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- 01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman
still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on. Private-equity firms have borrowed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the notion that the Fed could be the primary regulator of every systemically risky institution is just not practical. That means it would need to be an expert on money market funds, hedge funds, and life insurance companies View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Force Academy. While completing his military service, he went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned master’s and doctoral degrees. “I worked really hard,” he says of his time at Oxford. “I was sitting... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play
she saw in the Los Angeles Times for the Nick Harris Detective Academy. “I thought, ‘Well, I like reading mystery stories,’ ” she says with a laugh—and, on a whim, decided to give the school a shot. She loved the work so much that after... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business
solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
having a hard time getting funded. In fact, only 1 percent of venture capital money was invested in companies run by female CEOs in 2010, the most recent year available according to Dow Jones VentureOne. Not... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2016
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Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a copper brew house three times the size of its previous system. (Courtesy Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits) Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a copper brew house... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
author, speaker, and podcast host, focus on loss. New York Times bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian and Gretchen Rubin write about the importance of reading. Now compiled as an anthology, these essays speak... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
innovation and making money at the same time!” “We’re fortunate to be building this business at a time when there is so much focus on the plastics problem.” —Gina Pak “We’re fortunate to be building this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook
customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
As a student at Harvard College, Matthews continued her experimentation, signing up for a class called Affecting Change through Art and Science. “I took the course because people said, ‘You can create cool stuff and they give you View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of nature, he describes himself simply as an "organizer by instinct." As a high-school student, for example, he rallied his classmates to raise money to build a private... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
everything away from you except your education. I spent 20 years in the financial markets in Brazil, in a very exciting period in its history. By the time I was 52, I still had work to do, and I was fascinated by the idea of education.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
of picking winners in the world of tech innovation, and in so doing it could also boost companies unlikely to otherwise get backing from the largely Bay Area–based venture capital firms that serve as gatekeepers between startups and the... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2012
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Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
realized that he wanted to learn more about the dilemmas inherent in launching ventures. He returned to HBS, first to earn a PhD (in 2002) and then as a professor, dedicating his research to the pitfalls of founding and how to avoid them.... View Details
- 04 Mar 2016
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Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Finance
John Cortines John Cortines John Cortines and Greg Baumer (both MBA 2015) are lifelong member of evangelical Christian churches. At HBS, they began to consider what their religion teaches about money and how to bridge the perceived divide... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. What-ever the genre (he has also published romance novels, science fiction, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
year. Despite the wealth of people like Wu Yajun and Yin Mingshan, the average Chinese lives on less than $2,000. Why would the latter want, in effect, to lend money to the former, who is twenty-two times... View Details