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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
When Singapore’s George Yeo (MBA ’85) was a young man, his intellect and achievement made clear to his country’s leaders that he was destined to become an important national resource. Indeed, he has fashioned an impressive career built on civic engagement and View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972), who enjoyed a remarkably successful career in the investment business, has spent much of the last decade focused on his passion for the environment. Channeling his energy, intelligence,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea."... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
out to sell their company and its investment thesis to investors before. We need to help them articulate the answers to the questions, Why buy this stock? Why buy it now?” In 1999, Harris managed the execution of the IPO for UPS, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
value in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors. Over the years, interest among faculty and students has steadily grown, says Childress, who served as SEI’s executive director for four years before joining the faculty. Since the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
The United States is about to witness a tectonic demographic shift. By 2034, as the baby boomers age en masse, the number of people over 65 will be greater than the number of children for the first time, according to the US Census Bureau. And yet, as View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George “We made a legacy gift so that our contributions will continue after our deaths,” says William W. “Bill” George (MBA 1966) of the planned gift he and his wife, Penny, established to invest in students’... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
approach for the masses. Investment management startup Alpha Architect, cofounded by COO Patrick Cleary (MBA 2010), is considering the launch of an affordable, active robo-advisor that would seek to outperform a passive, globally... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
time in seven years, and companies including Facebook and Netflix are bringing much-needed investment and jobs to a metro region of just under one million people. But Keller, a former state senator and most recently state auditor, has an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
so that it was sufficient for firms to be operationally effective," continues Crane. "Now strategy is much more customer driven, and a firm's brand is more important than ever." Marketing that brand, in fact, has become so essential that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
private-sector industries (e.g., oil and gas, automobiles) and their lobbyists and water carriers in Washington ensured that fledgling alternative-energy industries, perhaps America’s best hope for a manufacturing future, would not get the tax, View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
of male HBS grads to the executive office was not easy, but for women still unwelcomed above the glass ceiling in the ’70s, getting there was especially difficult. “She was one smart, sharp cookie,” says a classmate of Ellen Marram (MBA 1970), a View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
tax incentives), they will work on the set for months at a time and follow through on marketing once the film is complete. However, there are often no guarantees that a project will make it to the big screen, and for that reason it’s... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
societal progress by creating jobs, investing in communities, and bringing the world much-needed products and services. "In an era of budget austerity and political gridlock, business is called on to play a larger role in providing social... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
Generation manages to do the appropriate level of due diligence in emerging markets that lack transparency. Another wondered how Generation’s practice of sometimes holding investments for only a short time... View Details