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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Guy de Chazal: Changing Focus
putting too much faith in innovative companies with exciting ideas but untried management. "At Morgan Stanley, we're back to basics: We look for young companies that have the advantage of entering a potentially large market before the competition. View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
Download Jonathan Nelson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Providence, Rhode Island 1977 Earns BS, Economics, Brown University 1977 Joins Wellman International to work in China 1983 Earns MBA 1983... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at Blyth Eastman PaineWebber, he became a partner in corporate View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
Laureate Eugene Fama that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles. Greenwood and his colleagues used stock return data gathered from a variety of US industries and a gamut of international stock market sectors. They analyzed 40... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Entrepreneurial Finance elective in the MBA curriculum. In the Executive Education Program, he has developed materials for and served as codirector of courses in Conflict and Evolution in Private Equity,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Iron Lady
OTEH: “Local and international investors need to understand that things have changed” in Nigeria. On the fiftieth anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, one key player who wants to see the oil-rich country truly fulfill its promise is... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
clear you can raise $4 billion for your next fund instead of the planned $1 billion. Professor of Management Practice Nabil N. El-Hage coauthored the case with HBS professor and Finance unit head Richard Ruback. “The case highlights some... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
both partners write personal finance columns for Reuters’ India Web site and for the Wall Street Journal’s Indian partner, livemint.com. They appear on two TV shows every weekend: Bloomberg UTV’s Smart Money and ET Now’s Investor’s Guide.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also delayed his family’s ability to... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
MBAxAmerica (mbaxamerica.com) by the students, it's more like a rolling summer job with an entrepreneurial focus and a dash of pro bono consulting, built around visits to seven high-potential companies in the American heartland. Making... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian investors who View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
that the Bank has an indispensable development role: to help finance and assist the desperately poor countries that seldom see private capital. But he also believes the institution must justify its continued existence through superior... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
attractive place to invest. The investment and venture capital cycle is continuously changing, and one of the most fascinating internal discussions is often around where we’re in the cycle. When you first evaluated Facebook three years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and... View Details