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- 01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
private sector, for one, do more. “There is a responsibility, particularly in a global economy, for corporations to invest in educating children around the world,” she says. “A lot of the insecurity in the world stems from populations...
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- 15 Nov 2023
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Sound Investment
by the Fisk University choir. Rogers’ purchase of the property was influenced by its history: In 1929, white property developers forced seven Black families to give up the land where the church now sits. The Daily Northwestern reports...
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- 05 Jun 2013
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Resisting The Temptation To 'Win' When Investing
- 01 Jun 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Tanzania. Now based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ngoyi finds her global experience is a good fit with her current role. In May 2022, she was named CEO of the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA). A $670 million investment fund and...
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- 25 Nov 2019
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Harvard Nears Selection of Allston Development Partner
- 01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
1619 and 1628. Cumbo was one of the first African men to own land in the colonies. Kearns also discovered he is the great-great-great-great-great grandson of Johannes Schmierer, who immigrated from central Europe to North America in 1755,...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Bridging the ESG Data Gap
Megan Murday The idea for a digital platform to help venture capitalists calculate, benchmark, and improve portfolio ESG performance crystallized while Megan Murday (MBA 2021) was studying at HBS. Now the CEO of the software startup Metric, she says that “investors...
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Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy
aviation to the HBS curriculum and laid the foundation for the Baker Library Collection on the Business Aspects of Aviation, which includes the William A.M. Burden Papers, aviation investment analyses that Burden prepared in the 1930s. If...
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Linda Kush
- 30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE
second year, when I was looking for a job as a commercial and investment banker, I would look at their policies for nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all did, so that’s where I applied. I...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Engaging Students More Deeply
landing page with text, photos, interactive graphs, and video clips. In class discussions, Greenwood can see that many students have dug more deeply into the key questions than they might have with a print case. “You can’t just skim a...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
4 million people graduate into the insurance market every year and spend four to five years in this phase, in which they aren’t buying traditional assets. Surround aims to land these customers early by offering products that no one else...
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- 23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the Charles River, an Enterprise Research Campus that will include two lab buildings, a University conference center, a hotel, and two residential towers, is projected to come online by the end of the decade, according to Carl Rodrigues, CEO of the Harvard Allston...
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- 15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds
By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart people, with what sound like good...
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April White
- 24 May 2017
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Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
Head of Global Energy Group, Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) 2002 Named Global Head, CSFB Investment Banking Division 2004 Named CSFB Chief Client Officer 2006 Launches Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) 2009 GIP acquires Gatwick...
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Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro
"Usually I land on the other side of the canyon without a problem, but sometimes I've had to hang on by my fingertips." In making such entrepreneurial vaults, he draws on ample reserves of confidence, conviction, and foresight. Explains...
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Daniel Penrice
- 01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
investment banking institution had a staff of 110 and annual revenues of about $8 million. Today, the firm has more than 64,000 employees in offices stretching from New York to Beijing. Revenues last year totaled more than $26 billion,...
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- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
million of venture capital. Working with him was extraordinary: intense and energetic.” Over the next couple of years, NextDoor Networks raised nearly $38 million in venture capital investment before the dot-com bust of March 2000; by the...
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