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- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
people, how to have a good investment committee, how to figure out what was the right type of thing to be buying at the right time. We had a great conversation. In the middle of it I tried to sell him some products, which I normally would... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
tradition in architecture when it gave him its Stanford White Award. In his current role of directing real estate investments for his family’s Samson Investment Partners, Zuckerberg works to stay grounded in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Renaissance Man
Turning the page: A collection decades in the making tells the story of a lifelong passion. Image Copyright Sotheby’s (Photo Credit: Nathan Keay, Tiny Mechanism) Thomas Brooker (MBA 1968) acquired his first rare book in 1959, during a junior year abroad in Paris. At a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
analyzing his own investment home runs and errors with his trademark wit and insight. The author of nine books on personal investing and business, a columnist and regular contributor over the years to... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 11 Jun 2013
- News
A Rising Star Emerges at Berkshire
- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
pursued a variety of career aspirations. Heffernan trained as a doctor (graduating first in his class), practiced briefly, and decided that medicine was not the right fit. He tried investment banking with Goldman Sachs for a few years,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sahlman Heads External Relations
SAHLMAN: Taking an industry-specific interest in alumni relations. As the new senior associate dean for External Relations, Professor Bill Sahlman, an expert on entrepreneurship, brings over thirty years of experience with the HBS... View Details
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Anna King
Anna King, MBA 2015, has been a nanny, an analyst for an international spa company, an associate at an angel investment fund and the "right-hand woman" to a former White House chief of staff. She has deep interests in start-up... View Details
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Micah Macfarlane
exists and the need exists, but it is just not getting there. The market is designed to sell to the developed world and poorer countries need more bargaining power. I brokered investments and negotiated prices to help get affordable... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
fees to service and administrative charges and investment and withdrawal penalties. Chapman is not alone in his struggle to make sense of a murky system, though his career probably gave him a leg up on the average pensioner—a growing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
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Philipp Schäelli
to become more important in the management and investing process. After my summer experience in growth equity in Nigeria I knew that I wanted to focus on private equity for my fulltime recruitment. I also... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
which was part of the appeal. I felt a connection to the customers they serve.” In his internship at Facily (conducted remotely in 2020 due to the pandemic), Westphal utilized his experience in investing to... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
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Brighton Mudzingwa
Business and Investment Club (HABIC), "an organization focused exclusively on exploring how business and investment capital can be used to propel economic development in Africa." Unlearning old... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
To achieve that transformation, Lawani believes, investment in the continent is the key. More specifically, Lawani notes, "Any investments we make that promote financial inclusion—especially that help bring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
essays will help anyone reframe how they view their work and their lives. Do professors tell the same stories year after year? Some do, but most keep them fresh. HBS faculty members have very rich and diverse experiences and backgrounds.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Happening Fast
the Street’s 24/7 demands. “There is no substitute for hard work,” Erdoes said. “There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out.” Erdoes’s investment group has been very... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
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 banking might be the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
since early 2012, and it’s been an experience he never expected as “a guy who spent the first 40 years of his life never thinking about anywhere outside the US.” “I fell in love with this place (Kenya) within 48 hours of arriving,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
full-time portfolio career. “Like with an investment portfolio, you have to think about the composition of that portfolio. What’s the synergy between that portfolio and how does it all come together?” he says. “Then it is all about... View Details
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Daniel Schachne
relationship building." For Daniel, who "loves how sports brings people together," the experience continues to build connections. "Whenever I meet someone, they always want to know about my View Details
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