International Entrepreneurial Finance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

National Grid and as founder and president of National Grid Partners, directing $400 million in startups and internal innovations that offer unique approaches to managing supply and demand, increasing ef ciency, improving response during... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 May 2024
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On the Job

Shamrock factory on Lake Erie. I also worked with her on Bonnie Bell, which is a cosmetics company, and a marketing plan for this new startup called Leggs, which did pantyhose. Then I worked for International Harvester doing tractor sales... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

Breitfelder, Bronstein, and Chen all conduct detailed internal surveys to better understand what their employees are actually looking for and how they can deliver it in a way that is consistent with their companies’ core missions and... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Dec 2023
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Engaging Students More Deeply

Students at Success Academy stay more focused on the dot rug. Photo courtesy HBS Multimedia Development To tell the compelling stories of a developer working to revitalize Miami Beach, a Maine lobsterman confronting the economic risks of climate change, and a charter... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

secondhand truck and started delivering fuel oil; that was the founding of our company. I felt it was essential to go to college and business school to prepare for the business world. HBS taught me how to stand up for my views, be a good listener, and learn from... View Details

13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect

between the two companies. In March 2021, Model was a part of the Agios team that finalized the sale of the biotech’s oncology portfolio to international pharmaceutical company Servier. For Agios, the sale was part of a pivot from cancer... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

Barclays, Roosevelt has held key positions in domestic and international finance, financial and derivative products, and government-advisory initiatives. By the mid-2000s, as awareness of global warming broadened in the business world,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

dilemma while participating in the second semester required course The Entrepreneurial Manager taught by Shikhar Ghosh, the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice and the faculty cochair of the HBS Rock Center for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

to HBS, citing the School's mission to create socially responsible leaders as “a huge pull.” “I knew most of the students would be more interested in private-sector concerns than international ones,” says Dasgupta. “But as future leaders,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Finance; Finance

19 Dec 2017
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What Investors Need to Consider About Tax Reform

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship

Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Peter O. Crisp (MBA 1960), a pioneering venture capitalist and philanthropist, is known for his firm’s investments in companies that have become household names: Intel, Apple, American Superconductor, Thermo... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

Dlodlo’s university education, a loss that can still bring Dlodlo to tears. After earning a degree in finance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Dlodlo remained in South Africa, working in View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

that recapitalized his home country in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. But Kim’s aptitude for finance is only a small part of who he is as a person. In 2020, he published Offerings, a deeply personal, autobiographical novel about... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital... View Details