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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
sophisticated bells and whistles of contemporary marketing. Macondo has been eclipsed by a proliferation of gleaming office towers and high-tech factories in some of the world's greatest cities. Yet Latin Americans will tell you that amid... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha breaks for lunch near his home. After leaving Notore in 2010 to set up his own investment group, Doreo Partners, Masha spent a short stint as chief of staff for Nigeria's agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, helping develop a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time, in service to his country,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education bureaucracy—in Obama's hometown.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
quarter. Overall, the unit now accounts for 38 percent of the company’s business, according to its financial statements, with IBM spending more than $5 billion in acquisitions in the first half of 2016 to nourish cloud businesses like... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(such as failing health, fears of growing older, and grieving lost loved ones) and shares positive ways to meet your financial needs. And “Fresh Maps,” complete with advice from a range of role models, provides insights for changing... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
forwarded the business plan. “By the end of 2013, we reached the point where I confronted either writing it off and writing off my friend and benefactor’s money—or I was going to pull the nose up.” Lo stepped in as CEO in July 2014. She built out the team, including... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it this way... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
of Weiss, who, prior to HBS, helped shape Boston’s municipal innovation strategy while serving as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a position he assumed after working in Menino’s office... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
school districts, and social enterprise) to explore how they can improve their regions’ competitiveness. The School’s nine Global Research Centers and four Research Offices deepen the faculty’s understanding of and contributions to global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
we’ll accept anything. But, globally, I’m trying to take into account the human aspect of running a business, not just the financial aspect. “Jeannette is the oldest startup in France, with the highest median worker age,” adds Viana, who... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
amazed that we've come so far so fast," says Associate Professor David M. Upton, who has spearheaded the latest initiative with the strategic input of Clark and many others on the faculty, the services of a legion of IT professionals, and the hands-on assistance of... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
assumed it was some combination of choice, poor financial decisions, and bad luck,” says Shumway, the founder, chairman, and former CEO of Cicero Group, a Salt Lake City–based consulting firm that uses advanced analytics to help clients... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
there is little education by family members or in schools about personal finance. Most students have no sense of personal financial control, nor have they worked to have a financial safety net. Graduate... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
chain, which expanded to five locations before succumbing to financial difficulties after several years of struggle. The experience “wiped me out financially,” says Rogers. Down to his last $4,000 and in need of a job, he dropped in one... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Raymond James Financial (RJF) is a diversified, publicly traded financial services holding company, including asset management and investment banking services, with some 800 View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
Smith, editor in chief of The Lone Star Iconoclast, Crawford’s newspaper. Edwards also counts veterans among his strongest supporters. Before the redistricting, he represented the huge Fort Hood Army installation. “In his old district, he... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details