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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
advantage at Lehman was that I knew I wouldn’t stay there. I was planning to go back to San Francisco and work for my dad,” he explains. Hellman seemed to have a natural ability — he calls it genetic, given the legacy of banking in his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Accidental Pioneers
Sherwood came to HBS with the aim of being a securities analyst on Wall Street, but she graduated without a job offer. "I guess I picked the stodgiest firms to interview with, and Wall Street wasn't very open to women at the time," she says. A family friend in... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
down all the universities in the country for 10 years. In terms of education, it was a lost generation. Did you get a sense of people’s outlook toward the future? Under the new leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Currently all of the FTSE 100 companies have at least one woman on their boards, with 263 women holding director’s positions, 100 more than in 2011, according to a study by the Cranfield University School of Management. “We sat down and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
15 moratorium that shut down universities across the country to protest the Vietnam War. That demonstration brought Harvard University economist John Kenneth Galbraith to the HBS campus for a speech against... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
University before heading to HBS. His business thinking was influenced by faculty giants such as Georges Doriot, who taught industrial management and is widely considered the father of venture capital, and commercial View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
weeknights on www.shovio.com, with podcasts at www.radiochick.com. Tell us about life before RadioChick. I grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where my dad ran a construction-related business, which is probably how I got business in my blood. I went to Syracuse View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
was for a time the center of the universe for drug smugglers and celebrities in Miami. Farzad: I left to college in 1994. I grew up in Miami. I was born in Iran, we came to Miami just on the eve of the Iranian revolution because my aunt... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
companies and platoons, General Medina told him. He knew that world now. It’s hard to get out, the general explained. Plus, there were capital considerations. “How much money do you have in your bank account?” “You know, sir, I’ve got... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
work closely with local communities, both out of pragmatism and because it’s the right thing to do, an instructive example for U.S. companies as American public opinion sours on certain elements of the private sector. Saving capitalism from itself: View Details
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
client's home down the street. He first spotted Edgewater, a breathtaking estate on the banks of the Hudson River, during a weekend drive in the country. Jenrette was vacationing on St. Croix when he came across an old sugarcane... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes that made for more effective... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
from a natural catastrophe standpoint—and that's where people are moving and building. And so there's an increased concentration of property insurance exposure, in places that are more risky. And you know, if you have a home on the Outer View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
despite the fact that we were taxpayers, and in response to that, Historically Black Colleges and Universities were created. And HBCUs have been enormously powerful and profound in what they produced. We know that HBCUs have produced... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
investment bank Bpifrance’s incubator space “Le Hub,” where the three teams pitched their concepts before a panel of 11 HBS alumni judges and a crowd of more than 100 alumni, family and friends. In the end, Benoit Dupont (PLDA 20, 2016)... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Lauren Love (MBA '95) and Rena Clark (MBA '90). Harvard University professor Cornel West, author Les Brown, and David Steward, CEO of St. Louis based Worldwide Technologies, were featured speakers. A new element of this year's conference... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Albert J. Dobron, Jr. by Marguerite Rigoglioso "Been there; done that." That's what first came to Al Dobron's mind when he thought about getting involved in student government at HBS. But by his second semester, the former student leader from the View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
University Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Paulson Jr. During his 32 years at Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson rose through the ranks, becoming chairman and CEO in 1999, the year he... View Details