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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Frightening. Frightening if you own them - and just as frightening if you don't. I think most people feel that it's awfully tough not to make an investment in this area. My hat's off to the Warren Buffetts of the world, who have the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
give them the opportunity to build their businesses.” —Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) Back to top “Lisa Sherman” A successful executive at Verizon, Lisa Sherman is struggling with the decision to reveal her sexual orientation. After... View Details
- 20 Dec 2023
- News
New School
In the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Curriculum Associates, a Massachusetts-based company that creates research-based print and online instructional and assessment tools, made the decision to make its products free to teachers and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009, though, while at an event at NASA... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
day. At that point, Sityodtong learned he had been accepted to HBS. A 1994 econ grad from Tufts University with experience working as an equity associate at Fidelity, he fit the profile of an MBA student. But making the decision to come... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
imperative that we engage immediately with each of these challenges—individually and collectively. The decisions we make about how to manage our investments, our business operations, our supply chains, our people, and our corporate... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
sealing off Sonoma-Cutrer's green bottles are presampled to ensure that they will not taint the wine's final flavor. This investment of tender loving care has paid off: in an annual survey published in Wine & Spirits magazine,... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management, 500 Global had already invested... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
second year, when I was looking for a job as a commercial and investment banker, I would look at their policies for nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all did, so that’s where I applied. I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
While there is a lot to be said for being lucky rather than being smart, I’ve learned that being smart means putting yourself in the path of luck at the right time. Investing and life are a lot like surfing that way: One mostly needs to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Leading at State
a siloed department structure, and they serve multiple constituencies, including Congress and the president. “These dynamics have implications for how you make decisions and how you think about leading through change,” Ager observes.... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app designed to help consumers make more climate-friendly purchasing decisions by... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
School's investment in its doctoral programs creates intellectual capital with widespread effects. After receiving their degrees, most graduates of the DBA and Ph.D. programs go on to influential faculty positions at HBS and other top... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
between generating wealth for the firm’s investment professionals via the fee stream, which is strictly a function of how many dollars you manage, and the investors in the firm — the so-called limited partners, who make money only when... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
If you think that Africa might have some overlooked investment opportunities, but don’t know how to follow up on your hunch, that’s where Cyrille Nkontchou (MBA 1997) can help. His London-based company, LiquidAfrica Holdings, is a... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
writes. The global pandemic has created an opportunity to “bring impact to the center of our economic system, to overthrow the tyranny of profit and to shift the basis for our business and investment View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
manager’s office and then sold to shoppers who had signed up for them. About smaller companies, Ellen had these observations: “Successful founders and entrepreneurs have made every decision, both big and small, and believe that every View Details