Merchants - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker

Australian Air Force, was a fencer on the 1956 Australian Olympic team, and practiced law prior to attending HBS. After graduation and work at a Sydney merchant bank, in 1967 he accepted a position in London with J. Henry Schroder Wagg... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award

Co., LLC Greenhill A 31-year veteran and former president of Morgan Stanley, Bob Greenhill launched his own boutique merchant bank, Greenhill & Co., in 1996 and took it public in 2004. The firm currently has a market capitalization... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

21 Jan 2014
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Climbing to New Heights

move, but his perseverance paid off once again. Today, Petzel works in London at a comfortable altitude—24 meters (79 feet)—as a managing director in the firm's Merchant Banking Division, one of four divisions that put capital to work. "I... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

2008 Opens Özyeğin University Hüsnü Özyeğin's grandfather was a Turkish clothing merchant who didn't go to college, but he instilled in his progeny an appreciation for the value of education. The younger Özyeğin pursued his studies in the... View Details

24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential

invests in programs that merge education with workforce development and help low-income youth prepare for sustainable, productive careers. After starting at HBS in 2011, Anderson interned at Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant bank that... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

by Philip Delves Broughton (MBA 2006) (Penguin Press) Delves Broughton discusses his quest to find the world’s great wizards of sales, among them a Moroccan rug merchant who uses age-old principles to read his customers and Anthony... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn

from one town, New Bedford. The reason actually has nothing to do with them having better ships or them having better anything. It's only because of their invention of a new financing mechanism, whereby merchants were able to take money... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, The Esquel Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education MIT, 1974 B.S., Mathematics Other Jobs Jardine Fleming, January-June, 1974 Having whizzed through MIT in 3 ½ years, Yang followed her father's advice... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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The Class of 1977

Macquarie into his native Australia's premier merchant bank and in June won wide acclaim for leading the winning consortium to privatize Sydney's airport. Still other classmates have created value in ways not measured in earnings per... View Details

Keywords: Desmond Wong

02 Mar 2016
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On Credit

church, or were married to a neighbor’s daughter. But with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 and the spread of railroads, newly developed transportation systems expanded the range of business dealings beyond hometown connections. More and more, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

Stanley’s experience is typical of other investment banks at the time. “We got into the investing side of the business primarily because the opportunity was there to buy nonperforming loan portfolios from the RTC,” recalls Slaughter. From a View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

had worked so hard for was the very thing that would kill us. That realization led me to the development of NOWaccount, a merchant service that relieves small businesses from the burden of funding and managing trade credit by immediately... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016