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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Two HBS Alumni to Lead Carlyle Group
who has been with the firm since 1995, began in the leveraged-buyout group, and has also served as interim chief financial officer, chief operating officer and president. Lee joined Carlyle in 2013 as deputy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
the social impact bond, an innovative approach to marrying social purpose with financial returns for investors. Still in the pilot stage in the UK, social impact bonds already have enthusiastic supporters determined to bring them to the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
You Can Bank on This
The rise and fall of the Dow has been variously correlated to hemlines, Christmas tree sales, Super Bowl results, and tea leaves. But Ray Soifer (MBA '65), chairman of Soifer Consulting, a firm that focuses on global View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the investment bank JM View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Upstart Startup
In 1999, Wall Street bankers Randy Altschuler (MBA ’98) and Joseph Sigelman (MBA ’97) founded OfficeTiger in Madras, India, to serve as an outsourcing shop to perform secretarial services for Wall Street financial firms. Today, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
future general managers in science- and technology-intensive businesses who seek firsthand exposure to companies constructing global R&D strategies. Financial Management of Smaller Firms focuses on the View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
Tope Lawani (MBA 1995, JD 1996) is cofounder and managing partner of London-based Helios Investments, a private investment firm concentrating on socioeconomic development in Africa. Helios is virtually the only pan-African View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
tell a tale, the unassuming Robinson is a kind of John Grisham of the corporate financial world. For the past 25 years, he has been teasing out the narrative thread behind companies' financial data and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
It’s no secret that private equity firms have enjoyed massive profits in recent years. In Private Equity Finance, a course in the second-year MBA elective curriculum, students follow the life cycle of a deal in order to learn more about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
their financial knowledge to highlight economic dimensions of the debates." Moskowitz, who is interested in someday entering politics, says it was "extraordinary to push beyond finance, operations, and strategy and have the chance to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
industry that is well known but not well understood. Bussgang should know the material: He is general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston and currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS. The book explains the different ways VC View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
International Finance A Casebook by Mihir A. Desai (John Wiley & Sons) These case studies, by Associate Professor Desai, consider how major financial and investment decisions must adapt to the opportunities and obstacles in a rapidly... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
customer, and eventually revolutionized the financial world. As Bloomberg built his eponymous firm into an information and technology powerhouse, his knack for understanding all aspects of the business... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Professor Nikolaos Trichakis. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6857.html. The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms Running a financial organization, never easy to begin with,... View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
Goncalo Neves-Correia (MBA 2007) is CEO of ThirdWay Africa, an investing and advisory firm based in London, Maputo, and Harare. ThirdWay Africa believes we are entering a new paradigm where sustainability is an absolute. In this... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in other areas. But we didn’t have a course that would help students understand consumers and the financial service firms that serve them, including traditional banks, insurance companies, credit card... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
achieve their long-term financial objectives through an array of services, products, and coordination between the Web, the phones, and our service centers. We let people pick the service they're comfortable with, including face-to-face... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons