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- 24 Apr 2014
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Making community involvement a part of daily business
Margaret Preston (MBA 1983) talks about being involved in community life throughout her career in investment banking, wealth management, and entrepreneurship. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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What Makes Israel Tick?
1951). The group also traveled to the Palestinian West Bank to assess the status of financial and social institutions required for successful statehood. Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice Arthur... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Faculty Books
Banks as Multinationals edited by Geoffrey Jones (Routledge) This comparative, international study, edited by Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, looks at the origins and... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
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Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
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Real Talk
founders have seen the model work again and again. Henderson recalls working with the management team at the largest bank in South Africa, post-apartheid, after he asked them to share their personal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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School Ties
the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
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Life Preserver
“There’s a massive gap between how many people get to benefit from a lifesaving organ transplant and how many truly need one,” says Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009). He’s spent the last decade trying to change that. In the United States alone, scientists estimate between... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Assets: These Little Piggies
Not long after Joseph Fuller (MBA 1981) cofounded the consultancy Monitor Group in 1983, a competitor made it known that pigs would fly before the firm succeeded. “That became our rallying cry,” Fuller says. He hung a terra-cotta flying pig from the ceiling of one of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad
incentives, may be enough to nudge conversion projects along despite the physical challenges. That’s what many American cities are banking on. San Francisco, which reported an office vacancy rate of nearly 34 percent last September, has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
income to achieve desired levels of redistribution without harming saving; and a carbon tax to correct for externalities associated with energy consumption. In short, no tax expenditures that litter the code with preferences View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells
and cord-blood stem cells for the treatment of some cancers, genetic disorders, and certain immune deficiencies. (Cord blood contains stem cells; individuals can bank their own... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 May 2016
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Education Is the Key
Claudio (OPM 12, 1987) and Rosalie Haddad In 1998 Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) had achieved great success in a nearly 20-year banking career. He easily could have rested on his laurels, but instead, he left... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Apr 2014
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Leadership is all about 'how you make a difference'
Henry M. Paulson, Jr. (MBA 1970), talks about his leadership as CEO of Goldman Sachs and as US Treasury Secretary. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
priorities." The task of organizing the chair's endowment was a first-time collaboration for Corbett, managing partner for Internet Partners at Zephyr Management, a private equity venture capital firm; James, chairman of Investment View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Apr 2000
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HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June
Final plans are in place for the 2000 HBS Global Alumni Conference, to be held in Berlin, June 1316. Conference cochairmen Christoph-Matthias Brand (MBA '94) and Heiner Thorborg (12th ISMP) report that early registration is strong for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
friend persuaded him to apply to HBS, where he arrived in the fall of 1966, newly married and with a razor-thin bank account. “When the oilman came to the door with the bill after filling the tank, we’d hide... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Leading Quietly
well is tricky." Accordingly, he provides short case studies to illustrate some of the many thorny issues a quiet leader might face, how a new CEO deals with a sexual harassment case, the personnel issues facing a bank president, View Details
- 21 Aug 2016
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From Money to Ministry
suited to counsel those facing difficulties in the private sector. He gives much of the credit to his time at Harvard. “Business is an ethical profession. It’s also about relationships. How do you teach people, and do you listen?” says... View Details