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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
with a $5 million loan. The plant was located in a run-down area of Bridgeport, the state’s murder capital. We’d often find bullets, needles, and used condoms in the parking lot. But my workforce was steady and very loyal because there were no other View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young Award Recipients Video MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
tradition of questioning Alaska’s relevance, dating back to criticism of the Alaska Purchase in 1867, dubbed “Seward’s Folly.” However, to know the Arctic is to understand the strategic role this region plays in America’s security and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
political patronage jobs? First, we have a job freeze. So we’re not hiring anybody unless there happens to be a vacancy caused by a retirement, a resignation, or a death. Second, when someone calls, I ask, “Surely you don’t want me to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
people often don’t have the financial wherewithal and broad general skills to leave behind a job where they are intimidated. Working in fear is a terrible way to live, and a secret ballot can ameliorate much of that fear. Michael A.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
capriciousness of markets lately, we have also as a class had a full dose of the capriciousness of corporate power, in the form of mergers, acquisitions, reengineerings, and downsizings. (Indeed, we probably fostered some of the caprice.) This lack of View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
twitch in a series of transactions by corporations and the public that can be qualified only as speculation. Men talk of squeezing the water out of securities but seem never to conceive of getting rid of the wind in their own prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Byron Wien (MBA 1956) was a Wall Street icon. He had a 50-year career that included chief investment strategist roles at Morgan Stanley and Blackstone, and was well... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
You’ll learn how to find the reason behind your work; identify what makes you feel happy and fulfilled; use job crafting to transform your role; build positive, fulfilling relationships; and connect your work to service. Arm yourself with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
DOWNTIME: Varma and Agarwala take a break. Photographs By Tom Pietrasik Imagine that you’ve quit your high-paying job with a big, prestigious firm to launch a financial advisory service tailored for India’s rapidly growing middle class,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
and the participating organization. Approximately one-third of program alumni are now permanent hires of the organization, one-third are at a similar organization, and one-third have gone on to pursue a position in the private sector. “My View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
whiffed management assignment, an unceremonious firing, or a failed marriage. Whatever the circumstances, one point becomes clear: The only real failure is not learning from one. Catch those stones While I have had “whoopsies” at jobs as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
advisor to the newly formed government of East Timor. “You had yesterday’s freedom fighters now trying to figure out how to run a country,” he says. “Our job was to help them navigate the big policy and technical issues of various... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
44, has been charged by a bull elephant in the Congo, swum with penguins in the Galapagos, mingled with bison in the American West, and camped out among grizzly bears in Alaska. It’s all part of his job as head of a multinational... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new products and View Details