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Andrew Kinard
"I saw an immediate improvement in my ability to understand and contribute. I'm helping set the annual budget. I was able to understand the cash-flow statements and how they connected to our balance sheets and income statements. What... View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
despite incurring higher expenses and making significant growth-focused investments, each group provided important income contributions to the School’s operations for the year. Faculty research expenses at HBS—nearly 19 percent of the... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
a tax of 4 percent to annual income above $1 million in order to raise approximately $1.9 billion in new revenue for public education funding. The foundation’s efforts do not stop with providing grant View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
development. Culled from a pool of nearly 1,000 applicants, those selected serve a yearlong fellowship in a nonprofit focused on issues such as economic development, education, health, hunger, international development, and impact... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
decided to evaluate strategic alternatives due to financial difficulties. Parks Capital must now decide whether to acquire U.S. Retail, to fund ACCM so it acquires U.S. Retail, or to sit on the sidelines. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
eschewed broadcasting messages to customers, instead focusing on connecting customers to each other, subsequently linking those customers' actions to increased profitability. To see this approach in action, consider eBay's Group Gifts app, launched in late 2010 and... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
the industry might have continued as it had for decades were it not for the growth of a different type of financial product. Structured finance instruments, described in the case as securities "constituting a claim on a pool of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials (PRO-ACT) database, which was developed by Prize4Life together with Massachusetts General Hospital. Independent of the prize, PROACT is a powerful tool for biomedical researchers,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
underscored the risk and uncertainty inherent to capitalism itself. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you decide to write this book? Walter Friedman: The idea came to me years ago when teaching "Creating Modern Capitalism," a short course that was once required for View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
organizing a large pool of capital, investing at scale, and generating VC-style returns. By effectively anointing category leaders and deterring competitive entry, would the Vision Fund accelerate innovation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
grant perfectly met my yearly loan dues so it massively reduced stress and liability for me. Even as the years have passed, the Loan Repayment Assistance Program has allowed me to concentrate on investing our organization's funds in the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that tolerance is very high in the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
experiences and, really, to help each other.” Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years, Raises Funds for Social Enterprise Scholarships The HBS Club of Atlanta (HBSCA) threw a festive 90th Anniversary Gala on September 19 at the Cherokee Town... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in high View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
from Dice-K in the 2007 season? And finally, how does the signing fit into the greater strategic context of competing with the much-better funded Yankees? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
reach its aggressive growth targets. In the summer of 2016, after an intense few months of talks with potential investors, Ozbugutu was looking at five competitive term sheets from funds with great fintech know-how and emerging-markets... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
all of those who signed up, only about a quarter of them were truly uninsured. The rest were newly eligible Medicaid recipients (created by increases in income eligibility thresholds under the ACA), were switching policies, or had... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
the largest impact investing funds in the country. He then joined Illumen Captial, an impact fund-of-funds that trains its fund managers to unlearn their racial and gender bias, for a winter internship and... View Details