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Resources for Harvard Economics Students
and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. An active account can be used to... View Details
- 12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight
up a balance sheet of my personal assets and liabilities,” says Cooper. “I had been successful in two professions—nuclear submarines and investment banking—in which success required a combination of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
junior professionals in consulting and investment banking firms. She found that these individuals had various methods of discovering how to create an effective image for themselves as senior managers. The most prevalent form of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
Viking Global Investors based in New York City, has made a gift to the Dean’s Fund for the past 13 years, knowing that the investment will support important ideas and initiatives at HBS as they arise. John Hansen and Katherine Vogelheim... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Rebel with a Cause
As a junior Episcopal minister, Bob Massie (DBA 1989) infuriated church leaders by revealing to his congregation that its $9 million endowment was secretly invested in a number of unchurchly entities, including military contractors,... View Details
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‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager | Working Knowledge
highlights the importance of matching executive skills to a company's specific needs. Managers execute. Leaders inspire. The roles might sound similar, but they’re not exactly the same job. And when it comes time to hire a CEO, companies don’t always pay attention to... View Details
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John Whitehead | Baker Library
new businesses. His personal approach: he sought out and listened to the firm’s clients, identified new business lines, and over time developed these into major service offerings. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine the world of Goldman... View Details
- 23 Aug 2020
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In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
told the Daily Mail. In fact, Bingham’s role—working with pharmaceutical firms, planning manufacturing facilities, and making investment decisions—ties in directly with her career experience. “As a venture capitalist, I have to write a... View Details
- 14 Jul 2023
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Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity
previous CEO role. “But it is important. Business needs gender diversity.” Eberle Walker first recognized the gender imbalance in the business world as an investment banking associate. She was often the only woman in a meeting—a fact that... View Details
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Jonathan Bailey
through an English/U.S. exchange program and had earned it by being a champion debater at Oxford and by helping found a nonprofit that paired college mentors with high-school students. For a person deeply interested in "the roles of... View Details
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details
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Brittany Williams
systems engineering. Her first exposure to business came from a classmate, two years ahead of her, who became something of a mentor. “He was in systems engineering too,” Brittany says. “He asked me if I knew I could apply systems thinking to View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Dan Shanoff
their cool-dad basketball coach—this is how I will judge my success. Let's reconcile that concept with my $100,000 investment over the last two years. Thank goodness I figured out that Excel freaks me out; I realized I must spend my... View Details
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Marc Alain Boucicault Archives | Social Enterprise
Filter Results: (2) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future of Work HBS Students Impact... View Details
David Duffield
After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative software for managing human resource... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Sep 2018
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From Das’s Desk
cycle: Early-career alumni are going through a period of discovery while establishing themselves in their industry or field. Mid-career alumni are in the process of investing in and expanding their careers, their professional selves, and... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
should weigh the decision to change jobs carefully, because their major value is in the company they currently work for and the teammates they work with. If they do change jobs, they should make sure that the new employer is invested in... View Details
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Tariro Goronga
to date?” Taking an open-minded approach Tariro’s BP experience awakened an interest in finance. To expand his business skills, he turned to HBS—and discovered even deeper lessons than he had expected. “Before I came to HBS,” Tariro explains, “I had preconceived ideas... View Details
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- 31 Jul 2014
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Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
©Rick Friedman As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
Devon Gethers (MBA 2025) Where is your hometown? I’ve lived half of my life in Washington State and the other half in Salt Lake City, Utah. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? Before pursuing my MBA, I dedicated several years to a growth equity View Details