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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
successful of the year. But with some 400 employees devoted to research, many with PhDs, the company has significant resources committed to the brains that give its product a technological edge. The company has deals in the pipeline, but it needs to execute them and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Recovery and Reinvestment Act, with a Race to the Top competition that promised more than $4 billion in stimulus money for states that—among other reforms—heeded the call to establish what the President referred to as "laboratories of... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
alumni group has already raised $45,000 for relief efforts. “All the money raised will go to the Turkey Mozaik Foundation’s Kahramanmaras Earthquake Emergency Relief Fund to support civil society... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
needy families, children, and community groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Eight years later, Batcha established the nonprofit Seed Programs, Inc. (SPI), to continue this vital work after foundation funding had lapsed. “The seed... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
the MBA Program, and John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47), who helped launch the School's Social Enterprise Initiative, provided substantial guidance and support. (Both now serve on O'Neill's school board.) Then came a frustrating struggle to establish a permanent site ("We... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Consultant at McKinsey & Co., served as moderator. The panel pointed out that only 2.7% of venture capital money goes to female founders. “People cannot believe the percentage is so low,” says Greub, adding that the predominantly male... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
build factories, or create jobs in the United States. Our economy needs all of these. —HBS senior lecturer Robert C. Pozen is a longtime investment executive, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and coauthor of The View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
EHR system. The scan might as well be stuck in a manila folder. “The biggest problem with health care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
to be shared in perpetuity, they donated their shares back to a nonprofit. The money involved is pretty staggering. We sell tickets. They're $400 each this year. That changes year to year. And we have to lease the land it's on from the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
the average grant to fellowship students will only be about 25 percent of their total, two-year expenditure. “Long term, raising money to increase fellowship support will continue to be important.” Another goal is enlarging the number of... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
chairs, and more than 400 fellowships. When the campus was built in 1925-26, George F. Baker, who funded the buildings’ construction, was given the honor of naming them and chose names of U.S. Treasury secretaries (Chase, Gallatin, Glass,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
11,000 community members. Owusu-Kesse had already spent a year at Canada’s side, thanks to an externship sponsored by his employer, Morgan Stanley. Now Canada wanted him back. “I had no idea how much money I would make. I had no idea what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
therapeutics; and disseminating findings in real time. Currently, the Kraft team is tracking ongoing trials for pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, multiple myeloma, and immune therapies. Finding Funding Fixes The Kraft team is also focused... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 26 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)
elements in life that drive you away from working on something you're passionate about. It can be peer pressure (e.g., 'you should do consulting or finance'); money (e.g., 'a hedge fund is the job with the... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship funds for people studying the arts. “It helps support the artists, while at the same time... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Lee-Chin, chairman and CEO of AIC, a Canadian mutual fund company. “Our behavior today will be our history tomorrow,” Chin said. “We have to make sure it is well written.” Panels included alumni from recent MBA classes discussing the ups... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
noting that these leaders were acting on what they believed to be true, rather than taking irresponsible risks, not seeing they were in any real danger until it was too late. Public pension funds, on the other hand, were the victims of bad incentives. Those View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
READ MORE In the UK, veteran biotech investor Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) leads the search for a COVID vaccine. As with any startup, money was the first obstacle Bingham needed to solve but, in this case, it was the easiest to overcome.... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)... View Details