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- 28 Sep 2017
- News
Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion
capital supplied by maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. According to Bloomberg, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
business can get a loan.” Small Businesses Strengthen US Supply Chains The current global supply chain back-up underscores the importance of valuing and fostering small manufacturers and service providers.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
So on climate change, for example, how do you create a market where people get credit for avoiding deforestation, which contributes to greenhouse gases? Is the emphasis on understanding and altering market forces something new for the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers climb out of poverty. Ibrahim... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
difference to the entire region. You can see the prosperity returning to the villages.” The impacts of this prosperity have been significant. A local credit union has replaced an abusive loan-shark system; farmers (mostly women) have... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
needed, and supply them with cheaper minutes that it had bought at a bulk discount. Because the buyers would purchase these minutes on credit, it made sense for their neighbors to sell to them, because they could more easily assess the... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
inspired me to reach higher, I don’t think I would have even considered the Ivy League. That’s a trap even the brightest kids in public high school graduates experience even today.” After Penn, Huebner headed to Wall Street for a job at View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Well, did you care about Watergate or Vietnam or Enron, just a few of the countless national episodes vivisected by a vigilant press? Should you care that a credit crisis is roiling markets the world over as business reporters move en... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
services. The need is daunting. “There are nearly 4 million 18- to 24-year-olds out of work who don’t have more than a high-school degree,” explains Chertavian. Nearly 500 students now attend the full-time Year Up program while earning college View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
An ailing horse and an overweight Labrador retriever provided the inspiration for Becky Minard and Paal Gisholt (both MBA ’93) to launch SmartPak, a business that provides nutritional supplements, dog food, and supplies to customers... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
succeeded in cutting all major supply lines to the city, and on September 1, Confederate forces under the command of General John Bell Hood evacuated the area. The next day, Sherman’s army marched in, raising the American flag over city... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
the concept that the person who “owned” the final purchaser actually could control the supply process all the way up the line, by controlling the shelf space. From that evolved the concept of private labeling, and Peter formed a company,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
element comes in," explains Ghosh, "with the software validating the person's credit information through electronic links with banks around the country, while at the same time protecting that card number from being accessed by anyone... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
economics perspective. I thought maybe that was an approach, but, you know, there are all these paradigms, economics is so locked in this paradigm of demand and supply and prices, clear markets, and things like that. A few years later... View Details