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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
shape, observed HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “We’ve had 25 years of right-wing ideology saying that the only way to get elected is to run against government. Isn’t that ridiculous? There has not been sufficient value put on serving the View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
outsourcing business may be of this nature. Many examples in your book come from outside the United States. Are other nations more advanced in using outsourcing for transformation? The United Kingdom is definitely ahead in using outsourcing in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
dilemmas. The Startup Game: Inside the Partnership between Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs by William H. Draper III (MBA '54) (Palgrave Macmillan) Draper looks at how the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship works.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face of public policy,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
second-largest continent: Africa. “Policymakers, investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
almost forty years with J&J, he quickly found a new mission as chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA), a coalition of communications professionals dedicated to persuading children to reject substance abuse. The result... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
children to local, under-resourced public schools. And when parents work more than one job or long hours, it reduces the time they can spend with their children reading and playing, or in social interaction. In contrast, wealthy families... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Ward - once synonymous with out-of-control crime rates, gang warfare, antiquated public housing, crumbling schools, and degrading poverty - have begun to show indications that there may be a way out of the hopeless downward spiral. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
New on the Web at Alumni Career Services
point of readiness, the Alumni Career Services Web site provides a range of useful resources and programs. Men and women interested in serving on public or private boards also have a new résumé database... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
lead donor and passionate supporter of the Montana Legacy Project deal that purchased over 310,000 acres of forest land from the Plum Creek Timber Company in the western part of the state. The Wyss Foundation’s initial gift of $25 million inspired View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
ramifications that need to be dealt with as public policy. As for the notion that private-sector efficiency automatically reduces costs, consider that most private health insurance companies spend 10 to 30... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
heading a services company that provides end-to-end technology solutions to over 150 Fortune 500 clients. With 28,000 employees located in 54 countries, Satyam, founded in 1987, had revenues of $1 million when it went public in 1992. In... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals
nation's top businesswomen. Held at Burden Auditorium, the theme of the 1999 conference was "Women Enriching Business." To that end, the WSA gathered together a host of prominent women from the public and View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
should find the capital markets attractive. Private equity and venture capital have played a major role in providing equity to firms before they are ready to access the capital markets. Foreign direct investment, at $3 billion annually,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
significant resources. Consequently, I think that Gazelle should seek one to two partnerships with large companies (e.g., Best Buy, Verizon, or Apple) on its buy side in order to take its scale to the next level. This will make it even... View Details