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- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
opening our first factory in the US and we are close on our second. All of our major growth plans are around renewables. We just can’t move fast enough. My sense is, the IRA will push us over the edge here in the US, and we will enter an unstoppable virtuous View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
the influx of U.S. and European venture capital firms over the past decade, “many went through boom-and-bust cycles and didn’t survive, or decided to withdraw,” explains Khanna. “Those that remain have stopped doing venture capital the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
been addressed, investors return to the markets, and the cycle continues. In light of this poor regulatory track record, we believe government-mandated reforms and more regulation alone cannot solve the current crisis of corporate... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
in the city, a transportation mode he’s favored since HBS, when he would cycle to the airport before flights back to Mexico City, leaving his bike locked up in front of a supermarket in East Boston. There’s Commander’s Palace, once the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
real bicycle that would fold — something to use for serious cycling that was sturdier than available folding models. He designed and built a prototype in his spare time (while fully employed as an architect) and discovered that others... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
find it in Ruth M. Owades's (MBA '75) Calyx & Corolla catalogue. Since 1989, Owades has been offering American consumers mail-order cut flowers and plants, FedExed directly from the grower. Eliminating wholesalers and distributors clips a week or more off the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
playing all manner of sports, Foster says the fog began to roll in when he started college. He went through cycles of denial, struggling to make peace with his situation. Eventually though, he began to ask the question of "why me" very... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
continue to fall, thanks to ongoing improvements in their core technologies and the virtuous development cycles that flow from large-scale deployments. Consequently, by at least one measure, wave and tidal producers are most likely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
That virtuous cycle of spinouts, reinvestment, and serial entrepreneurship—what Frye refers to as the “wash, rinse, and repeat” of a healthy ecosystem—yields greater density and even more connections, ultimately giving rise to a fully... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
which all 88,000 workers are new, many are temporary, and half are volunteers, an entity that has no preexisting procedures and methods, no institutional memory, no long-term viewpoint, no established corporate culture, and, by definition, no future. "Think of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
to that time, things are more normalized and sane. We’re seeing more experienced, repeat entrepreneurs who have created valuable companies and been through the IPO cycle and the M&A cycle. I think entrepreneurship and innovation are still... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
cycles could leave on rural and postindustrial America. And having taught special education at a high school on New Mexico’s Navajo Nation reservation as part of Teach For America after finishing his undergraduate degree, he understood... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
site. “We believe that increasing the availability of capital in underserved areas can contribute to a virtuous cycle of job creation, wealth-building and other new opportunities for economic development, while also providing a return to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
far from the remote peninsula on Chappaquiddick Island where he grew up. Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death by Amy Chu (MBA 1999) (DC Comics) In this installment of the Poison Ivy story, Dr. Pamela Isley, Poison Ivy’s real name, is now a... View Details