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01 Dec 2004
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Clubs Offer Popular Management Programs

Charlotte, North Carolina, where Socarras is vice president for sales and marketing at Afton Village, a mixed-use real estate development company. “It was a pretty intense course, a lot of work, but I invested in something I really... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2012
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Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone

booms, plateaus, and shake-ups in global finance —and now, a new generation of future business leaders are benefiting from his extensive experience. After graduating from HBS, Roscini, formerly a nuclear engineer, entered the world of View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Sep 2017
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Case Study: Confidence Builder

collaborated with doctors and college students to produce information on sexual and mental health topics that was both accurate and interesting to young women. But as the Confi team talked with students about subjects such as... View Details

Keywords: April White; Confi; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
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Student Real Estate Champs

A team of six MBA students from HBS won the fourth annual National Real Estate Challenge, held at the University of Texas in November. Teams from sixteen MBA programs spent two days evaluating a case involving an investment in a high-end... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Real Estate

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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. An active account can be used to download the Capital IQ excel... View Details

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

mistakes, and all the while they fed it books, dictionaries, the Bible, encyclopedias, everything. They tested it, endlessly, reinforcing the methods that had led to correct answers and amending the mistakes, which meant tweaking the algorithms View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

who is founder and managing partner at Aragon Global Management (AGM), a Chicago-based hedge fund that focuses on global equities. “There is a much higher return on investment in early childhood. It’s more expensive to intervene later and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

has taught in numerous other HBS Executive Education programs. Foley is also a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Corporate Finance and International Trade and Investment Programs. “I am eager to embark on... View Details

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Kraft Accelerator

approaches How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research Harvard Business Review Discover the three investment models to consider Get ready to get innovative. See what you can do now to accelerate your progress. The... View Details

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Biotech and medical devices: Company Data and Analysis

Insights & Industry Analytics - Tracks global venture capital, angel investment, private equity, M&A, and IPO activity related to private companies and emerging spaces. Pitchbook - Information on companies, deals, funds, investors... View Details

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Anddria Clack

variety of industries. How has your overall Harvard Business School experience shaped your goals & career path? All of the resources at Harvard Business School are designed to help you make more informed and thoughtful decisions about... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

May 2018 (Revised June 2018)
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Cowen Inc.: Leveraging Data

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott and Annelena Lobb

Cowen Inc.’s broker-dealer, Cowen and Company, LLC, boasted a number of analysts who had made prescient stock calls on the basis of creative data analysis. Now Cowen Inc. had opened a new subsidiary, Kyber, which would attempt to monetize new data science products.... View Details

Keywords: Data Science; Equity Research; Research Analysts; Investment; Analytics and Data Science; Equity; Research; Analysis; Competitive Strategy

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01 Dec 2004
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HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report

2.8 percent to a total of $294 million. Commenting on the results, HBS chief financial officer Richard P. Melnick (MBA ’92) notes, “The combination of tight fiscal discipline and renewed revenue growth across the School allowed us to make important View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Oct 2019
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Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa

operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

with Matthew P. Burkley and Alexandre Scherer (both MBA 1998). “I think you can do a lot as a student. There’s less formal pressure because you haven’t taken in investment or signed on people. You are much more able to experiment. We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

collisions with other trains, loose rails, and fires in wooden cars occurred with some frequency in the first decades of the railroads. But the industry soon grew more organized and invested in extensive track and bridge construction.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information; Information; Information; Information

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Climate Solutions, Transition Risk, and Stock Returns

By: Shirley Lu, Edward J. Riedl, Simon Xu and George Serafeim

Using large language models to measure firms' climate solution products and services, we find that high-climate solution firms exhibit lower stock returns and higher market valuation multiples. Their stock prices respond positively to events signaling increased demand... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Generative Ai; Large Language Models; Climate Finance; Climate Change; Innovation and Invention; Environmental Sustainability; AI and Machine Learning; Investment; Financial Markets

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01 Dec 2014
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The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships

out into the world. An investment in their leadership potential, and in their potential to make a difference, has far-reaching impact—on the students and on society more broadly. “Fellowships enable the diversity of perspectives that is... View Details

Keywords: fellowships

01 Dec 2004
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A Case of Achievement

hired to jump-start a moribund division of the investment bank. Parson’s success at generating business was offset by performance reviews from supervisors and subordinates that painted him as a poor fit in the firm’s collaborative... View Details