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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
for me coming out of HBS was that it can take time to curate your career. So many of my classmates went to New York to pursue investment banking or consulting. I took a job in operations in Chicago because, ultimately, I wanted to View Details
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Maha Malik
then a classmate will say something that makes me question how I've thought about something for years!" Her internship experiences reflect her twin interests. Last summer, she interned with the World Bank in Washington D.C. This... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
and we’ve just deployed the first few dozen of each of them. The first is a graduation loan. For many borrowers, it’s hard to get a formal bank loan that’s more than $1,200 but less than $10,000, so we’ve been identifying borrowers from... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
acres of land in southern Chile and run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for investors. Patagonia Sur planned to derive various streams of revenue from the land—including eco-tourism, sustainable land... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
has been consistent for years: involuntary turnover in sales organizations has remained at 13 percent, since peaking at 14.6 percent in 2009, and total turnover (involuntary and voluntary—i.e., retirements, moves, etc.) in both good and bad times View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
classmate David ‘Leron’ Anderson had been an analyst at First Boston. I was eating a Charles River po’boy at the Tasty in Harvard Square when he said, ‘You should try this investment banking stuff.’ I knew nothing about it. Zero.” No Plan... View Details
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Esteves Hall | About
bachelor’s degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and went on to found BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America. With roots in Brazil, BTG Pactual has had an impact not only throughout Latin America but... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
of some $65 billion and their number and the amount invested are growing quickly (more than a fourfold increase in the past 3 years) 279 More funds mean more competition, and some funds are now closing. Investment banks View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- Web
Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
$120 million redevelopment initiative completed in 2005. The Tennessee Aquarium—a soaring, impressive glass-and-brick structure—stands on the banks of the Tennessee River, now lined with high-end condominiums. People bike and stroll... View Details
- 04 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered
stories of what it was really like to build their businesses. The stories were open, honest, and even entertaining. Running to the bank during graduation in a cap and gown to cash a check so employees got... View Details
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
godlike powers or is putting you on. But there are patterns over time. For example, countries that are running large and ongoing current account deficits tend to see their currencies depreciate over time. This doesn't mean that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have really no bank accounts and no... View Details
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Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus
is located right on the banks of the Charles River, which provides great trails for walking or running while taking in the local scenery. For round-trip distances along the shoreline, download the Charles... View Details
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Morgan Hall | About
added. A central atrium with light wells runs lengthwise through the 117,707-square-foot building with a unique focal point: a fourth-century Roman mosaic of the Greek sea goddess Tethys set into the floor inside the front entrance. About... View Details