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- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
suppliers of ancillary home construction products, like cement, paint, and other home fittings. Would this create a unique one-stop shop for construction-related goods, or take Tata Steel further away from its core mission? Dilemmas such as this are at the heart of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 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
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... 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
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
Bower, the Donald K. David Professor of Business Administration, in his 1986 book, When Markets Quake, documented the problem as it affects the petrochemical industry. He has also observed it in other sectors over the years. "In one... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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 View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
you want people to move to your city. So number one is going to be the schools and the youth that are involved with it. Number two is going to be economic development of our city. This entire area is federally subsidized. We're never... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
because of her gender. And so he was just really determined that I’d be independent and practical. JH: Gerald Schwartz (MBA 1970) is founder and chairman of Onyx Corporation, a Toronto- based private equity firm with more than $50 billion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
are pursuing research into the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in today’s AI world, and are leveraging GenAI for case development and classroom exercises. Weiss has experimented extensively with ChatGPT-4 to outline the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
acquisition-led growth? What will be the impact of increased competition from private equity players? For how long can its strategy of “continuous improvement” continue? “I’m the chief human resources officer of a Fortune 500 company, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
is looking out the window, wondering what to do? I had 10,000 of those moments.”) She led one of the first private equity deals in Ethiopia. And as CEO of BGFI Investment banking, she oversaw the financing and the View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
be well suited for the study of history. In 2006 he began developing the elective Creating the Modern Financial System, to examine the intersection of the financial sector and government in shaping financial... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
setting a process for hazard resilience. Administered by UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, I was first to chair its private sector initiative, known as ARISE. As a retired construction CEO and WTC 9-11... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
"For most of the eighties," recalls the unflappable mother of three and wife of a college president, "I was pregnant, walking through steel mills, and buying companies." Now working with small business owners on a national scale, she believes their job-producing View Details
- 25 May 2016
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Backing Harvard’s Work for Children
Robert Tichio (MBA 2005) and Maya Tichio When some of Robert Tichio’s (MBA 2005) HBS friends seem surprised to hear that he recently made a gift to support Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child, he simply explains that he... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
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A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own
time at Berkshire Hathaway, but tells the Times that “I’m not building a Berkshire 2.0. I’m building something different using some of the principles.” Her classmate Andrew Van Pelt (MBA 2009) says her approach is also very different from how some expect View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
became an officer of the company in record time and was appointed a vice president within 15 years. Insurance was a clean industry, with gentlemen leaders. I liked the values. I lucked into a company firmly committed to developing human... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success
liberal arts education he received at Hamilton and now serves as chairman of its board of trustees. Kennedy says he has developed "an appreciation for a tolerable level of risk" in trying to decide which companies to underwrite at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
an entrepreneur, investor and inventor who has been working with sustainable housing and renewable energy since 2007. She is the immediate past CEO of BrainHeart Energy, the largest geothermal group in Sweden. She’s also an inventor who holds several patents on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley