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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
His recent book, Elevated Economics: How Conscious Consumers Will Fuel the Future of Business, is his effort to explain the implications of this watershed moment—and help readers understand what it takes to succeed in the new economy it has created. READ MORE DM: You... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
he needs to travel to Estonia or attend a session of the UN General Assembly across town. The payoff? A chance to chart the digital future of an entire country. In April, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer e-Residency,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- News
Stopgap Schooling
traffic to his site had spiked 50%. ‘There are 1 billion children around the world who are suddenly out of school,’ he says. ‘We’re a stopgap.’” Based in Mountain View, California, Khan Academy had 18 million students using the site every... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
HBS faculty engage in a panel discussion in Beijing. A visit to China Merchant Bank will inform BGIE and other courses at HBS. When Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan first visited China in 1979, he traveled there with his wife... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Support for the Global Century
Robert F. Greenhill (MBA 1962), the founder and chairman of an investment banking firm with 13 offices across five continents, is acutely aware of the global nature of business in the 21st century. “As is the case in most companies today,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
ACCION's helm in 1994. You left Wall Street for ACCION. Why? During 4 a.m. leveraged-buyout marathons at KKR, I'd occasionally wonder if I might be doing something else, however small, that could help make the world a better place. At the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
floor of Merrill Lynch headquarters at Manhattan’s World Financial Center. As president of Merrill’s U.S. Private Client Group, O’Neal oversees sixteen thousand brokers — or financial advisors, as he calls them — in eight hundred branch... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Kiwi Star
WHINERAY: A national hero looks back. Photos by (L) Getty Images; (R) David White/ New Zealand Herald One of five brothers growing up in New Zealand during World War II, Sir Wilson Whineray (MBA 1969) experienced a childhood in which “the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
security and opportunities to give back to society. It brought to mind the words of his father, a World Bank economist and governor of the Federal Reserve System. Recalled Rice, “He wanted to change the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
In the high-powered, high-stakes world of mergers and acquisitions, Bruce Wasserstein is considered something of a legend. He was the wunderkind who helped make First Boston Corporation a leader in M&A in the early 1980s -- and then shook... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
hardest-hit Hatay Province of Turkey; Alper Gokgoz (MBA 2010), CEO of ING Bank in Turkey; and Yasemin Sirali (MBA 2006), director of sustainability for the FIBA group, who is based in Istanbul. Each panelist shared their perspective on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
chin goes back, like, ‘Really?’” — former supermodel Tyra Banks describing reaction to her enrollment in the OPM Executive Education program. (CBS Sunday Morning, March 6, 2011) “People often misunderstand ‘preparation’ to mean just... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
University, preceded by three years at sea on destroyers. I knew a lot about the Victory at Sea television series on World War II, and nearly as much about hunting submarines from a tossing destroyer in the North Atlantic, but what I knew... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
“I was incredibly nomadic, open to going wherever,” she recalls. A Luce Fellowship followed, offering Brooks the opportunity to settle in one spot for a while. She spent two years in Vietnam working with the International Finance Corporation of the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
been so relevant given the financial turmoil and distress in the world and the possibility that we could be reliving some sort of serious economic downturn. What’s wonderful about Graham and Dodd is that their advice is timeless. And it... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
her path through international sports and investment banking to becoming a leading advocate for women in sports and business. “I ran and led a leading football club in Turkey for over a decade. Then I joined the governing body in Turkey... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
Claudio (OPM 12, 1987) and Rosalie Haddad In 1998 Claudio Haddad (OPM 12, 1987) had achieved great success in a nearly 20-year banking career. He easily could have rested on his laurels, but instead, he left the View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
Little Feet in 2008. Intended to be a family’s last step in its adoption journey, Pathways, funded by Taylor and a group of donors, is essentially a private, interest-free, nonprofit bank providing loans of up to $7,500 for credit-worthy... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken