Filter Results:
(165)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(842)
- People (10)
- News (165)
- Research (518)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (347)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(842)
- People (10)
- News (165)
- Research (518)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (4)
- Faculty Publications (347)
Sort by
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
balancer shafts, and other niche prismatic parts. We have also acquired a majority stake in EMOSS in the Netherlands—a complete end-to-end solution provider of electric drivelines for commercial vehicles. This marks our entry into the EV space, which allows us to View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
three decades, Klarman has built one of the most successful hedge fund companies in the world. While such accolades are important to Klarman, he is equally proud of the culture at Baupost. "We have a very collaborative environment where... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Yat-Pang (MBA 2000) and Helina Au
10th Reunion, and Howard Stevenson responded.” Stevenson, the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, introduced Au to principals of a major hedge fund who not only advised him but also invested in Veritas and helped... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he founded in New York; Evolve... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
global hedge fund initially focused on managing his own money. Over the last 15 years, Jakurski and his team have grown the now 80-person firm into one of Brazil's top five independent asset management firms that includes credit and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
beers. Shufelt, a former hedge fund trader, had decided that all the boozy weeknight work dinners were incompatible with his life and fitness goals. He quit drinking and found sobriety to be a brilliant “life hack,” but he also missed the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
benefits of these cuts would go “to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder,” he assured voters. And yet, of course, CEOs — let alone hedge fund managers — now routinely pay a lower proportion of their income in federal tax than... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment managers to reload... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
Daphne Dufresne (MBA 1999) delivered the opening keynote address at the fifth annual Women in Investing Summit in Klarman Hall. The student-led Women in Investing Club seeks to strengthen the network of HBS students and alumnae pursuing investment management roles in... View Details
- 20 Jun 2013
- News
Looking Ahead, Giving Back
graduate was willing to match our gift really helped to inspire people." Kempner, who works at Taconic Capital, a hedge fund in New York, is excited to continue to serve as an HBS volunteer. He is now Class Fund Cochair with James... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England HBS Association of Boston Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI Exchange... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Working for a double bottom line
Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) uses her experience as a writer, editor, hedge fund manager, and banker to help women and girls who face challenges throughout the world. Together with her husband, she wrote Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
A young currency trader knocks politely on a conference room door at Kingdon Capital Management Corp. (KCMC), a Manhattan-based hedge fund. Her boss, KCMC's founder and president Mark Kingdon, invites her in with a friendly nod. "The... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho
Investment Banking: 10.5% Investment Management: 7.3% Hedge Funds: 5.3% Private Equity/LBO: 12.4% Sales & Trading: 2.0% Venture Capital: 2.5% Other: 4.4% Consulting 21.1% Manufacturing 17.3% Biomed/Pharma: 3.7% Consumer Products: 4.9%... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers deposits from owning, investing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Too Cool for School
KHAN: Using software and videos to create an education revolution. Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle Salman Khan (MBA ’03) was working at a hedge fund in 2004 when he began tutoring his young cousin in math, using the phone and... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
get. I'm watching how conflict is being handled as a guide, and I'm not encouraged.” In a new essay on LinkedIn, noted hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (MBA 1973) writes that Americans are divided in ways not seen since the Great Depression... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jackie Adams
Adams Photo Courtesy Business Wire For more than twenty years, Jacqueline J. Adams reported on important people, issues, and events as a correspondent for CBS News. A Boston native, Adams began her career in her hometown in 1972 as a reporter for Channel 7. She opted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
your book as you do writing it.” —Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997), investor, entrepreneur, and author of Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth “[Investment consultant and fellow author] Charley Ellis (MBA 1963) told me to make sure I... View Details