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Aaron Chadbourne

high-level wealth managers. It gave me exposure to the kinds of problems senior level executives think about. Within a week, I was on the phone with executives eager to talk to me because I could connect them with resources they... View Details
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Women's Leadership in Business and the Economy - Blog: RGE Report

Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of J.P. Morgan’s Asset & Wealth Management offshoot. Their range of perspectives offered a nuanced understanding of the state of women and finance—how far women have come and what we have left to achieve. Here are... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2017
  • News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

burdens of debt prompted York, global head of Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs, to endow a fellowship in recognition of his 25th Reunion and add to it for his 30th. The son of a veteran, York supports students who have a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

away. However, this new economy offers the best opportunities for high-wage jobs, upward mobility, and wealth creation. There's never been a better time than now to start a new venture. HBSB: Are there any clouds on the horizon? Doerr:... View Details
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Suchita Prasad

taught me hard skills such as finance and marketing, but also softer skills such as owning my point of view, persuasive communication and thoughtful debate. I have also been impressed by the kind of opportunities that HBS has presented in order to define my own path -... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

pay heed to the signals they are sending. Investment Strategies is most directly applicable to students interested in pursuing careers in finance including mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial... View Details
  • May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

The Robin Hood Foundation

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Cathy Ross
Created by hedge fund and financial managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations. As the global financial crisis continues to impact the poor disproportionately, the Foundation needs to ensure that its funds are being... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Poverty; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Financial Crisis; Programs; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

expressing them. It's really pretty exciting. It brings new perspectives and lessons we wouldn't otherwise get." Buy-in At The Top Several factors make it clear whether a profit-driven entity will succeed or flop, said Alfred Wise, director of the Community View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

mammoth charitable foundation created by the combined wealth of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. "We have evidence," Sorrell says, "that young consumers are more emotionally connected to brands or products that take a... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2021
  • News

Equal Partner

source of potential investment. “We want to democratize investment,” Aditya says of Republic’s mission. “This is about leveling the playing field. From the founders’ perspective, it means greater access to capital, and from the investors’ perspective, it offers the... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

was selected as one of the first faculty team members to teach in the new International Senior Managers Program (ISMP), an eight-week Executive Education course that was offered by the School in Vevey until 1983. “It was a remarkable success,” says McFarlan. “We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • July 2007
  • Teaching Note

Rwanda: National Economic Transformation (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Michael Patrick McCreless
Teaching Note to 706491. View Details
Keywords: Economy; Problems and Challenges; Development Economics; Policy; Poverty; Transformation; Performance Evaluation; Political Elections; Rwanda
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  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

You devote a chapter to sovereign wealth funds, which I know are a research interest of yours. Are these a promising source of public support for entrepreneurial efforts? A: In the book I consider a special, but highly visible,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • March 2017
  • Supplement

Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Yannick Saleman
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
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ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Sarah Nam, Sisi Pan and Eric Werker
During the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, general manager of corporate responsibility at the integrated steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, observed the unfolding of an Ebola epidemic in Liberia and other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand... View Details
Keywords: Ebola; Epidemics; Ebola Private Sector Mobalization Group; EPSMG; Civil War; Sovereignty; Change Management; Judgments; Development Economics; Geopolitical Units; Globalized Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Safety; War; Wealth and Poverty; Welfare; Crisis Management; Mining Industry; Liberia
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  • 15 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

One MBA's Path to Boston Consulting Group

opening info session. They held a wealth of dinners, mixers and coffee chats above and beyond what other firms offered. They not only opened their doors but welcomed you in and offered you tea. It feels cliché saying the people drew me to... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 06 Oct 2016
  • Blog Post

Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

stemming from their own personal experiences and areas of expertise. It became clear to me that the wealth of ideas that we, as a cohort, developed over the weekend could only have emerged from the respectful and enthusiastic engagement... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2019
  • News

Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

employment, to create wealth for themselves, and for their communities, and their families. When a woman makes $1, about 90% of their income is spent on health, education and nutrition. And that same statistic for a man is only about 35%.... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
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FIELD 2 in Accra

global business environment. Among this year's FIELD 2 countries, Ghana has both the lowest GDP per capita and the highest rate of GDP growth. "The country has a large and growing wealth divide," notes Leach, who said the team was struck... View Details
Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Information