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- 12 Feb 2024
- News
Dale LeFebvre to Receive Horatio Alger Award
he returned to school to concurrently pursue his Juris Doctor and MBA from Harvard Law and Harvard Business School. Leaving graduate school with $250,000 in debt, Mr. LeFebvre faced new View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
benevolent, educational, and religious, pecuniary profit not being the object,” according to its founding documents. Knowledge of one’s ancestors is considered essential in Mormonism; with the names of their relatives, the faithful can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
similar goal: advancing Brazil. André Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, made a significant personal donation to renovate Baker Hall, which... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Global Ambition
Vivian Kao and Shou Zi Chew (both MBA 2010) Vivian Kao and Shou Zi Chew (both MBA 2010) are a couple who often finish each other sentences. The two met over email in 2008... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
your marketing budget is stretched, you can get more bang for your buck by investing in certain aspects of the journey more than others,” De Freitas says. He advises maintaining a consistently positive or “building” experience: “The... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
back home and was being sent to HBS by his bankers, who believed there was more he could learn about accounting. Gaines-Cooper was an astute financier but had never attended university. The Rolls, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
treatment. “In theory they never have to ask another donor for a dollar. And I said, ‘I know what that looks like. Investing in promising early stage projects and having a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 09 Jan 2023
- News
Alumna Leads Biggest Ever Debut for a Woman-led Hedge Fund
"SurgoCap will use data science to invest around the theme of how technology can enhance other sectors such as financials, industrials, health care and enterprise data,... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
wellness and medical technology—always seeking to maximize financial returns while delivering social and environmental impact." During her time at Funk, she connected with the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
began in 1981. "My father offered me the opportunity to test the work environment in the Philippines at Ayala for a three-year trial period," he recalls. Although considering other options, Zobel took to his work at Ayala "like a fish to... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
is that I view people going into startups as essentially making an investment with their careers. And, if you look at the other side of the coin of who invests in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
today’s fastest digital supercomputers years to complete. Quantum computers will be able to carry out complex financial chores like pricing derivatives and optimizing portfolios in the blink of an eye. They... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
rate—the amount of waste that it recycles and composts—has for years lingered below 18 percent, a fraction of what some other major American cities have achieved. And DSNY has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
specializes in serving the financial needs of its venture-capital and start-up clients. “They weren’t sure what to do with their lives.” Four years later, venture capital is, at least, out of the rough. “We... View Details
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a... View Details