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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Communities, became our main vehicle to address poor families’ need for a clean and affordable water supply as well as proper sanitation. Since its launch in 1998, the TPSB program has benefited more than 1.7 million people, accounting... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
three, I’m tired of going around the minivan.” A loss in market share to Ford and GM eventually pushed Chrysler to the left-side sliding door—and market share increased immediately. “This is what happens when you listen to your customers,” says Lara. “Eighty percent of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
(FIELD) course offering small-group learning experiences that are experiential, immersive, and field-based. The course will become the primary vehicle for developing further innovations in the Required Curriculum. The second-year... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
exit.” The payoff has been the success of companies like Lightning Systems. Founded in 2008 to turn heavy vehicles into fuel-saving hybrids, the company faced extinction as zero-emissions systems gained prominence in the late 2010s. With... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
driver, "I was at the building three minutes later," says Lhota, who started directing traffic, knowing that emergency vehicles would soon be arriving at the scene. "At this point, I assumed it was an accident." Lhota was spotted by... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company actually admitting that to themselves and to the public—then real change is afoot. “When we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Can’t Forget the Motor City
In a flurry of activity in Detroit in March, the acronym “HBS” was almost as much in evidence as “GM.” It wasn’t just the departure of GM chief Rick Wagoner (MBA ’77) and the accession of his replacement, Fritz Henderson (MBA ’84). Also on the scene were Diana Farrell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to spending that boosts the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
DODI: Backing ventures with products important to women and families. Photo courtesy Monica Dodi A cofounder of MTV Europe, a former executive at Walt Disney/Europe, and former CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum, Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) is now based in Los Angeles, where... View Details
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
A Model of Drive and Impact
Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons behind the company’s rapid growth (... View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the organization approaches financing... View Details
- 16 Sep 2011
- News
Beneath Pinstripes, a Choir Robe
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together
investment vehicles used by angel investors to find and fund entrepreneurs: groups of angels who evaluate deals together, organizations that match entrepreneurs with interested angels, and individual angels who seek out deals through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
But if you’re looking for a simple, anonymous, flexible giving vehicle with little administrative burden, you’re likely to end up with a donor-advised fund (DAF). Setting up a foundation is a larger and more permanent undertaking—in terms... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
New England elites — Massachusetts Investors Trust chairman Merrill Griswold, MIT president Karl T. Compton, and Vermont Senator Ralph E. Flanders, the first Congressman to publicly upbraid Joseph McCarthy. Fresh from the U.S. victory in World War II, these luminaries... View Details