Offices of Bank Holding Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
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Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance

fulfilling Corti's dream of piloting a plane around the globe. "Flying always seems miraculous to me -- it's a triumph of man over nature," says Corti, who at the time of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1999
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A Vibrant Brand

officer at Chemical Bank in New York, he began to notice a disturbing phenomenon among the media: a lack of balanced journalism relating to African Americans. The idea View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

franchise the NeuroLaunch model worldwide, and he’s already in talks with groups in London, Singapore, and Israel. Over the next year, the company will hold neuro startup forums in a number View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive View Details

29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate

NLK: What we are seeing in terms of green financing emerging in the world is really quite significant and it started with green bonds. Can we get the global insurance companies in the world and the View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

typically banks and insurance companies - in return for their upfront capital." Designed to attract private investment, the program is a proven success with more capital chasing it than can currently be... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2015
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Rebooting Europe

how to reignite that flame. The former Goldman Sachs banker and Portuguese secretary of state has his work cut out for him. The EU’s 2012 Community Innovation Survey found that while nearly half of European... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; European Union; Government; Health, Social Assistance

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

drought-proof resource has become increasingly appealing. “Carlsbad is a very important test case,” he says. “There are lots of eyes on it—everywhere from Texas to Florida.” And it’s not only the tech that interests other cities, it’s the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Global - Global Activities 2020

Lagos Johannesburg Mumbai Singapore Shanghai Hong Kong Tokyo Map of the world Global Research Centers Global Research Offices “These outposts serve as HBS’s eyes and ears on the ground, supporting our... View Details

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

linking fat cells, inflammation, and diabetes. He now wants to form a company to commercialize these discoveries. At the same time, Isaac Kohlberg, the head of Harvard's Office... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

president of Lazard and former vice chairman of Citigroup. As the longest tenured head of an investment banking group in the history View Details

17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets

Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang

just not there in representative numbers when it comes to business leadership and decision-making. They are unintentionally, but systematically, boxed out. Women hold only 15.2 percent of board seats in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero

recounts during an interview at his memorabilia-filled office at the Giants’ AT&T Park. No stranger to wacky publicity gimmicks, Finley eventually agreed to let the low-watt station broadcast games for the first few weeks View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

operating effectiveness and efficiency, ensure high levels of employee engagement, and improve their overall global competitiveness. After a successful career as an executive with Fortune 500 companies Chase... View Details

04 Nov 2020
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The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a... View Details

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

Brooks Brothers, Marks & Spencer, and Nordstrom. What isn't known to consumers is the name behind all these labels-a family-owned textile and apparel manufacturer headquartered in Hong Kong called The Esquel Group. With seventeen plants or View Details

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

Cornell works for Blue Origin, where she is head of astronaut strategy and sales and supports engine sales for the space exploration company. Along with a few dozen fellow employees, all dressed in royal blue View Details