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- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
that unit. Gibbs and the family he left behind never strayed far from Kim’s mind as he returned home and pursued a career in private equity, first as principal at Butler Capital in New York and later as global co-head of investor... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
notes that HBS Ventures generated more than $80,000 for the SA this academic year. "By subsidizing items like yearbooks, as well as social events and intramurals, those funds cut students' costs dramatically." During his tenure, Mitchell... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
a report on the HBS Latin America Research Center), Latin America is an evolving, untapped market of vast potential, formidable challenges, and many fascinations. MORE A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens In the 1980s, democracy-oriented governments... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
long haul? The essays in this bilingual volume discuss this question in four interrelated themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well-being, and culture, belief, and practice. The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed by... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
consequences of our actions—not only for financial and physical capital but also for human, social, and natural capital.” HBS Professor George Serafeim discusses impact-weighted accounts during the first virtual talk in the HBS Club of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Consultant at McKinsey & Co., served as moderator. The panel pointed out that only 2.7% of venture capital money goes to female founders. “People cannot believe the percentage is so low,” says Greub, adding that the predominantly male... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
sustainability, values alignment, and impact, creating a market that has grown almost 25 percent since 2014; it now represents $23 trillion in assets globally. “The potential to deploy capital to obtain financial returns while also doing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
lives for market capitalism (the capitalism that, in the name of profitability and globalization, soon destroyed many of their jobs). Many of those who demonstrated then had in mind View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
existing. Likewise, through its Executive Education Program and HBS Online, the School is educating business leaders about the latest technologies and how to capitalize on these new capabilities. The course she took, says Hopkins, covered... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. (“Using the tools of business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
University of Houston professor, and Shara Bumgarner, a Houston elementary school teacher. Melcher located some classroom space and then watched as her daughter began to acquire social and communication skills in the new environment.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Research Brief: Lost in Translation
English-speaking investor bases. For Yu, the lesson is obvious: Crystal clear communication is essential for CEOs and other leaders who are talking with their investors. “So much communication is becoming real-time these days, thanks to View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
cofounder of the global investment firm GMO, recently observed in the context of governmental inaction on climate change, “We face a form of capitalism that has hardened its focus to short-term profit maximization with little or no... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
land trust with a mission to “preserve, for public use and enjoyment, properties of exceptional scenic, historic, and ecological value in Massachusetts.” In Kendall’s 12-year tenure at the organization, he led its largest capital... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
heads to keep them dry. Wading through the water, we had to watch out for snakes that had been driven from their homes by the flooding." Civilization was only 60 kilometers away, in the state capital of Cuttack, where Parija's uncle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
low-carbon economy. He is the managing director of GameChange Capital LLC, a private-equity firm cofounded with Hohn to back companies offering scalable and profitable solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A former senior adviser... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
(MBA 1992), CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, suggests that we address the issue of wealth inequality by creating “a way for those with no investment assets to participate in the success of capitalism.” His specific plan is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector Funding cutbacks,... View Details