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- 01 Oct 1996
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Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
as original equipment, therefore, that was the signal for tire companies either to insist on higher prices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- prices that would not be easy to obtain, or to sell... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
“No Interest in Being the Only”
of RLJ Lodging Trust, a Bethesda hotel company with a market cap of $3.8 billion. “I am humbled and honored to be the first, but I have no interest in being the only,” Hale told the Washington Post. Hale, who joined RLJ in 2005, has also worked at GE View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
regulated industry containing a number of distinct verticals, from capital markets to asset management and lending. Few cities on earth can boast a talent pool with quite as much relevant domain expertise as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
fascinated by stocks since he was a boy, Allan Gray has built a successful career around finding and investing in companies which are priced well below his assessment of their intrinsic value. After earning his MBA and sharpening his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
billion in assets under management. How did you first become interested in investing? My father had spent time in the Argentine and followed the price of Indian tea shares. As a young boy, it was romantic... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
spend more time thinking about what a venture could become if things go well as opposed to worrying too much about what could go wrong. Jeff Bussgang (MBA 1995) Flybridge Capital Partners HBS Senior Lecturer Missed Meal Ticket When I was... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
for Morgan Stanley and leading the Japan office of Clay Finlay, a New York–based asset management company. Matsui was the vice chair for Goldman Sachs Japan and the chief Japan equity strategist. On these birthday-celebration evenings,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
In describing the impact of the HBS experience on her life, Veronica Allende Serra (MBA 1997) says, “Ask me how it hasn’t had an impact.” Serra, the founder of Pacific Investments, a private equity firm based in São Paulo, Brazil, where she manages the Innova View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
can’t access capital as easily as public ones, though that business reality accounted for only one-quarter of the difference in cash holdings. The remainder of the difference was due to attempts to time the stock market: Public-firm... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in assets, managed on behalf of an exclusive group of private clients, most with View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
venture capital and private equity. Last year, he stepped down from his management responsibilities to devote all his efforts to social investing in the United Kingdom and the Middle East. "Those who have had a successful career are... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting systems are the correct ones, the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2006
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Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Start-Up with Giddyup
with cowboy boots.' They're timeless and appreciated worldwide, so I don't have to guess fashion trends." Best advice "Don't worry about a business plan, just go and sell 50 pairs of boots." Capitalization "So far, just me and my savings;... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions and has quickly moved... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
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Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
sustainability, values alignment, and impact, creating a market that has grown almost 25 percent since 2014; it now represents $23 trillion in assets globally. “The potential to deploy capital to obtain... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna