Analysts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1998
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Devtosh Khare

with the herd and went into banking." But after two years working 100-hour weeks as an investment analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (DLJ) in Los Angeles, he decided that "moving money around is not what life... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Mar 2025
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Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

24 Apr 2014
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Boutique workouts brought to the busiest people, at home

As a former investment banking analyst and private equity associate, Prita Kumar (MBA 2014) knows what it means to be busy—so busy, in fact, that it was nearly impossible to incorporate the boutique fitness classes she cherished into her... View Details

29 Jan 2021
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Holding Business to Account

Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) was an analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston. Among her investments was Albertsons, a rapidly expanding... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Swimming with the Stream

some point.” Release day Old Model: Use videos to build buzz New model: Use videos to make sales When she was working as a digital analyst at Interscope Records before HBS, Gandhi identified a common pattern: Labels would first release a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

11 Jul 2013
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The Good Writer

of the European Common Market in 1792. Before HBS, he worked as an M&A analyst at Morgan Stanley. In the summer between his first and second years, he worked as a summer intern at Cineplex Odeon in his native Toronto, and then upon... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 May 2014
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(Re)moving the Needle

years as an analyst at Susquehanna International Group, Anquetil began launching a series of medical technology companies. The first, in 2006, was Aretais, Inc., which developed a continuous, accurate, non-invasive blood glucose monitor... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; medical technology; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

combine his undergraduate training as an industrial engineer with his business knowledge to become a securities analyst specializing in the chemical, drug, and paper industries. He then managed Rothschild's research department, viewing... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2000
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Slam Dunk

cultural center for 25 years," influencing youth fashion, lifestyle, and music. These elements will also be a big part of HoopsTV, thus presenting a variety of revenue opportunities. O'Neil has signed on some big names (such as basketball View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Four Promoted to Full Professor

publications, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. His paper "Investing in Distressed Situations" received the... View Details

05 Aug 2015
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Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good

further through the rigors of the case method: “You become very used to speaking publicly and defending your ideas,” she says. When Brackenridge graduated from HBS, she worked as a marketing analyst at DuPont. “I wouldn’t have been hired... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

anywhere. A little serendipity, a passion for making a difference, and degrees in computer science, math, and engineering (plus his MBA) brought him to this point. After HBS, Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston when a young... View Details

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

accidental, as Khan relates in his TED Talk from 2011. TED Talk: I was an analyst at a hedge fund and I was in Boston and I was tutoring my cousins in New Orleans remotely. And I started putting the first YouTube videos up, really just as... View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes

Heightened surveillance overall is essential. As for reforms, one step would be to require that securities analysts be genuinely independent of the investment banking side of the firms they work for. Profits on the investment banking side... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

think of the different constituencies as investors or financial analysts -- you have to level with them so that they trust you. Because just as in business, you're going to have a rough stretch now and then, so you want to be able to keep... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

Folarin Gdabedo-Smith. Though she anticipated her job would be researching and designing policy recommendations, Rewane quickly found herself engaged in the human resources realm, recruiting and building capacity for the organization. “I spent months focused on... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014

Research: Past, Present, and Future by Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy (Stanford Economics and Finance) Professors Groysberg and Healy discuss the analysts who do equities research and demonstrate how their roles have evolved, what... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

occurred," he recalls. A friend who had gone to work for Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) suggested he interview for a defense systems analyst position at the Pentagon. From 1965 to 1969, Rossotti was one of McNamara's... View Details

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