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- 01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun
Seattle cable television company, and in 1969 sold the enterprise -- by then a multimillion-dollar business -- to CBS. He then "dabbled in real estate" and during a trip to the South Pacific to explore potential investment opportunities,...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 08 Mar 2017
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Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
less of our product. And we do that through innovative billing strategies that allow them to repay investments in their own household that make it more efficient on their utility bill. “The AMP program for...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami
businesses that could be created and, instead, maybe the business that I should create is an investment firm to promote founders entering the space and innovation in the sector.” She discovered that investor...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking supervision, and the separation of commercial and investment banking under the Glass-Steagall Act. As Moss is quick to point out, there...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Floor It
leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an equally View Details
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
bankruptcy court protection in November 2008 despite high advance demand for its planes. In January, a judge approved the sale of Eclipse’s assets to Eclipse Jet Aviation International, an affiliate of Luxembourg-based European Technology and View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives
how knowledgeable and proactive the firms we visited were about sustainability; some of them are far ahead of firms in the developed world. They understand that it’s essential to their long-term survival.” Similarly, the group was impressed by regional View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
through the evening with the client relationship intact, but it also taught him a valuable lesson about personal business relationships that has informed his current work. “The idea of investing in personal relationships is something we...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2009
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Alumni Books
development opportunities, or proper rewards. Expanding on their previous books, The HR Scorecard and The Workforce Scorecard, the authors recommend that workforces be managed like portfolios, with more investments in the jobs that create...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
objective was met. Our space research gave rise to Silicon Valley, and U.S. industrial strength was enhanced by technology innovation derived from products created for our satellite program. By 1980, however, Europe, helped by the...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
investment directors should be required to make in a company, but my analysis leads me to propose a threshold commitment of $250,000 to $500,000 for companies in the $1 billion to $3 billion revenue range, and $500,000 to $1 million in...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
are negatively impacted by the economic crisis caused by COVID-19. The fund will provide loans and investments ranging from $20,000 to $100,000 to qualified, early stage tech and innovation businesses with...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families and the invention of a wide range...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s book excerpt on “Chimerica”! Peter Tufano’s proposal to View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
reasons—so why not jump-start that mindset by throwing your body ahead of your inhibitions? Looking goofy doesn’t matter. Your ideas matter. Action matters. Investing in change matters. Plus, swinging from the ceiling with professional...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2012
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Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a...
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- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
Connections While an analyst for a small-business investment company in Boston in 1962, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), was sent to New Hampshire to checkout a novel communications innovation - a nascent...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
Last year, Echoing Green, which invests in social entrepreneurs, chose SHE as one of the most innovative social change organizations worldwide, providing it with seed money and technical support. It has been...
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- 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
investing in Black entrepreneurs—that counteract racism. “These are just a few of the strands of a much broader and complex set of institutional challenges,” write the group’s membership team. While they believe that “a truly just and...
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