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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
he acquired the struggling firm of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Thus began Gordon’s 65-year career at Kidder, which he helped lead to prominence as one of the top underwriting and M&A firms in the world, while also imparting trusted financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
culture, technology, and economy to coevolve in unison under the rubric of an integral polity. Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth by Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997) (Wiley) This book is a roadmap to View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June
years of reunification. The conference theme, "Knowledge, Risk & Change: Business Without Walls," will give participants an opportunity to consider the future of business and financial institutions in an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
market so that the venture capitalists can cash out their investments. To have a stock market, you need reliable financial reporting, reputable auditing bodies, and an independent financial press. Creating... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
is another institution other than business and free enterprise that has done more good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
financial terms.” Obremskey’s firm, RHIA, on the other hand, is a social impact fund focusing on reproductive health to improve maternal care and combat rising maternal mortality in the U.S. Avestria invested with RHIA to develop a fetal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
change this, but it is about communication with people in a way that relates to them— we have to talk about solutions and innovations.” Democracy, she said, needs to be driven by the will of the people. Grantham said he looks toward View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
sign-up process is easy. Service members and veterans can validate their military service against a government database or a military financial institution catering to nine million military customers through... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
back even further, to his elementary school days, when he bought packages of light bulbs in bulk and sold them door-to-door in his neighborhood at slightly below retail prices. "I think I always wanted to have control over my future. We didn't have a lot of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
ten most innovative programs in the United States even though the program was then in its 66th session. In the MBA classroom, Crum offered courses in corporate finance, bank lending, financial institution... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
to his home country of South Africa and established Allan Gray Investment Counsel, a firm dedicated to meeting clients’ needs, including delivering superior returns through rigorous company research. While many financial View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
Malcolm Salter, consisted of four tracks: Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship; Business and Society; Financial Markets; and Leadership in Public and Private Organizations. The purpose of the conference, in Salter’s words, was to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Wall Street: From Managing Money to Saving Souls on the Streets of New York by Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In The Missionary of Wall Street, Auth shares dozens of riveting and often funny stories about ordinary... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World
mission of the University, and we are a far better institution for it,” Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers observed in his dinner speech. He then declared, “What HBS does in the next twenty years will be more important than... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Exploring Asia at the Crossroads
told the Harbus News. Cohosted by the Asia Business Club of HBS and the Asia Law Society of Harvard Law School, the conference kicked off with a Friday afternoon keynote speech by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and... 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 Calvert Foundation, a non-profit investing View Details