Banking And Insurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

Bank made a $160 million settlement with the Justice Department, agreeing it had been lax about accepting drug money from Mexico.) While U.S. law is tough on drug trafficking, terrorist financing, bank... View Details

02 Apr 2019
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Remembering William Wilder

prestigious securities firms (now CIBC Wood Gundy), and of Consumers Gas, at the time the country’s largest natural gas distributor. In addition, he served on the boards of Royal Bank of Canada, Canada Life... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Alumni Relations Gets a New Director

outreach in three ways: continuing to expand lifelong learning programs, such as The Entrepreneur’s Tool Kit and Charting Your Course: Discovering Working Options, aimed specifically at HBS alumni; improving Web-based career services... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2012
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Kiwi Star

New Zealand forest-products company, and later serve as chairman of the National Bank of New Zealand. He was knighted in 1998. “I am absolutely a contented man,” said Whineray, now retired. “Sometimes I... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

changes that took root after the last crash. “Everything we do today grew out of the dark days of the early ’90s,” says Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

15 Nov 2013
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Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

to approach business relationships—and life—with an open mind and a readiness to learn from everyone. Lisa Carnoy (MBA 1994), managing director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York, New York Courage.... View Details

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

complete information about Africa,” Clarke says, “the ignorance will dissipate. I think the desire to engage with Africans becomes real.” Clarke launched the site in 2010, giving up the certainty and rewards of her position as a managing... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jan 2011
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Peter Harf, MBA 1974

Chairman and CEO, Joh. A. Benckiser SE Download Harf profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Cologne, Germany 1973 Earns PhD, Monetary Economics, University of Cologne 1981 Joins Joh. A. Benckiser... View Details

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation... View Details

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 of Wall Street, he became one of its most prominent Black executives,... View Details

19 May 2020
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Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online

Black community as a private-enterprise desert, with devastating consequences.” To prevent this, he gave an overview of how to fill out the PPP loan application, and shared promising data from Seaway National View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor have made remarkable contributions to their companies and communities while upholding the highest standards and values in everything they do.Â “These five... View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

more older adults may be looking for more flexibility. And they may not want to work the 40, 80-hour timeframe, whatever that number was. And so, that is a new way of accommodating it. They may not need... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family

"counterphobic move." Punch cards and mainframes were the technological order of the day when she enrolled at HBS, and a successful career in marketing -- including top-level positions at J. Baker Inc. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

Back in 1974, Massachusetts native Ken Goldman headed for California to pursue a career in high-tech finance, figuring that while he might not find much glory, at least he'd find good weather. "The prestige jobs back then were strictly in View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Sep 2005
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New Career Wanted

fit.” In her role as an MBA career counselor, Carole Carlson (MBA ’98) tells graduating students to “inoculate themselves” against unwise early career choices by considering all the options. “Consulting and investment View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

02 Dec 2021
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Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

by them. Organizational leaders are also using both/and language to communicate their organizations’ goals and missions. Barclays unveiled a campaign it called AND—stressing that the 300-plus-year-old bank... View Details

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