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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
manufacturing practices documented in their book, the authors are optimistic about the future of U.S. apparel and textile firms. "This important sector of our economy is more advanced and productive than ever," concludes Hammond. "As Mark... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Wall Street’s most successful investors, while simultaneously spending 25 percent of his time supporting arts and nonprofit organizations. “I’ve always believed that those who do well in business have a responsibility to get involved in View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
government is. We need that $2 trillion stimulus package, but we also need, and do not have, a viable safety net. A strong democratically elected, transparent, and responsive government is vital to free-market capitalism because it not only provides the View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
many people who were living on the margins of society.” She also found the work at HBS challenging. “I think HBS is a very rigorous place academically, and I think that’s what makes it great,” she observes. By the time she graduated, with a joint degree in View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
inward at their operations, and then to their supply chain,” Toffel said. “But another key lever is public policy. What are we doing to foster—or undermine—climate policy?” Approximately 100 people gathered for the discussion entitled... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
with me. After a decade of running Aragon, I’m using the same approaches I use in choosing investments to identify the most effective curriculum for the children in our program, while being mindful of the budgetary constraints of public... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
machine. That gave him the freedom to pick and choose his cabinet from the private sector and other political parties and tune its focus to performance, instead of political ideology. The public View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
global-poverty problem, which is what IGD has done, is an important step that the public sector would be wise to study. One thing stands in the way: lack of a broad-based understanding in the business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding into their portfolios. What... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
about how venture capitalists fund companies, they usually do it in stages, giving a little money to start, waiting for it to percolate, and maybe doing a midcourse correction. For the public sector to do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
Olympic bids in their own cities. Act from Choice: Simple Tools for Managing Your Habits, Your Emotions and Yourself, to Be How You Mean to Be by Robert Goldmann (MBA 1961) (Clarity Publications Inc.) With the goal of training your brain... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
these problems on their own; the private sector would need to step up as well. Kauss paid attention. “I actually talked to the professor after the presentation and told him how inspired I was,” she recalls. So inspired, in fact, that two... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Capitalism Constrained: Public Policy and the Manager, examines the role of the state in five economic sectors: energy, communications, transportation, health, and the environment. "Deregulation, with roots in the U.S. political economy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
for business education. What must we do to ensure we remain an institution that educates leaders who make a difference in the world 10, 25, or even 50 years from now? This is a mission the world desperately needs us to fulfill. Business has the power to transform... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Thematically, the conference aimed to explore the major challenges of angel investing, managing and growing through a pandemic, as well as expanding opportunity for diverse founders and funders, confronting racial justice, and harnessing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Easy Rider
Before he launched Harley-Davidson in India, Anoop Prakash (MBA 2001) held business development roles in technology and was a consultant at McKinsey. He also had experience in the public sector and in the US... View Details