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- 14 Oct 2014
- News
Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships
Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976
fund at HBS “to add fuel to the fire that kindles the entrepreneurial spirit.” In a career that has included leadership roles at firms such as Blyth Eastman Paine Webber, Hambrecht & Quist, and Volpe Brown Whelan & Company—as well as his... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
to make a go of it. They raised $500,000 from family and friends in 2019; picked up another $75,000 by winning the alumni track of the HBS New Venture Competition in 2020; and raised $4.5 million in seed... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
diverse country. On the funding side, you’re building both an investment thesis and an impact model. What does each of those look like and what happens in the space between? Yeah, if we were solely impact... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
of the business. I help her with MAYU’s financials, commercials, fund raising, etc. A lot of what I do for MAYU stems from my learnings from classes like TEM, FMSF, and the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
the same time are comfortable with all of the things we're doing to reduce risk." There's plenty of risk involved in biotech startups. The data might not pan out. The funds... View Details
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Wilder House | About
project, primarily in emerging markets. About the Name William P. Wilder Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of William P. Wilder (1922-2019), a prominent Canadian executive, financier, philanthropist, and steadfast HBS... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business failures Introduction of Federal Deposit Insurance SEC established Federal regulations prohibit false advertising Influence: Low 40 1940 s 19 Military spending explodes... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
will have extraordinary impact, and funding the development of these platforms and user networks within which learning tools can be exchanged should be financially rewarding for investors. Q: How would you... View Details
- Web
ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the 1930s, investments were generally targeted for trusts, pensions, and other conservative funds rather than emerging industries. 32 The urgent military needs during World War II had fostered... View Details
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Faculty - Private Capital Project
board member in the New York offices of Bridges Fund Management, a global impact investment firm based in London and New York. Brian has over 15 years of impact investing... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Zuboff puts it, “our lives are scraped and sold to fund their freedom and our subjugation, their knowledge and our ignorance about what they know.” “Surveillance capitalists are familiar to us... They regard users not as consumers but as... View Details
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Drew Keller
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? We’re at an interesting time in history where the role of business in society is being challenged and the assumptions on which we have built our economic system are being questioned.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association
gender equity at HBS and beyond. We have an incredible list of sponsors who, through their funding and support, help us deliver extensive programming for all members. In the 2023-2024 school year, our focus... View Details
- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
that the taxes they endorsed started out small in scope and size but have multiplied by a factor of eight as a share of our economy, have we gone off course? After all, when an income tax was introduced in... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 23 May 2018
- News
Carla A. Harris, MBA 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1962 Born, Port Arthur, Texas 1984 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard University 1984 Joins Booz Allen Hamilton, Consultant 1987 Earns MBA 1987 Joins Morgan Stanley, Associate 1994 Joins St. Charles Borromeo Catholic... View Details
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
cohort on campus in the fall of 2015, he went to Silicon Valley to raise funds for Shield AI. The Tsengs and a third cofounder, Andrew Reiter, pitched to 30 investors. All 30 said no, with one suggesting... View Details
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Cotting House | About
graduate of Harvard College, Cotting served on the HBS Visiting Committee from 1943 to 1966. In addition to donating the funds to construct Cotting House, he established a permanent charitable trust—one... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
by Dean Nitin Nohria’s leadership and the fact that health care is becoming an important part of the vision for the future of HBS,” says Mary Ellen, who with Jeffrey served as gift cochairs for their... View Details
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
the School will need many years from now. He notes that since his gift won’t benefit the School until after his passing, and because he is confident the future stewards of HBS will use his support where it will have the biggest impact, he... View Details