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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
Group to provide management assistance to minority business owners. Later, with the support of Sealed Air and his wife, Joan, a former English professor, he pledged to fund a college education for students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is now based in Los Angeles, where... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
limits The result has been explosive growth in the activist investing world. More than 500 activist hedge funds managed in excess of $140 billion at the end of June, an increase of 18 percent in just the... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
artists to fund a variety of projects, ranging from major site-specific installations to endeavors that support the entire creative ecosystem, such as the international professional journal for curators, The Exhibitionist. Evans, who... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at Samsung Electronics. Cookies... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
support from the alumni network. "All we usually read about is some whiz kid in California whose new app has made him millions," notes Fred Braun (MBA 1959), president of Workman Fund in Leavenworth, Kansas. "Perhaps the report the... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
nonprofit business and economics institution in Brazil. The Insper Institute of Education and Research, he says, aims to address the shortage of prepared leaders. “Many of our problems [in Brazil] stem from microeconomics,” he says. “We need better leadership and View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Committed To HBS’s Success
who participate in them. “The School faces tough competitors,” says Tukman, president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management Inc. “Great as it is, HBS is only as good as its faculty and its students. If one wishes to help ensure the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2017
- News
Building from Buffett's Advice
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Fellowship Dinner Brings Students and Donors Together
donors, recipients, and guests. Crane, a Robert K. & Myra H. Kraft Financial Aid Fund recipient, spoke on behalf of the eight hundred students in the MBA Classes of 2002 and 2003 who have received financial aid through fellowships. He was... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
hadn't really thought about this problem until he visited Peru and noticed that hardly anybody there wore glasses. Back at HBS, in Associate Professor Stefan Thomke's elective course Managing Product Development, Houghton started... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
currently have an incentive to keep money abroad. A temporary holiday of the repatriation tax coupled with the tax on excess cash holdings would help ensure that the disgorged cash would be used productively in the United States. Coupling these policies provides a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Fearless Force for Change
fund research and clini-cal trials. Jen died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December 2004, Linn endured chemotherapy and surgeries during the initial phase of her treatment, a... 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... View Details
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Claire Freidman
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I spent five years working in finance. My clients were entertainment companies and I knew I wanted to switch careers and work on the operations or strategic side of one of these companies. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A New Day for Fellowships
Professor Andrew McAfee’s Managing in the Information Age class. Burns was among several dozen HBS graduates from the 1950s and 1960s who came to campus in April for a pilot program called “Fellowship Day.” After attending classes,... View Details
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Robert Leke
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? An MBA at HBS was important in providing the opportunity for me to step back, assess my current capabilities, and develop the additional skills I lacked to become a successful manager in... View Details