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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
capital markets. In terms of opportunities for people. In terms of how business could actually create opportunity and hope for people who needed it. White: It was during your time here at HBS, that you traveled to Afghanistan. How did... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
producer, if you can maintain the rights, or have a pool of capital at your disposal, or both, you are ahead of the game.” Zee and the other alums interviewed for this article agree that it’s become more difficult over the past ten to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
their capital commitments to the firm’s next fund. ABRY’s fourth fund raised $780 million; its fifth could potentially reach $4 billion. Is this a problem? In the case, Yudkoff describes his belief that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
crisis. The program featured speakers Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at HBS, and Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), who talked about their latest books, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, and IMPACT:... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
we are doing really counts.” With a mission “to empower women to become economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship,” CWE provides education, training, technical assistance, and access to capital to women who want... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Paris, and gut-wrenching loss, all before Lewis shockingly commandeers a multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate and leads it with aplomb. You ’ll learn how she dealt with her husband’s untimely death at the age of 50 and how she managed to View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
While Maj acted publicly on behalf of the Student Committee of Solidarity, organizing lectures and raising funds, among other activities, his underground publishing efforts continued in the squat blue residence hall known as Mikrus—“very... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
approach. The authors draw on years of research and teaching to deliver a truly interactive learning experience. The case studies cover all areas of corporate finance, including capital structure, financing needs, and project and company... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
people that resided there and what life was like, but also about this man named Shah, who had raised a militia, and was really terrorizing that valley, and ruling it with an iron fist. And so our goal, our mission, was to fly helicopters... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell and this is the third and final episode of “Out of the Valley,” a Skydeck mini-series that explores the past, present, and future of entrepreneurship. We started in the whaling... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Olympic committee staff and volunteers; 35 new or modified venues; 35 training sites; 8 Olympic villages; 11.2 million tickets; and 750,000 nights' worth of accommodations. But perhaps the most significant number of all has been the $1.7 billion ACOG has had to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
Reunion gift committee and chaired the Capital Campaign the School held from 2002 to 2005, an effort that raised some $600 million. From 1998 to 2004, he was a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
look at ways in which the main agriculture challenges in the country were being addressed by both the government and foreign donors. I was knee-deep in documents, sitting outside on a typically breezy, eerily silent Kigali evening. As I read through the reports, my... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
create at least one venture within 10 to 20 years of graduating 1,300+ cases on entrepreneurship 150 first-year students participate in Startup Bootcamp #1 PitchBook Rankings (2021) + Female founders + Founder count + Company count + View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
entrepreneur into a successful business leader. In this book, Jan Simon, Managing Partner of Vonzeo Capital and Academic Director of the International Search Fund Center at IESE Business School, presents a best-practices-based roadmap for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
existing railway and new light rail network. Finally, the Asian Development Bank has agreed to a $650 million loan to cover capital costs for electrification of an initial 110-kilometer railway line running through Colombo from the... View Details