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- 24 Apr 2014
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Preserving Patagonia
model and other market-based models ultimately attract billions of dollars of incremental investment capital to conservation," Adams says. "The remaining pristine places in the world need and deserve all the help they can get." (Published... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
He Loves New York
wretch at heart? It turns out that Wasserstein, CEO of Lazard, had at one time pondered a career in journalism, been an editor at his college paper, and worked one summer at Forbes magazine while attending HBS, according to the Times. Even when he moved on and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good governments as well as View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
$900. Yaqub left an investment banking job in New York City in 2003 to attend HBS, where she unexpectedly changed her mind about returning to finance. “My favorite experience at HBS was the field study that four of us did for Neiman... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
in a way that would convince high school administrators and students to invest their time in a new program, and, of course, raising money for everything from test-graders to marketing. When funds were tight, the board made personal... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
times give solid companies and strong managers the chance to seize market share. Fox explains how the savvy few who rise to the top stay focused and alert, get new market share, hire good and recently fired talent, increase investments in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Building New Connections
has taught in numerous other HBS Executive Education programs. Foley is also a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Corporate Finance and International Trade and Investment Programs. “I am eager to embark on... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
invest in Mexico, where his company now has several factories, a decision that has served Palliser well. “I can’t say that you are going to be more successful in business if you take human rights into account,” he says. “But one can... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
excelling in the predominantly male-run world of business. "These women who make it through the corporate, investment banking, consulting, and even the legal gauntlet, and at 50 or 55, are ready and qualified to sit on a corporate... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
her classmates, Langer began her employment in the financial industry, joining Shearson Lehman Brothers as an investment banker. "I was specializing with retail companies: Federated Department Stores, Macy's, Barneys New York. It was just... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run
Langford’s pitch is this: The cost of the opioid crisis to the state of Georgia is undetermined but vast, with a conservative estimate in the range of $10 to $15 billion. With an $8.7 million investment dedicated to a second-generation... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
day she applies what she learned at HBS and interacts with someone from the School’s worldwide community. “It’s not here and there or now and then; it’s everywhere and all the time.” Serra arrived at HBS with a law degree and experience working in communications,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Applying business practices to nonprofits to strengthen impact
The nonprofit need of for-profit acumen is acute, says Jeff Bradach (AM 1990, PhDOB 1992), cofounder and managing partner of The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit advisor and resource for mission-driven organizations and philanthropists. Bridgespan collaborates with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are marking the International... View Details