Filter Results:
(204)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (563)
- Faculty Publications (53)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (563)
- Faculty Publications (53)
Sort by
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
Valley-based Walden International takes a hands-on approach when it backs new enterprises, insisting on monthly board meetings and close cooperation. Chia is well suited to this coaching technique. While most venture capitalists in Asia come from an investment View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
the road will run over the nearby railroad tracks. In its place, where some of the area’s most dangerous housing now stands, Rodríguez Larreta envisions a park for a community that has had almost no green space. His plan is also an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Plan C or D that gets implemented. That has been true more often than not in my experience.” Banking on Blood The “blood” portion of Fisher’s career began after receiving her MBA, when she joined Haemonetics, a global provider of blood... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Parsec Ventures CEO Richard Steel (OPM 45, 2014) has had a wide range of professional experiences, including everything from running... View Details
- 19 Oct 2012
- News
Past and Present
situations that test both of these abilities every day. “I’ve always tried to take stock of what opportunities were present in my life, and that’s my style of running the business, too,” he explains. “There is no roadmap for how we’re... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
I haven't made it to the cover of Forbes yet,' then run and hide. That's the last thing that should happen," says Loughran, a former director of research at a local investment bank whose own... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
approach to philanthropy. When you started with Baupost at age 25, did you already consider yourself a value investor? Yes. After my junior year in college and right after graduating, I worked for Mutual Shares Corporation, which was run... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
former boss at Citicorp, her social worker mother, her physician grandfather, her husband -- she is also justifiably proud of her own accomplishments. After nine years in consumer banking at Citicorp, in 1985 Marshall was hired as a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family
"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. and Bank of New England -- had... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
It's a long way—a very long way—from the village of Balidhip, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. When you grow up without roads, electricity, or running water, when light and darkness control the rhythms... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite resource that he believes is View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
mischievously saying: “I don’t speak Russian. Who the hell could I talk to over there?” ... In 1939 Weinberg got another assignment: conducting an exhaustive study of investment banking for FDR, with particular attention to the wholesale... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
International. And they were based in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, some of my old stamping grounds. So I went with them, ended up running investment banking there and that was my first foray into small... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
boy, Bill Donaldson went on to cofound the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. After fourteen years there, he began to take on a series of other leadership challenges in business, government, and academia. Most... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
on track. Underpinning his advice with research and illustrating it with stories from others’ successes, Barnett lays out practical, step-by-step processes to help readers realize their goals. Money, Murder, and Madness: A Banking Life by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an industry built on celebrity, media mogul megalomania has View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in... View Details