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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
includes shopping malls, retail stores, real estate, wind energy, and banks. Working alongside his son, Murat (MBA ’03), and daughter, Aysecan (a Stanford MBA), Özyeğin has tireless energy and regularly works 10-hour days. “I’m still a...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many...
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- 15 May 2012
- News
Finally Finding the Right Fit
Heffernan: From one who's tried on many hats, a tip of the cap to HBS. Photo courtesy Andrew Heffernan As a young man in Dublin, Ireland, Andrew Heffernan (MBA 2006) worked in a variety of summer jobs with the family business, the country’s largest retailer. But View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of...
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
communities." Today, the WWB network provides financial services in more than forty countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At the same time, this global organization helps microfinance institutions and View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
lifetime of use,” says Hagemann. “It’s not really about selling jewelry,” says Hagemann. “It’s really about focusing on an industry that has for so long been allowed to use the planet as a bank that it will continue to borrow from and...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
former U.S. naval officer, Mendell was a Baker Scholar at HBS. He and his wife, Andrea, have two children. Linda S. Oubré (MBA '84), a native of Los Angeles, is director and division president of BriteSmile, Inc., a specialty retailer...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Internet Tsunami
had operating profits of $1.9 million on sales of $4 million. Mikitani, formerly a banker at the Industrial Bank of Japan, became a man with a mission after attending HBS: He founded Rakuten, he told the magazine, because "I wanted to set...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Evergreen Business
countryside, of yelling ‘Timberrrr!’ as daddy cuts down a tree.” It’s the same impulse that led Kok to buy the farm in 1980. A former EPA chief economist who now heads the investment banking firm Johan Hekelaar, Kok was looking for a...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
of them from Rwanda. A local Nigerian factory, Kaldi Africa, roasts the beans to produce a stronger brew than what Starbucks pours. Many of the other barriers to developing a coffeehouse culture that Dozie has encountered are simple View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow, and View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Rethinking Housing in the Motor City
thinking ‘where is the best opportunity going to be for me professionally?—I couldn’t move back to Detroit,” Rhea says. Instead, he went into finance in New York. After the financial collapse he left banking for a position as chairman and...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
the "disaggregation" of financial services. "For example," he said, "mutual funds rather than banks now provide many types of services." The cumulative effect on households is that individuals must now make major financial decisions...
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Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment bank in Brazil. As they acquired diverse assets, the trio transformed the Brazilian economy,...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the...
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- 20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online
from fraud, yet simple enough for users to validate their status in a matter of seconds. Hall and Thompson's solution to this problem is Troop ID, a digital ID card that links an email address and password to a person's military credentials the way PayPal connects...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
came up with the CarLotz concept, were friends and former investment banking colleagues. After some HBS networking, the two found Montgomery, who was working in McKinsey & Company’s automotive practice and had previous experience running...
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