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- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
us who work at HBS, such gestures make us feel good about the place. Photos by Neal Hamberg The Brighton Bengals are an inner-city team. Its players take public transportation to practice on a distant piece of city View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
directors hold large blocks of stock in public corporations, those firms experience increased performance relative to competing firms whose board members lack such significant holdings. "Sophisticated large-block owners are beneficial to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
was,” she says. “Our goal is to raise $150 million and help fund 5,500 homes over the next five years.” In an odd twist, the real estate foreclosure crisis has made it possible for Habitat to serve more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
members dependent on the person they’re supposed to supervise for compensation, information, perks, committee assignments, and, often, their very presence at the table. More Regulations Not the Answer America’s most successful investor, Warren Buffett, has long been a... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
for-profit. She began to make her mark as vice president of business development at Novica, in Los Angeles, an e-commerce company that connects artisans in developing countries to businesses and consumers in the US. "It's an innovative... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
become even more popular as the COVID-19 pandemic has made both the Valley’s products and its real estate prices seem ever more impractical. But if those dire predictions come true, it might not be because... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)
My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had... View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
A Pioneer of Affordable Housing
Ross Freeman (PMD 30, 1975) launched Pioneer Group in 1997 to turn historic buildings into affordable housing and office space in the American Midwest. “I had never really thought about being a real estate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
add-on that’s separate from the financial numbers–laden annual report. “To have real impact,” they write, “these separate reports need to be integrated” into a single One Report that reveals how a company is... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
summer, many of them Black and Brown youth,” Bobo told CNBC. He sought donations from real estate corporations and as the Black Lives Matter movement picked up, other companies... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
forced business closings due to contentious negotiations between the unions and the state and other employers. A real black swan. This has worsened an economy already weakened by the global financial crisis. Such conditions test the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
statement before we entered the space. But now, that piece of real estate over your ears calls for self-expression. Along with your eyewear, your hat, your hoodie, and your jeans, headphones are a prominent... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
markets and coordinate the expansions there. Based on my own experience, nothing beats spending in-person time in the new markets. —Matias Recchia (MBA 2007) is the founder and CEO of Unlock, a real estate... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own successful View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the names associated with this surge... View Details