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- 01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982
ourselves by putting clients first, by charging a fair fee, and by focusing on their best interests. I'm proud of the fact that virtually everybody who has been connected with the firm — employees, clients, advisers, business partners —... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
When the firm started in 2008 with a group of funders that included Bill Gates, Ginkgo Bioworks focused on engineering cells for applications in food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and more. The company employs more than a thousand people,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Schwartz
for new challenges. Following a yearlong sabbatical, he joined the legendary hedge fund and private equity firm founded by financier and philanthropist George Soros. The firm appeals to Schwartz’s twin... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
layoffs and lost revenues, for example - weak companies are artificially supported," he explains. "Other firms won't or can't restructure themselves or exit unprofitable businesses because they are too set in their ways, lack sound... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial popularity among private equity firms and their dramatic decline in use in the late 1980s. Stavros concluded that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
he became the youngest state banking commissioner in the United States when he was appointed to that position in Utah. He left this post in 1952 to organize the Bank of Utah in Ogden. A year later, he became president of the Lockhart... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
manufacturing business with my family since 1997. —Julie Lopez Santiago (MBA 1994) Back to top “Danaher Corporation” In 2008, the industrial conglomerate Danaher Corporation confronts various challenges that threaten its impressive historical performance. Can it... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
Photos by Benjamin Norman In 2014, Stephen D’Antonio (MBA 1986) was living the life he had always envisioned. He’d been a partner at Morgan Stanley for nearly two decades. He sat on the Firm Management Committee and was the COO of the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
explaining why the club organized the webinar. “Over the next 20 years, it will become the most populous continent, and with the largest youth population that would be 100% digital native. They are smart, highly motivated and, with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954
to put his quantitative and analytical skills to good use. Headed by the legendary Marvin Bower (MBA '30), an early leader of both the firm and the management consulting profession itself, who had recently begun the practice of stocking... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
eventually signed on with the Boston development firm of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes, where he remained for eight years before founding (with his partner, Ted Oatis) The Chiofaro Company, of which Chiofaro is president. The virtually unknown... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
health preferences and tastes. Some customers may prefer smaller portions. Meanwhile, the prices for certain organic foods and things like wild-caught fish seem to be going up in a very transparent way, and people seem less concerned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
Richard Ruback was his advisor. “Even before anyone was talking about ‘One Harvard,’ some of us were trying to make it happen,” notes Tunnell, whose 20th Reunion gift supports the HBS-Harvard Integration Fund. Now a managing director at the San Francisco–based private... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Dowling launched Workparent, a coaching and consulting firm that supports organizations and individuals by providing practical tips and techniques that help workers excel at home and on the job. To date, the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
top management positions at several media companies—including TNT and Cartoon Network Asia, where he was deputy general manager, and Discovery Networks Asia, before becoming managing director at IRG Ltd., a Hong Kong–based, boutique M&A View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
but relatively unknown organization with assets of $200 million. The firm was drowning in paperwork, and its employee turnover rate was 43 percent. McDermott changed all that, successfully diversifying USAA... View Details