigated a tradition of monthly luncheons as well as an advisory interviewing committee to meet with French applicants to HBS. In the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
e-commerce solutions for the laboratory supply market; CitySoft, which builds Web sites and intranet applications and recruits and hires employees from underrepresented urban areas; and ZEFER Corp., an Internet consulting firm. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
first-year required Technology and Operations Management course (TOM), the case offers valuable takeaways for future managers of any complex service organization. “It’s a good TOM case in that it includes... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
role as managing partner at Global Ventures, doing all the things hard-driving VCs do—like making presentations from a hospital bed. In March 2021, Enan traveled to New York for open heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
is inappropriate for HBS to dictate to students what they can and cannot say about their grades during the recruiting process,” Light wrote. “I believe you and your classmates earn your grades and should be accountable for them, as you will be accountable for your... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
Elective Curriculum (Second Year) Authentic Leadership Development Leading Professional Service Firms Leading Teams Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations Managing Human Capital Power... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
In his new book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies, Professor Ranjay Gulati makes the case that it is indeed possible to serve two masters—profit and social purpose—at the same time. But in order to do so... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Reunion Snapshots
Erik Sorensen (22nd OPM) Currently the managing director of Club Sultan in Marbella, Spain, an exclusive European holiday ownership club, Erik Sorensen specializes in marketing luxurious vacation opportunities. "My business is about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
that needed professional management assistance. Five years later, I was promoted to company president and became a member of the Young Presidents' Organization. My lifelong friends in YPO helped me to buy and ultimately sell my company;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Looking to the Majors
PAULSON: Sports is a tough business for ROI, but the returns to the community can be ample. Merritt Paulson (MBA ’00), owner of the minor league Portland Beavers Triple-A baseball team and the United Soccer League’s Portland Timbers, is thinking about The Show. That’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
technocrats, I found plenty of talent and resolve to do things better. But the status quo has many allies, and the culture of management is inherently conservative. Liberia is making enormous progress, but it will need two generations of... View Details