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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has come a long way toward gender equity since then, with women making up 41 percent of the Class of 2015. But a recent case study... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut. At TSG he was introduced to one of its portfolio companies,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
Emeritus André Perold, who taught an investment management class and with whom Callaghan did research. Callaghan's subsequent career included portfolio management at Equitable Capital and hedge fund Odyssey Partners; small capitalization View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
increased focus on initiatives that instill confidence and dignity,” Shumway reports. All Ideas on the Table Implementing a long-planned succession strategy, Shumway stepped away from his CEO role at Cicero in 2017 and has since combined leadership of the firm’s social... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
side, I probably could have done more, but I wouldn’t change my balance if I had to do it over again. You learn a lot by looking through a spreadsheet and talking to classmates about the work they actually did when they were working in private View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Seattle-based Elevar Equity. Her childhood summers in the Philippines, with its extreme poverty and extreme wealth, inspired an interest in development; a career in private equity and investment banking had taught her how to invest. On... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
More Than a Business
community. There's also Earl Junior (MBA '88)-known more familiarly as Butch - the president and COO of the family's company, Earl G. Graves, Ltd., which includes the magazine, a private equity fund, and a Pepsi bottling operation.... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Tierney (MBA 1980) from The Bridgespan Group, which provides leadership development consulting services to nonprofits. The panel, The Quest for Racial Justice: Making This a Movement, Not a Moment, moderator Ivy Jack (MBA 2004), Head of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
Africa for five years, teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg and serving on the investment committee of a private equity fund. It was also during this time that she acquired the domain name Africa.com, without... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
at Care.com Marcelo at her desk at Care.com Marcelo with her younger son Marcelo with her younger son Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983 Founder and CEO, Providence Equity Partners, LLC Nelson in his Providence office “You partner with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
private equity firm AEA Investors, which expanded Burt’s into stores like CVS, Walgreens, and Target. Burt’s subsequent acquisition by Clorox raised eyebrows. After all, Clorox is best known for making household bleach. “We did not want... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
racial equity and antisemitism. “It was an honor and privilege to be this year’s Dinner Chair,” says Ann Sarnoff (MBA 1987), former chair and CEO of Warner Bros. “I believe deeply in the club’s mission of serving the New York City... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
impact in business and society. This effort is amplified by HBS’s Racial Equity Plan, which calls for the School to attract additional Black talent to all parts of the community and that has, in turn, inspired new efforts by the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
by saying, ‘Jack is the former chairman of Vanguard, a $4 trillion enterprise.’ I say, ‘No, it’s a 15,000-people enterprise, serving 25 million people.’ The assets are the outcome, not the goal.” Home Equity “I went door-to-door in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Tank. Dressed in a bright pink Coffee Meets Bagel T-shirt under a black business jacket, Kang pitched the San Francisco startup to five investors including Mark Cuban. The sisters were looking for $500,000 in financing in exchange for 5 percent View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
says. The cofounder and managing partner of Enhanced Equity Funds, Paul speaks from experience. His 30-year career has been devoted almost entirely to health care. As an example of how innovation enhances care, Paul cites an oncology... View Details