Charles Ellis - HBS Grad 1963 - Greenwich Associates

Charles “Charley” Ellis (Greenwich Associates), HBS 1963, founded Greenwich Associates, a strategy consulting firm focusing on financial institutions, in 1972.

The firm’s clients include commercial banks, investment banks, securities dealers, investment managers, and insurance companies in the U.S., Europe, and Japan.

Charley also holds a doctorate in finance and economics from New York University and has authored several books and articles on finance. He served as president of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts for over twenty years and has taught finance at Harvard Business School, Yale, and several other institutions.

He described his entrepreneurial experiences in an interview at HBS in October 2001. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management.


http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/charlesellis.html

Arthur Rock - HBS 1951 - Venture Capital Fund - 1961

Arthur Rock, HBS 1951, was one of America’s first venture capitalists.

He played a key role in launching Fairchild Semiconductor, Teledyne, Intel, Apple, and many other high-tech companies. He was a visionary who saw very early on the future of the computer industry and, in many ways, was a driving force in the emergence of Silicon Valley as a center of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Following an early career on Wall Street in investment banking, Arthur started his first venture capital partnership with Tommy Davis ten years after graduating from HBS. Between 1961 and 1968, Davis & Rock invested $3 million and returned $100 million to their investors.

Arthur shared his experiences as a venture capitalist and his insights into successful entrepreneurship during a video interview at his San Francisco office in March 2001. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management.

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Thomas Weisel - Thomas Weisel Partners LLC - HBS Grad 1966

Thomas “Thom” Weisel (Thomas Weisel Partners LLC), HBS 1966, helped launch a niche investment bank based in San Francisco designed to serve emerging-growth companies on the West Coast.

In the 1970s, the idea of an investment bank thriving outside of Wall Street was, as he puts it, “almost blasphemous.” Montgomery Securities became an integral part of the Silicon Valley story, however, and emerged as a top-tier investment bank. Montgomery merged with NationsBank in 1997.

Thom and several of his original team left soon after to launch Thomas Weisel Partners, which today thrives as a merchant bank for emerging companies.

Thom is also actively involved in competitive skiing and cycling, and has a wing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for his modern art collection.

He described his entrepreneurial experiences from his San Francisco office in March 2001. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management.

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Dean LeBaron - Founder - Batterymarch - HBS 1960,

Dean LeBaron (Batterymarch), HBS 1960, was with an investment services firm when he became interested in cutting-edge economic theories about portfolio management. One insight that captured his imagination was that a kind of complexity science based on computer models could be applied to portfolios to spread risk across many stocks with particular characteristics.

He launched Batterymarch to apply these concepts to real-world investing and was among the first to use computer models to manage investment portfolios.

Dean was also early to Latin America, the former Soviet Union, and China when investment opportunities opened there.

He described his entrepreneurial experiences in a video interview at his home in New Hampshire in February 2001. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management.

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William Donaldson Cofounder DLJ

The Honorable William “Bill” Donaldson (Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette), HBS 1958, was one of the founders of DLJ.

He saw that a new breed of institutional fund manager was emerging who would need higher quality research on firms’ projected stock price performance than was being offered on Wall Street at the time. DLJ was set up to meet that need. Bill also made sure the firm had a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and he later helped overturn regulations so DLJ could be the first investment bank to go public on the NYSE.

Bill went on to co-found Yale’s School of Management, to head the NYSE, and, among other leadership roles in business, philanthropy and academia, he was selected in 2001 to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission under President George W. Bush.

Bill described his experiences in a video interview in his office in Manhattan, March 2002.

Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management.

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Richard Jenrette Co-founder DLJ HBS Grad 1957

Richard “Dick” Jenrette (Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette), HBS 1957, was one the founders of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Dick brought skills in journalism as well as analysis to the partnership and helped establish a structure for the reports that soon set an industry standard. He also saw an opportunity to create an investment arm for DLJ, called Alliance Capital.

Dick stayed on with DLJ to lead it through several transitions, including going public and being sold to the Equitable. There he served as vice-chairman in charge of all of the investment subsidiaries. He also brought the Equitable public, the first firm in its industry to do so. Today, Dick restores historic old homes.

He described his experiences in a video interview at his home – the restored Baker House – in Manhattan in April 2002. Interviewer: Amy Blitz, HBS Director of Media Development for Entrepreneurial Management.

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Interview with Dan Lufkin of Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette

Dan Lufkin (Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette), HBS 1957, was one of the founders of DLJ. Among his early contributions to DLJ’s success was the idea of focusing on small high-growth firms rather than the blue chip stocks other analysts emphasized.

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http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurs/danlufkin.html