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- 06 Oct 2016
- News
“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
to exchange the Westerners for prisoners, Quin and the others were used as a human wall while their captors exchanged fire with the Yemeni army. “It seemed impossible that we could survive,” Quin told the... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New England Marco Bitran, MBA '03 AI View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
offices in 18 countries. The firm's main product, ISI Emerging Markets, is a continually evolving resource of information covering emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contracting with local information providers - from newspapers and stock View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Saving the Steel Industry
United Steelworkers (USW) union as an “unsecured creditor” — much like a financial institution or corporate supplier — and used his Wall Street knowledge and contacts to facilitate mergers aimed at strengthening the industry. In exchange... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Iron Lady
“build an economy that works for the ordinary citizen of Nigeria” (BBC, September 13, 2010). Dubbed the “Iron Lady,” Oteh announced last summer that “local and international investors need to understand that things have changed.” She sacked the two top officials of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
platform that facilitates diaspora and impact investing in Africa. Formerly a portfolio manager with the World Bank, where he helped African and other emerging nations set up foreign exchange and asset management activities, Guichard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Credit, Decoded
A page from one of 63 credit volumes covering business in Louisiana State. This annotated entry details the success of two “free men of color” (identified by scholars as light-skinned men of mixed race) who worked as exchange brokers in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
focus on asset management and service would yield superior results. The approach worked so well that the company became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa. Anticipating the end of exchange... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Bank in September 2015, previously serving a five-year term as director-general of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission from 2011 to 2015. An alumni profile of her during that stint details her transformative efforts at the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Exploring Asia at the Crossroads
by a plenary session and several panel discussions. Saturday's sessions began with an opening address by Amaret Sila-on (68th AMP), chairman of Thailand's Stock Exchange and of the country's Financial Restructuring Authority. Some twenty... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools that specialized in technology.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year
development of EECPCL. Alumni gather biannually under the auspices of the foundation to continue the exchange of ideas and to collaborate on program development and research in entrepreneurship. “It is very gratifying to see the effect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Restoring Order
Last December, calling him “one of the most respected business leaders in our nation,” President George W. Bush (MBA 1975) nominated Wall Street veteran William Donaldson (MBA 1958) to be Securities and Exchange Commission chairman.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities
organizational leaders of more than thirty companies now operating in Africa, including Colgate-Palmolive and Merrill Lynch. The day concluded with a reception that allowed HBS students and alumni with professional aspirations or activities in Africa to View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June
exchange of ideas about the evolution of the European Union." Held at the Estrel Residence and Congress Hotel -- Germany's largest hotel -- the conference will also feature social events and tours, as well as an opportunity for small... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
life, and we need to strive for balance. Is the idea of privacy generational? Allegra Jordan (MBA 1995), Chapel Hill, North Carolina Young people don't seem to care as much about their online privacy as their elders do, but we've all contributed to making privacy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
students sold their souls for employment to the tune of familiar songs such as “Be Our Guest” (“Be Depressed”), sung by students upon learning their fate from Career Services, and “Soul Man” (“Soul Plan”), as the devil hatched a plan to capture students' souls in View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
security) so that it can become a globally accepted medium of exchange? —Joseph DiSorbo (OPM 41, 2011) So far the ecosystem has been working on creating the basic infrastructure for bitcoin to operate: exchanges allowing people to buy and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
and send it to the company via a prepaid shipping box in exchange for cash. After that, Gazelle resells the tech to individuals, wholesalers, and international buyers. So far, so good: To date, Boston-based Gazelle has handed out $150... View Details