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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
clinicians need to take responsibility for letting health care get out of their hands and help right the ship in the way health-care systems are being managed. Physicians can not absolve themselves and simply get mad when View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
April 29 aimed at helping members navigate the economic and health impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the black community. The series kicked off with “How Black Businesses Can Survive Covid-19” and featured Rogers, and his daughter,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
Happy Because He’s Blind
most valuable lesson: Life without obstacles removes opportunities for growth,” he said. “We have to choose to deliberately frame our perception, or we allow the circumstances of life to determine our happiness.” Now a finance executive... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
number of working women who’ve experienced negative health consequences as a result of the pandemic is 10 to 12 percentage points higher than men. It’s stress, a sense of being overwhelmed, depression—all of the conditions that occur when... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
through the ministry’s work, launched a $1.3 billion economic resilience plan, representing 7 percent of GDP, the second largest in Africa (second to South Africa). Senegal was one of the first African countries to come up with a resiliency plan. It included all the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in the country. In the early... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Horse-Powered Healing
Finance strategist Elizabeth Coit (MBA 1991) took her career in an unexpected direction six years ago, when she became executive director of the Morning Dove Therapeutic Riding Center in Zionsville, Indiana. “At some point, I decided I... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
translate for us, willingness to donate isn’t so different—and so my strategy class has also been very helpful. I use accounting to evaluate finances and develop budget documents both here and in my role on the board of the organization I... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Africa Looks Ahead
OKONJO-IWEALA: Providing basic infrastructure is the way to transform people's lives. At a UN meeting in Liberia to discuss a framework for development after the UN's millennium goals expire in 2015, Nigeria's finance minister, Dr. Ngozi... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
hospital with a staff of forty) grows and demands a more sophisticated understanding of finance and managerial issues. “All of the things I turned away from to become skilled as a surgeon are becoming more important,” he observes. “As the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- News
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Weathering the Storm
Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) In this special video edition of Skydeck, contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009) speaks with 645 Ventures Cofounder and General Partner Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) about near-term and long-term strategies for... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
electronics, internet services, health care. And they are the caregivers of their families and their communities, and so it's a huge opportunity that has yet to really be tapped in terms of really creating IP and products that really... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced structure... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details