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- 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 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
just on Japanese orders, particularly now when everyone’s orders are contracting. What are your chief concerns about how the Treasury Department under former Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) chose to allocate funds from the $700 billion... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
centered in where their life is and how it's changing," notes Dutch Leonard. "There is a continuous influx of inspiration we get from their work. It comes from the energy they bring and the willingness to keep working on things that are really complicated in a View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
money and take loans out of a common fund and pay it back with interest. For these women who have nothing, this was the first time it was implemented successfully,” she says. Ruhr returned to her native... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
system because there will be fewer obstacles standing in the way of physician innovations, and because — if markets follow money, which we teach in business school — the successful management of chronic diseases and conditions is where the View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
travels to Russia three times a year in conjunction with her work for the Russian Medical Fund (www.russmed.com), a nonprofit foundation she launched to finance the purchase of medical equipment and supplies for the hospital in St.... 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
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
competition so that I could then win some money that I could use to fund the company. Morrell: Aldi and his team won that competition and $25,000 dollars for the company. It was also their introduction to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
a degree in psychology, "I thought I was going to go to Peace Corps, but for family reasons I wanted to stay in the United States," Brochu says. "So I thought, 'If I'm going to stay in the United States, I'm going to get the most funding... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
fundraise, honestly. So we raised a bit of money in 2015, just a friends-and-family round. We raised from an angel in 2016, and we closed a seed round in 2020, after a pretty long slog of raising money. Morrell: Without an influx of VC... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
you have an incredibly creative person with a great idea, and you can't find the money to fund it," notes Vicki Wilson (MBA 1985), CFO of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. Her colleague down... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding partnerships, and structured responses to competitive pressures. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
California, Boston, sometimes London,” recalls Gotsch. “Nobody was looking locally.” Gotsch is president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City, which invests in local ventures to create jobs and grow the Big Apple’s economy.... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
fund raising to create a similar campaign that's focused on preventing the use of opioids. Can you just talk a little bit about the meth campaign and how you're going to transition that to preventing the use of opioids? Langford: Sure.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
remember that business is all about working with people, be they your associates or customers." DANIEL GREGORY Wesleyan University, 1951 B.S., Psychology "Companies don't grow and succeed through some sort of miracle or because you put a lot of View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
money left to build the necessary prototype. I went on to found a microelectronics startup, but will always regret that I couldn’t make a go of my dream. For those who do, build your own walk-away fund and... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
reactions to the tragedy and to share emotional support. Food and clothing drives were organized on campus, and the School set up a matching fund for contributions made by students, faculty, and staff to the American Red Cross Liberty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
rest of us—keep up with technology’s relentless march? Have we gone as far as the eye can see? Told in five parts, Becoming, Transforming, Observing, Showing, and Curating, this book shows how each revolution in seeing has determined who we have become—and how we might... View Details