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- 17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 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
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
Jay O. Light, Dean of Harvard Business School from 2005 to 2010, died on October 15, 2022, at his home in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, of cancer. He was 81 years old. Light served on the HBS faculty for more than four decades. He loved being in the classroom and was... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
she was honored with the National Order of Merit, France’s highest decoration, in recognition of her efforts to promote sustainable development and to support innovative startups. “It doesn’t make my life different on a daily basis, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights
first-year MBA students. The bootcamp uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. Other topics such as coding and financial analysis are planned for future programs. HBX Two New Online Certificate Programs... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that crypto technology can really... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
International Finance Corporation; Sarah Wright Meyers (MBA 1997), Founder & Managing Partner, Hull Street Energy; and Matt Sonnesyn (Harvard Kennedy School, 2002), VP of Infrastructure, Energy, and Environment, Business Roundtable. “This... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel against some higher purpose. Nick Maynard (MBA/MPP ’02) harnesses that power... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as the population gets older. Costlier innovations and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
Tracy Palandjian (AB 1993, MBA 1997) is spearheading the development of social impact bonds (SIBs), a financial innovation designed to tackle some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Alongside Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969)... 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 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Ideas with Economic and Social Impact
While many countries are facing mounting economic, social, and political challenges, Karen Wilson (MBA 1991) says that “there’s a lot of potential in leveraging private sector approaches to address these challenges in new ways. The interest and willingness to View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Taking the Lead in Support of HBS
"When it comes to innovative business education, HBS leads the way. I contribute on a regular basis because it's important to me that the School continues on that path." —Andrew Hauptman (MBA 1995) Chairman, Andell, Inc.; Owner and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
one in every $10 of financing for innovative water businesses. “Imagine H20 is now global—about a quarter of the entries, which are, in number, about 100 a year, come from other countries. There are certain... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the country experienced no major financial crises, the longest such period on record (see chart above). Significant financial... View Details