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- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
and motivating others. She recruited her brothers to tutor students, her Princeton alumni club to paint classrooms, her investment banker friends to help write a budget, and members of the community to organize fundraisers. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
glass, paper, and metal for recycling, as she points out; one day textiles will be just another stream. In the meantime, Looper is investing in tech to innovate its collection and near-infrared sorting processes to improve outcomes,... View Details
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil service industry. "We all believe in and support what Kim Clark is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Bridging the ESG Data Gap
entrepreneurs-in-residence. Murday was at the i-lab the day Harvard’s campus-wide COVID-19 shutdown was announced. “That was a curveball,” she notes, but adds that the Harvard Innovation Labs moved quickly to set up virtual resources. She credits Rebekah Emanuel (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
We introduced “RC Pilots” to integrate into the curriculum several important topics related to business and societal changes. One is the short, intensive RC course called Social Purpose of the Firm, which speaks to the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
INVESTING IN BRAZIL: A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil. This past spring, three separate donors... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
fees to students with the greatest financial need—roughly 10 percent of the student body. In the past year, Kierstead noted that two courses were introduced into the RC curriculum: Social Purpose of the Firm, which examines the role of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Leading Businesses in a Web3 World
industries ranging from finance to health care and supply chain management to social media. What’s next? And how can we prepare for this revolution? HBS faculty and alumni are working at the forefront of this technology, focused on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
announcement. But the rats don’t run the city; we do.”—went viral, cementing her reputation as “the rat lady” among her fellow citizens. “I don’t expect everyone to change their behavior overnight,” Tisch concedes. “But it’s something that over time will make a... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
in Africa. “Why? Because they’re getting returns,” she says. “We’ve shown that you can merge impact work with investing without sacrificing returns. But you can’t just arrive and set up. Africa is 54... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
energy and environmental issues and led him to launch a think tank focused on how to shift energy investment to bring about more energy efficiency. Eager to put his analysis into practice, Sant and a partner founded Applied Energy... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS
MBA 2013. Marisa Kozachenok (MBA 2014): And I am Marisa Kozachenok, HBS 2014. Dmitry: I was in my second year. I think I had six weeks before leaving campus, and I'd never met Marissa before. She was a year below, and we never overlapped through View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
students, Gerardo Lietz notes that they didn’t fully comprehend how it has affected the economy and consumer behaviors until they were in country. “They were surprised by the extent to which the cultural and economic differences there had an View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Engaging Students More Deeply
of businesses’ pursuit of profits and their impact on their communities. “The multimedia components of these cases make the students more invested in the issues because they really get a sense of who the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
investment in the city’s human capital, requiring work that is much more subtle, nuanced, and difficult to see. This is Chattanooga’s, and the nation’s, toughest challenge to date—one that will require the collaborative focus of leaders... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974
came in the field of health care, the firm’s investments now include software, communications technology, semiconductors and electronics, and financial services. With nearly $15 billion under management and over 140 employees, Summit has... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, the View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Spice’s website and social media presence at night, while Jung went to Afghanistan so she and Alaniz could learn more about how they might set up a supply chain to import the slightly sweet and floral saffron threads used extensively in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie