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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
It is estimated that one billion people around the world need vision correction but don't have glasses because they are too expensive or simply unavailable. The resulting losses in productivity and self-sufficiency may reach as much as... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom line impact View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
value iPhones and high-definition TVs, but there is a big difference between them in terms of trade. Homes and health care can’t be exported, while manufactured goods make up about 80 percent of world trade. If Americans want to keep... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
tax havens that collect little or no taxes, like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. These havens violate the premise of the territorial system, which is that corporate profits are taxed somewhere in the world at a reasonable rate. (The major... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Making a Case for Women
business school cases feature male executives. In the fall, a new initiative was launched to support the development of case studies featuring women business leaders in key roles. The effort, the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 Fund at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
The Difference Fellowships Make
be possible without support from alumni and friends. Over the years, some 600 individuals, groups, and organizations have established fellowship funds, and every year, thousands of donors support fellowships through the HBS Fund for... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Founded in 2008 by Sal Khan (MBA 2003), Khan Academy is a nonprofit with a simple mission: to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Today, more than 135 million registered... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
wave of new business ventures in areas such as microcomputers, software programs, and hardware-related peripheral equipment that has changed the world forever. "During the early '80s, I'd get a lot of business plans from alumni starting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
is the world's largest, most complete, and best-preserved representative of her species attracts many dinosaur-obsessed youngsters to the Field, it also brings paleontologists from around the world who can conduct research on her actual... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
WILCOX: “At the height of the boom, all venture-capital funds had LPs begging to get in. Today, the really good funds are back competing for the very best deals.” With roughly half of the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Turning Point: Sum of the Parts
Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library | Bloomberg Center: According to Forbes, the healthcare industry is “increasingly recognizing the need to better serve women,” with digital women’s health plays (Femtech) receiving over $1 billion in View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
when I realized he was someone I could always count on," she recalls. Gehrke was back in the corporate world working for AT&T when their son Luke was born in 1984. Her work with his elementary school parents' association led to her... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
long the centerpiece of the HCA's activities. The prestigious scholarship, founded by former HCA president and current World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59), awards U.S.$50,000 to students bound for any Harvard graduate... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
same house for a long time, and in that world it made sense to own the same sofa for 10 years. The new generation has been forced to buy fixed assets even though they know they’re going to be moving before long. For them, the furniture... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
women of Wall Street can be just as cold-heartedly corrupt as the boys.” The Hollywood Reporter agreed, saying it “is a smart thriller set in the corporate world that disguises its modest budget with an intelligent script and good set of... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans... View Details
- 27 Apr 2025
- News
Celebrating 40 Years of Kraft Family Fellowships
Robert Kraft (center) and Jonathan Kraft and Dean Srikant Datar (second row, center) gathered recently with Kraft Family Fellowship recipients and guests to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the first Kraft fellowship fund... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
What Fellowships Make Possible
large. Fellowships at HBS are established and supported almost entirely by alumni and friends — donors who have created named funds as well as those who contribute annually to the HBS Fund for Leadership and... View Details