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- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
credit: Library of Congress / Dorothea Lange READ MORE Hi, this is Akilah Rogers. I graduated in 2009, companies were rescinding offers, and the only companies that were hiring were investment banking, consulting, and CPG. It was a really... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
support from some surprising places, including the country of Singapore's investment company, Temasek, and Tyson Foods, the world's second largest processor of chicken, beef, and pork. Both were looking to the future with their View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
shore of Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land that lies between Manhattan and Queens. Smith’s eyes are fixed on a patch of water demarcated by a series of white and orange Coast Guard buoys. Thirty feet below the surface, a trio of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
extraordinarily effective industrial policy, and then, beginning in 2001, as head of the National Science and Technology Board-now known as the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Comprising one main island and thirty smaller ones, Singapore has a... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
sort of questions did they have? Brunell: Well first, there was a preliminary meeting with the head of the investment agency in Yangon. He told me his objective was to prepare a private sector development transition plan to accelerate and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto, and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al-Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa’s role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri? To... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Illustrations by John Ritter HBS/HU Growth With the Allston land purchase, Harvard University has begun to expand across the Charles River and around the HBS campus. How do you see the School interacting with the University (and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
the future.” The Batten gift will enable the School to secure and enhance the southern entrance to the HBS campus in preparation for Harvard’s major investment in its Allston neighborhood. In honor of Batten, the School will name the main... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
result of my arrogance from 30,000 feet. I failed to get the other groups invested in the program. I completely fiddle-dee-deed the long-lead timetable. I delegated the entire project to a handsome but clueless assistant product manager.... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
investment fund. When the wow of the paycheck wore off, he was unhappy. Whatever Rogers was destined to do, this wasn’t it. His boss suggested business school, and Stanford accepted, but a fortuitous dinner in Dallas found him seated next... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
country back to prosperity. Within his first 100 days, Mitsotakis announced to investors the world over that Greece is open for business. And it’s happening, both in the buzz at the Grande Bretagne and on the world stage. Arhodidis, for one, has a new job. The... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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 open to women at the time," she says. A family friend in View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
The crucial point, though, is that the bulk of Chinese investment has been financed from China’s own savings (and from the overseas Chinese diaspora). Cautious after years of instability and unused to the panoply of credit facilities we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details