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- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
investment banking--give their points of view. Joseph Bower, Baker Foundation Professor The GM IPO represents the beginning of the end of a remarkable piece of intervention by the Obama administration. The government's involvement in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and Charles R. ("Chuck") Lee (MBA '64), chairman and CEO of GTE Corporation. Edelman, who established the CDF in 1973, received the club's Leadership Award and was... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
provides a mentoring network to let students explore a variety of careers. It also funds leadership camps for students and provides financial education to students and young adults in the community. “After starting out with only my... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
many HBS graduates, to invest in new ways of solving old problems. The five social entrepreneurs featured below are a representative sample of the scores of alums who have dedicated themselves to creating or working for organizations that... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
growth, but we still have a very poor understanding of the value implications of these kinds of actions. So there's lots of room for improvement. Q: Are there certain companies excelling in this area, or any industries where ESG View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Matter’s largest financial supporter, meanwhile, is Pershing Square Foundation, started by Bill Ackman (MBA 1992). Pershing helped fund a 2014 ROI study by Columbia University professor Clive Belfield, who found that for every dollar... View Details
- Blog
Crossing the Bridge from Program Learning to Practical Application
When you attend an HBS Executive Education program, you never know what opportunities the experience may present. In fact, you could even find yourself becoming part of the teaching team. Ask Deb Barnes, Senior Managing Director of Fund... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
bottom line of medical device companies—it’s good for patients as well. Related Reading: New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly Public R&D Investments and Private-sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
that social media users are increasingly attracted to the idea of such a model. But funding it without advertising's help won't be easy. Two digital marketing experts, Harvard Business School professors John Deighton, the Harold M.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
2024) and Tristan Bagala (MBA 2023), who are set on a path to pursue personally meaningful work that contributes to the greater good of society. “What I hope to do is to help others. That is why I’m here. Through this funding support, HBS... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Advanced Management Program and a founding member of Intel. Now executive vice president of that corporation, he is also president of Intel Capital, a corporate venture capital unit investing in companies in this country and companies... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
the risk associated with investing the potentially significant time and money necessary for the R&D, equipment, and talent that could eliminate these bottlenecks, or focus on growing the business with its current industry-leading... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
Foundation, an educational fund founded by board chair Ashish Dhawan [MBA 1997] and Siddharth Yog [MBA 2004], founder of the emerging-markets investment firm Xander.) Rocket already works with public schools... View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Buy Big, Sell Small
brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
to respond to this economic and cultural turning point and whether to keep investing in these ancillary aspects of their operations. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710412-PDF-ENG Hassina Sherjan Robert G. Eccles,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
singlehoming on one side of the market, the incumbent always invests (weakly) more in first-party content relative to the case in which it is a monopolist. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-123.pdf Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Deborah A. Farrington
followed an atypical path to success in the male-dominated world of finance and venture capital. She co-founded StarVest in 1998, which was built upon investments in technology-enabled business services on the Internet, and she has had a... View Details
- 29 Jun 2019
- News
Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
100 jobs. Many of them, specifically in Senegal, have been able to raise funding both from the public sector and also from private investors, angel investors, and VC investors. “Now, when you look at the private sector on the continent,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
brother and cousin, that forms the Office of the President at Loews' Manhattan headquarters. Among his primary responsibilities are watching over several major real estate investments and working closely with the CEOs of several... View Details