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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
nonprofit international development organization that he has chaired for the past decade. While he now draws a firm line between business and public service, the skills he uses in each realm overlap tremendously. Many of those skills —... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign wealth... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
companies with annual revenues exceeding $85 billion. Under Schwarzman’s leadership, the firm has diversified into hedge funds, real estate, corporate debt, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. In late March, Blackstone surprised... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
director of SG Barr Devlin, a New York firm that provides strategic and financial advice to clients in the electricity and gas industries. Barr, the foundation’s president and a poet in his own right, has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Sunny's MBA
back-country experience—"a rite of passage," Verghese calls it. For their part, Olam executives have dubbed it "Sunny's MBA." "Spending time in a tough geography, up in the bush, actually managing the risks firsthand, not learning about them in a classroom," is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in old-line, inefficiently managed... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
future relationships. B2B firms that make special accommodations for customers in need today could reap the benefits of long-term loyalty. As an example, wedding website theknot.com is providing financial... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
sustainability. “We strongly believe in the appeal of a strategy that achieves the goals of both purely financial investors and mission-driven investors, as it allows us to access more capital and have a greater impact,” explains Hoffer.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Paul A. Gompers, Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. A member of both the Finance and the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
to "share the blessings that my family has been given." A 1969 graduate of Harvard College, Lumry is president of Acorn Ventures, Inc., in Bellevue, Washington, a firm that provides seed capital, financial... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Breyer Elected to Harvard Board
Jim Breyer (MBA 1987), a leading venture capitalist known for his expertise in innovative technology and media, has been elected to join the President and the Harvard Corporation as of July 1. Breyer is a partner at Accel Partners, a venture capital View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
“We cover the financial community as our beat,” says CNBC president and CEO Pamela Thomas-Graham (MBA ’88/JD’89). “So in many ways the terrorist attacks felt very personal to us as a news organization.” After doing a headcount to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Cathy Barrera (PHDBE 2014), cofounder of the economic consulting firm Prysm Group, was looking for something new to do. She had just left a tenure-track position at Cornell, where her research focused on the intersection of economics and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
feature prominent business and financial leaders; the Community Partners program, which provides pro bono management consulting to New York-area nonprofits; and financial aid for students entering HBS. An... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical mishap involving housing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
career services, curriculum development, executive education, alumni relations, and publishing,” says David Lampe, the School’s executive director of Marketing and Communications. The survey, developed and administered with the help of the independent View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Two HBS Alumni to Lead Carlyle Group
who has been with the firm since 1995, began in the leveraged-buyout group, and has also served as interim chief financial officer, chief operating officer and president. Lee joined Carlyle in 2013 as deputy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
require listed firms to have a majority of independent directors and mandate compensation committees to be entirely composed of outside directors. The exchanges also require firms to get shareholder approval... View Details