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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
offerings. It has also organized a volunteer group of investors, mentors, and advisors for weekly "office hours" to review pitch decks and offer workshops on recruiting, negotiating, and presenting, among other skills. "When Amal told me... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
mutual funds and the income the funds earned from securities lending. Securities lending involved temporarily transferring securities from mutual funds managed by Star Advisor to short sellers and other investors. Income from these loans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
strived for the formal integration of risk management with performance management (the risk function as 'Strategic Controller'). The achievement of the Strategic Advisor role in some banks and the Strategic Controller role in others,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
with a “t.” $68 trillion of wealth transferring from baby boomers and older generations to millennials and younger generations over the next 25 years. Most studies suggest that 80 percent or more of the heirs of that wealth will look for a new financial View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
accepted for the competition must develop their plans in an elective course or field study. They will also work closely with a faculty member. Many if not most HBS students will start a new venture someday, say Professor William Sahlman and Senior Lecturer Joe... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
early advisor to the program's founders; John Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), provider of initial funding and ongoing support for the Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE); Robert Halperin and Nathaniel Foote, who together started the program... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
that a higher price could be obtained. Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine agreed with the plaintiffs on the conflicts, and in his opinion expressed serious concerns with how El Paso advisor Goldman Sachs and El Paso CEO Douglas Foshee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Advisory Group for the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign. Finally, Professor Sullivan was appointed Advisor to the Department of Justice Presidential Transition Team. In 2007, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Professor Sullivan was... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response By Andy Slavitt (MBA 1993) St. Martin’s Press From former Biden senior advisor Andy Slavitt, Preventable is the definitive inside account of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some shareholders about Hikma’s reliance on a combined chairman/CEO position, the long tenure of some directors, and the company’s approach to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
unconscious, but that was the way it was. And those were the kinds of things they had to contend with. [MUSIC] JH: In her understated way, Tosh Barron has worked to improve the experience of women on boards, whether through her own example or as a founding director and... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
business of water.” She serves as an advisor to Climate Story #18 Tom Ferguson’s Burnt Island Ventures and the water accelerator, ImagineH20. She agreed with Tom’s list of water industry investment opportunities: "sanitation, water pipe... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
the Age of Options Executive Education workshop. A graduate of Harvard College (1958) as well as HBS, Sloane has served as a consultant to industrial and commercial companies in the areas of corporate strategic development and organizational effectiveness. He has been... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
that have funded the whole process. And the ways that MBA-types participate in this continuing evolution —not only as operating executives, but as investors, directors, and advisors as well —seem many, varied, and not just a young or even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
can’t yet afford to pay market rates. For some qualifying students, the Rock Loan Forgiveness Program helps reduce their debt burden after graduation. FAST FACTS 45 Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, Rock Executive Fellows, and Venture Capital and Rock Entrepreneurship View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713480-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 210-047 Five and Six Dulles Station Cricket Real Estate Advisors needs to decide if they should invest in a proposed joint venture development with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
CalPERS' external fund managers, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), and a service provider to DFA and CalPERS, KLD Research & Analytics. One question facing CalPERS with this new approach is whether to invest in PetroChina, which had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
vulnerability. For instance, when teaching a Negotiation class to first-year MBA students, she shares the story of the time she flubbed an important negotiation situation in her own life. "I tell them about how my postdoc advisor made me... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
high-risk, high-reward approach, they should be prepared for such young leaders to fail, and thus need a “Plan B.” One step teams and organizations can take is to ask former CEOs to serve as advisors when younger, leapfrogging CEOs are... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
the leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Lastly, the case discusses the critique and defense of the board's role and is designed to allow for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the cyber breach and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne