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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in high income... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
only pays for results, and investors benefit only if society benefits. Successful SIB partnerships yield multiple winners: government gains accountability for taxpayer funds; high-performing nonprofits reap growth capital; investors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
Fiscal year 2007 “proved to be an excellent financial and operational year for Harvard Business School,” declared CFO Richard Melnick (MBA ’92) in the School’s newly released annual report. He cited continued growth in the global economy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal... View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
future. “At the time, I was struggling with where my career was heading and in particular where corporate thinking and leadership were heading on a global scale,” he recalls. “I was becoming more and more disillusioned with working for a nameless, faceless shareholder,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a complicated View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
management. The authors provide first-hand accounts of M&A transactions that they led or were involved in, assessing each from an insider perspective and outlining the key success factors and pitfalls. The book concludes with practical... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago.” “This is a model that was designed for stakeholder value, although people didn’t call it that 200 years ago.” On the deposit side of the ledger, people who open an online savings View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
General. But because Bear and AIG weren’t banks, no one had to explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
understand about the current system—like how to best measure credit standards—that makes it harder to advance.” Accounting for Human Nature Sam Hanson, Marvin Bower Associate Professor Changes in financial... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
investment banking, also invokes the 1960s as a point of reference, specifically with regard to that era's conglomerate-building mania. "We saw huge companies of ill-fitting parts all held together by financial glue and the belief that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic spotlight on the question of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity
internships that, as with previous internships, proved pivotal to her career. As a 2016 HBS Summer Fellow, for instance, Kyarisiima received the critical financial support she needed to focus on a fledging business venture that she had... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
becoming the victim of its own success, according to the leaders of the Marketing unit at HBS. "Advances in technology and fundamental changes in how products and services are delivered are enabling other disciplines - such as manufacturing, sales, even View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
that transcends the confines of “economic self-interest.” Referring to the nation’s financial crisis, Light said, “The times call for serious reflection and deep inquiry.” If timing is everything, then the Centennial Global Business... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
New Releases
readable account of some of the landmarks of McArthur's tenure. "This is a pocket history of HBS that gives insight into how the School operates," McCraw recently told the Bulletin. "It also provides a personal View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
concepts to improve organizational effectiveness. Richardson attended a more targeted program titled Performance Measurement for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations, which is designed to boost organizational accountability and... View Details