Development Banks - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2010
News

Leslie Gold

right. After HBS and a year at Burlington Industries, I bought Bishop Manufacturing Company, a medium-sized, high-volume, custom-window manufacturer. I was 20-something and had no money, but armed with my HBS pedigree, a presentation, and a good line of BS, I walked... View Details

Keywords: Talk Radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

performance. In an ever fast-changing world, it is important to keep abreast with how people around the world tackle finance-related issues and the experiences they go through. Saad Hashmi Associate Corporate Relationship Mangaer at HSBC View Details

Career Coach

Phil Wong

Phil (Caltech ‘05, HBS ‘10) is currently the CFO and co-founder of Sevi Health, a healthcare startup on a mission to simplify primary care in the US. His role at Sevi focuses on acquiring clinics, integrating housing and healthcare for seniors living in senior... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

what all those employees, who call themselves "athenistas," will be doing: improving health care efficiency and quality by connecting doctors, hospitals, and patients. For decades now, EHRs—computerized versions of those banks of manila... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

focus.” Wilson switched his course of study from physics to philosophy to math. But he found some direction through Howard Raiffa, a statistics professor who was moving over to HBS to develop a program in what would come to be known as... View Details

Career Coach

Jonathan Shepherd

Jonathan is CPD's Corporate Relations Director overseeing principal investing: VC/PE, investment management and real estate. Since 2007, he has coached thousands of students & alumni and forged recruiting relationships with hundreds of firms across these... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

country in pieces, the residents of Mikrus adopted wooden-framed screen-printing machines that could be constructed—and quickly broken down—from everyday materials. Elsewhere in the country, a chemist had developed a process to produce... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Sep 2007
News

Riding It Out

20, 2007, while Gisholt, Minard, and their three young daughters were waiting in line for Test Track, an auto-testing simulation that advises riders to “Strap yourself in to race up bumpy terrain, roar through hairpin turns, speed into freezing cold chambers, and rush... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

for each patient, developing bundled prices for the full care cycle, integrating care across separate facilities, expanding geographic reach, and building an enabling IT platform. The transformation to value-based health care is well... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

announced a small profit. Do you think this is giving heart to other online businesses? A: Priceline failed in the grocery business. But I'm not sure I would develop much out of that [the profit]. There are plenty of profitable online... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

through all our finances.He went around to different banks and, and he went around to different, areas and talked to people about us. JH: During the development of the new chapel, Bob became a regular... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

to approach business relationships—and life—with an open mind and a readiness to learn from everyone. Lisa Carnoy (MBA 1994), managing director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch New York, New York Courage. Perhaps because we're not as bound... View Details

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

sports leagues might reduce their dependence on third-party data feeds such as Sportradar’s, prefering to develop data services in-house. Thus, CEO Carsten Koerl believed the company needed to branch into sports media, not merely... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2018
News

My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

grown up in the business all of my career, and when I finished college and came back I was a full-time employee for the first time. After a year or so I was promoted to work under my dad as one of the department managers. And within a few months I realized that I was... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

once-in-a-lifetime chance to be part of the Olympics - as among their reasons for taking on the ACOG challenge. "Along with the sense of pride and place," says Frazier, an Atlanta native who returned home after nine years at the First National View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1998
News

Managing the Business of Life

Glover-Stapleton Associates, Inc., which focuses on developing environmental health and safety management systems for companies worldwide in industries as diverse as manufacturing, medicine, and financial services. They moved back to... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Loews Corp., Michigan State University, Cornell University’s Hotel School, Bank of Hawaii, HR Spinner, the NCAA, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles illustrate how effective teams drive progress in business, associations, and education. The six... View Details

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

intern with us, and at the time we were doing business development, someone had set us up with a meeting at a bank. So we go to this meeting, and I clearly present myself as the CEO and founder, and I present my male classmate as my business View Details

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

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