Filter Results:
(300)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,552)
- People (1)
- News (300)
- Research (795)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (574)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,552)
- People (1)
- News (300)
- Research (795)
- Multimedia (8)
- Faculty Publications (574)
Sort by
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s history—from corporate parent... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
and health standards. He served a one-year term, from which he was just released. Ackman, a leading real estate investor and chairman emeritus of the Ackman Ziff Real Estate Group LLC and member of the advisory board of the Pershing... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
on one model of success. Technology and financing landscapes change constantly, and you have to adapt.” Biotech ventures have what Simons refers to as “many potential failure modes,” and raising capital can be tough. Akouos netted $224... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
the Entrepreneurial Finance course with Bill in Fall 2008, I know he is a wonderful and generous colleague, too. Bill graciously agreed to mentor me in this new role—a comforting thought and the reason why I said yes to Nitin. I have been... View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
because if we go into business together, we'll surely get into trouble. Next, what is the vision, the technology, and are we addressing a really large unserved market? Then, is the financing plan reasonable, and finally, is there a sense... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Goals. Whether it’s improvements in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for this type of digital financial inclusion, provides guidance to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of finance at the Boston office of one such organization, The Community... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... 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
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Health Care Organizations by David W. Young (DBA ’77) (Jossey-Bass) Young, a member of the faculty at Boston University’s School of Management who will teach next semester at IESE Business School in Barcelona, specializes in management... View Details
- 07 Feb 2015
- News
Chicago's Busiest Angel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
There was almost a riot.” After observing her first successful open-heart surgery and the emotional post-operative meeting between the doctor and the baby's grateful parents, McIntosh, who speaks Russian and has a master's degree in public View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
include: Agriculture, which receives massive government subsidies. Universities, which enjoy tax-exempt status and direct subsidies through government research grants. Health care, which receives a huge tax break (employer-sponsored View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Dreaming big for Africa’s future
and power generation. Helios also annually contributes a fixed percentage of its gross fee income to nonprofit groups and programs in Africa that improve access to education and health care for the underprivileged. Lawani credits HBS for... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
generation of family. “That’s often the preferred method,” says founder and CEO Rick Bauerly (MBA 1996). But when that’s not possible, then we want to be the next-best alternative, which is a group of family businesses with similar cultures, values, and goals,” which... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
are all experiencing HBS from the other side of the educational equation. Representing the areas of finance (Baldwin) and general management (Barrett, Hightower), they bring a potent mix of skills and expertise to the classroom - and even... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
interest in the health of the soil. “If you restore soil and agriculture and don’t use chemical fertilizers to grow crops, and you change your tilling practices, if you did this with one in five farms around the world, you would capture... View Details