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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
that is the difference between two very interesting and very important numbers: how much money the government spends and how much it collects in taxes. Those are both important numbers. The difference between the two of them is not... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
governments are spending money to improve their conservation efforts. But technological innovation requires funding and that is currently coming mostly from the private sector. "Most businesses don't yet... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
a few bad eggs. If you do the right thing and people see that you are making a difference, you will get support beyond what you can imagine.” Hometown returns: Oteh has built a football arena in Item, her hometown in Abia State, in addition to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that because Parker had deferred rent,... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies. Gompers recently coauthored two books: Entrepreneurial Finance and The Money of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
CEO, Orbital ATK When Thompson launched Orbital in 1982, it became the first corporate space contractor in nearly 30 years. (courtesy Orbital ATK) David Thompson (MBA 1981) was working at NASA in the late 1970s when the agency’s funding... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
figure out the new market opportunity, and have the courage to jump and go after it. —Allison Campbell (MBA 2018) cofounder of Zubale; Alumni track finalist, 2019 Show Me the Money Entrepreneurship is about having a vision combined with a... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
than I ever knew I was, and it’s much easier to do than I ever expected, because I have 10,000 students in the district who need the money to go to them instead of vendors and contractors. They make it easy to stand up to the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
daughter of Indian immigrants, Aditya was acutely aware of the inequalities that plague the venture capital world, including the less than 3 percent of VC money that goes to all-women founding teams (a number that is even smaller for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Zest to Invest
into this business from the time I was thirteen, when I was given a couple of shares of stock," says the quietly intense Kingdon. "Even though the market nose-dived soon thereafter, I was taken with the idea that you could buy something that made View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
form,” Goldin said. “This all led to a more radical feminist movement and to the rise of an anti-feminist movement—a pro-family, anti-state aid, and anti-abortion set of organizations that produced more polarization amongst women than it did amongst men.” Actions of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Company magazine as one of the top socially entrepreneurial organizations in America, Year Up was started with private funding and is supported by corporate partnerships. Its business model is based in part on market demand for... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
Girls for Humanity (FGFH), the mission of which was to provide humanitarian services and funding to communities in need across the world. Hanazawa mobilized the global fashion industry by soliciting excess merchandise from luxury brands... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
have plenty of money in my pocket and healthy maize for my family to eat," Mustapha said then. "My children are already looking healthier—I can barely lift my eight-year-old. He's the fattest in the village." On a continent more likely to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
from one town, New Bedford. The reason actually has nothing to do with them having better ships or them having better anything. It's only because of their invention of a new financing mechanism, whereby merchants were able to take money... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
literary way. The Money Train: 10 Things Young Businesses Need to Know About Investors By David Pattison (AMP 152, 1997) Practical Inspiration Publishing Before you get on the money train, here’s what you... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
letting your convictions guide an urgent effort to do right by everyone. We used federal money and funds from the Dalio Foundation (Ray Dalio, MBA 1973) to buy 121,000 laptops and became the first state to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
buy key words and use search engine optimization. There’s social media, too. Kimpton has a Facebook page, and a lot of our chefs use Twitter. We haven’t spent money on national ads to date, since we’ve been pretty effective through word... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
offers four humanitarian Rainbows of Hope, personal and ambitious projects that have yet to reach fruition: the Hope Scholarship, which provides funds to help eligible high school graduates attend college; Hope for Starving Children, to... View Details