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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big for microfinance. Since its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
In the Spotlight
time when a wave of cultivated European immigrants was arriving in New York and America. “La Guardia believed that it was very important to provide this audience with an enormously high quality of opera, and that it should be accessible, innovative, and wonderful,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and Italian investors who View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
hundred U.S. automakers, and look at how few there are now. Innovation and Darwinism have always gone hand in hand. But the information-driven economy is here to stay. Every organization is focused on how it can deliver services... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
With online crowd votes from more than 1,200 alumni and MBA students, the winners of the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition have been crowned. Winner of the crowd-voted Most Innovative and Greatest Impact categories is York Street... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery
disruptions and revenue losses will require even more transformational thinking.” Mills believes three important lessons from the pandemic can help point the way. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
advice about the strategic responses that are likely to be most effective in the changing venture capital environment. The third group — governments, nonprofits, academic institutions, and large corporations — can learn how to emulate the rigors of a venture capital... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this innovative approach to funding social services originated. It’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in part by British government... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
accomplishment from both sides of the Charles. "Robert Merton has been an innovative leader in the field of economic valuations and in improving the capacity to manage financial risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "This is a... View Details
- 29 May 2024
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Harvard Professor Scott Kominers on NFTs and Brands
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
innovative business units to attack the problem. Others prescribe the more radical and risky measure of throwing out old success formulas in order to remake the company from scratch. Sull favors a third approach. “Managers can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Thomas K. McCraw, 1940–2012
elective course The Coming of Managerial Capitalism. A former editor of the Business History Review, McCraw was a prolific author. His other notable books include Prophet of Innovation (a biography of Joseph Schumpeter) and, most... View Details
Keywords: obituary
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
HBS alumni and students are among the names topping two major lists of up-and-comers in the worlds of retail, finance, health, nonprofits, and more that were released this week. Forbes has just published its annual “30 Under 30” list, which includes these HBS alumni:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
numbers one never thinks about, even though they play a crucial role in most aspects of life. Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal by Mark W. Johnson (MBA ’96) (Harvard Business Press) Johnson... View Details