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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
about freedom. The people in the audience were crying, something I will never forget. I remember thinking, ‘This is what people mean when they say the arts transcend everything. The audience may not know my language, but they get it; I’m View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
1999, the nascent success of that program, called athenaNet, and the interest it attracted from investors and other medical practices convinced Bush and Park to shift the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2020
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In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) When she was asked to chair the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce back in May, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) paused. Despite nearly three decades of experience as a life sciences investor with SV Health... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960) When asked about his motivation for supporting financial aid for HBS students from his native Poland, energy industry entrepreneur and investor Jacek Makowski reveals his deep regard for history—both Poland’s and... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
from, so art investors need a steady supply of new artists. “We have no market for contemporary art by young artists here,” says Shibayama, who notes that there is a social benefit as well as a financial return in supporting artists. “We... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
interested in the issue of governance generally.” Farient’s research indicates that investors are generally accepting of high compensation levels as long as performance is good. But not surprisingly, it’s a different story when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
and wastewater systems of varying size, the majority of which are extremely small. Those systems—some investor owned, others government operated—have a variety of governance structures and infrastructures that are decades old. This... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Lisa Frankenberg
bureaucratic difficulties in a country where laws were in flux, Frankenberg persisted in her vision to fill the new republic's information void. "Having total support from my investor made it possible," she says gratefully. Today, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
SPNM scholarship program a primary focus of its fundraising activities because the program’s impact in the region is so far-reaching. “Our members have been most motivated to give back to the community through SPNM,” says Panoff. “This is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders Tsedal Neeley My intellectual agenda is ambitious and somewhat risky,” says Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow Tsedal Neeley. “I truly believe that HBS is one of the few... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Angels Conference Tackles Post-Pandemic Investing and Entrepreneurship The global pandemic has reshaped the world, and investors and founders are full of questions about the future of startups. To find... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
include a mechanical engineering degree from MIT and patented novel technologies for self-driving vehicles. “But I don’t want to just make an app that delivers Instacart items five seconds sooner. My career vision is to tackle difficult challenges to benefit people in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
Bridgitt Bertram Evans (both MBA 1986), The Heckscher Foundation, and Andrew Paul (MBA 1983) — and others is allowing members of the Harvard community and beyond to take their ideas as far as they can go. The HBS One Harvard Fund, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Letters to the Editor
special interests, particularly as they corrode the tax code? Unless both sides of the equation, revenue and expense, are questioned on the issue of fairness, I’m digging my tax heels in. Brian Mullen (MBA 1980) Lawrence, NY Investors... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers
the average American hospital loses $80 million a year in neglected patient referrals and other processing inefficiencies. The solution, Jarzabek says, is Trustedoctor’s “E-Link”, a secure online platform which streamlines communication... View Details
Keywords: April White