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- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
private equity, eventually left Lehman to join Oakhill Partners in 1990, and then cofounded an independent investment banking advisory firm, Evercore Partners, in 1995. And while Offensend was building his career in finance, he also stayed in touch with the nonprofit... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had it in certain capacities. I... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
working for an investment management firm in Boston. He then served as the Chairman of the Board of the investment management company I started in Boston nine years later. Professor Salmon constantly amazed me with his ability to ask the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
styles. Part of my role on a sailboat during college was to be a sounding board for my partners, keeping them calm and in their best state of mind to sail their fastest and forget about mistakes quickly. Each of my partners had very... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
recruiting,” he says. “I got a deep appreciation for how much impact two years of business school can have on someone’s trajectory. And, beyond that, I saw how much impact senior leaders could have; and not just within their organizations, but also outside in their... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Capital Management, a $20 billion family of mutual funds, she is also a board member of other for-profit and nonprofit entities. Among them is the Global Heritage Fund, which Cohen chairs, an organization that advises Third World... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
businesses. He had a long association with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City and currently serves on the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Kiechel lives with his wife, Eugenia Dunstan, and their son in Hoboken,New Jersey;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
a record of racist or misogynist or homophobic tendencies. Boards of directors afflicted by conflict or indifference will sometimes look the other way at the actions of their management teams. All of this, of course, is unacceptable. And,... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
European consumer products business. In her first Bulletin interview in 1983, Dodi envisioned the future ideal of "a pregnant CEO of a corporation walking into a board meeting" while her other child was down the hall in daycare. But she... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC Asia Pacific; Former Chairman, HSBC India; Founder and Chairman, India Sanitation Coalition Take a memo: “My mother used to ask my sister and me to fetch our father from... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
we don't see a lot of them. This will give them a reason to get out and come join us. We even have one of the founding members of the club, Tom DeBrooke (MBA 1970), who is on our board and very active here in San Antonio. He's a great... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
college, in the summer, I decided to become a waitress up in Ogunquit, Maine. And I was able to get room and board near the beach and mostly serve lobster dinners. I was taking the orders and I was putting them into the kitchen and my... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
integrity. Mühlemann: Arrogance and greed are bad advisors. Gadiesh: First, no rug is big enough to sweep problems under indefinitely. If things are going wrong, stay humble enough to admit it and listen to the people who might know how to fix them. Second, for View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
perspective, he says the 2008 crisis can be seen through the lenses of bad beliefs and bad incentives—the latter being the idea that there was a common understanding of risk in the financial system, but people were motivated to ignore the evidence. “Across the View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (where she continues to serve as a board member), Diniz had already launched a consulting business but was ready to move on. “I’m very results-oriented, very practical,” she says. “I wanted to invest... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
heartened to see that many of our alumni are leading these efforts. In my own work, I have observed growing interest from boards of directors in tackling environmental issues as well as the tremendous social challenges of racial equity... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
testing in Canada, and how Canadian hospitals handled surges and so on,” says club president Kazi Ahmed “It was a great opportunity for our club to strengthen our relationship with the Cleveland Clinic.” According to the club’s board... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
billion in projects that include Gatwick Airport and the Port of Melbourne. “You should always be inquisitive and progressing in your career,” he says, describing this latest chapter as “a tremendous amount of fun.” Why HBS? “I dropped math in View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Alumni Association Executive Council, as a member of the HBS Visiting Committee, and (currently) as a member of the HBS Publishing Corporation's board of directors. A Research Bonanza The Center is still new, but it has already taken on a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
inspiration boards with images ranging from playful to sexy to Brooklyn, to get a better sense of the brand Jess Deckinger describes as “warm and fuzzy,” and “a cooler way to do dating.” As the meeting ends, one designer sums up the... View Details
Keywords: April White