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- 01 Jul 2013
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The Nature of Business
learned at Harvard and at Goldman Sachs," he recalled. "Viewing nature through the lens of basic business principles—maximize returns, invest in your assets, manage your risks, diversify, and promote innovation—can open the door for... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Ronnie and Larry Ackman (MBA 1963) and produced by New York public broadcaster WNET. The three episodes in the series premiered on WNET and are now being offered to some 400 business schools in the United States and Great Britain “in hope... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates sustainability factors and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
As a junior Episcopal minister, Bob Massie (DBA 1989) infuriated church leaders by revealing to his congregation that its $9 million endowment was secretly invested in a number of unchurchly entities, including military contractors,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
market is emerging, new products have been introduced, new trading platforms have been launched, institutions participating in the market have been strengthened, and there is greater public awareness of the critical role capital markets... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
as it took off. Once they landed in the United Kingdom in the dead of winter, the family found themselves with nothing, shivering in their summer clothes. “We lived in public housing and had very little money, but we still had more than... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Peter Arkle Venture capitalist. Spoken aloud, those two words have a ring of authority that seems to lift the profession above the realm of mere mortals. Headlines can confirm that otherworldly aura, with some View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- News
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George
Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George “We made a legacy gift so that our contributions will continue after our deaths,” says William W. “Bill” George (MBA 1966) of the planned gift he and his wife, Penny, established to invest in students’... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
CFO in 1996. “We took that company from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars in capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company in the United... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
development in Louisiana, a prime vantage point at the intersection of the public and private sectors that allowed him to “envision a future state and bring it to life.” In his new role at VEDP, he was in the midst of developing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) After three decades working with executives in scores of private and public companies, Wellspring Capital Management CEO William F. Dawson Jr. (MBA 1991) is convinced that “the most successful business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
On October 19, the School conferred its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on seven distinguished individuals. Since 1968, the School has selected outstanding men and women for the award, recognizing their accomplishments in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says the factory requires less... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details