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- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. Funded by philanthropists,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
15 years old, and his extended family quickly swooped in to seize his assets—a common move known locally as a land grab. Dlodlo’s mother, who was left to raise five children single-handed, fought off her in-laws as long as she could. Eventually, however, she had to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
best is yet to come for innovation at Harvard as Allston activates further. We couldn’t be more excited. Harvard Innovation Labs Located along Harvard’s evolving Western Avenue innovation corridor, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
market was far from welcoming. His dream would, once again, have to be deferred. Instead, Platzer applied his quantitative background at a hedge fund and in other investment management roles. In 2009,... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he... View Details
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
providing the funds to help others make or build something, and it helped me recognize that I wanted to be in a company that produced or manufactured something directly. It also showed me the trials as well as the benefits of a small... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
benefits of these cuts would go “to people at the bottom end of the economic ladder,” he assured voters. And yet, of course, CEOs — let alone hedge fund managers — now routinely pay a lower proportion of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a high-quality urban institution, to serving on the Virginia Council of Higher Education, to funding the Batten Center for Entrepreneurship at UVA's Darden School of Business. Batten's biggest challenge these days, he says, is to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
than feel limited by what seems possible. They are also clear that this is a moment for their business to be used as a tool for activism, not activism as a tool for business. Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Chairman and cofounder, High Meadows... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
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: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
discuss the spread of mutual funds to Asia, Europe, and Latin America; compare them with other investment vehicles like hedge funds; and show how to sort mutual funds by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
his fiction, casting young managers in manufacturing and industrial settings as his protagonists. But his focus was not on their business activities so much as on their warps, biases, emotional hang-ups, and “all other decisions of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
decades thereafter, the NBA’s activity on the continent focused on grassroots development. Its international Basketball Without Borders program, which launched in Africa in 2003, featured athletic development and training as well as... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
beers. Shufelt, a former hedge fund trader, had decided that all the boozy weeknight work dinners were incompatible with his life and fitness goals. He quit drinking and found sobriety to be a brilliant... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
both sort of felt deeply and we just said, "We have to work with each other." And after that, I joined JAB Holding, which is an investment fund that owns a bunch of food retail concepts like Krispy Kreme and Panera Bread, Pret a Manger,... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Working for a double bottom line
Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) uses her experience as a writer, editor, hedge fund manager, and banker to help women and girls who face challenges throughout the world. Together with her husband, she wrote Half... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
pension fund administration group he would get to know many different kinds of investment outfits. In 1975, he joined one of these companies, New YorkÐbased Century Capital Associates, where he remained for eight years. In 1983, with $2... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.