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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
imbalance. Gates noted that about half of the foundation’s annual grants, or $1.6 billion, is devoted to global health, with around $800 million each devoted to grassroots financial services in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
health-care innovations that offer good value for the money. It was in Africa that we first saw sensible, low-cost health-insurance plans that protect people against financially catastrophic expenses and offer policies that reward the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
to his home country of South Africa and established Allan Gray Investment Counsel, a firm dedicated to meeting clients’ needs, including delivering superior returns through rigorous company research. While many financial institutions then... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Executive Pay: Onward & Upward
1994 Under intense pressure from industry, regulators decide stock options should not be reported as a compensation expense but as footnotes in financial statements. 2002 Following the collapse of Enron and WorldCom, Congress enacts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
MBA 1992) recently contributed $12 million to support fellowships at HBS, the largest single gift for financial aid the School has ever received, and also donated $500,000 to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Their generous gift... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
services produced. (GameStop, for example, is up more than 900 percent YTD.) “That means, in the medium to long term, these stocks are likely to fall in value, which is not a great recipe for some of these excited, first-time investors,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance After decades of liberalization, controls on cross-border capital movements are again being examined by financial institutions, governments, and policymakers around the globe. Associate... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
sales, Anthony Curry Harris, and his director of international sales, Damaune Journey (MBA 2005)—are hoping to buy CSECO. Harris says that would certainly give him more time to serve on boards, such as the nonprofit SFJazz, which recently opened a $64 million... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
Difference stories of alumni, faculty, and student impact. Also, so far, more than 22,500 alumni and friends have made gifts of all sizes toward the Campaign’s financial goals. Continuing the inspiring and celebratory nature of the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
HBS doesn’t get the credit it deserves for nurturing the entrepreneurial ambitions of its MBAs. Too many people, MBA applicants included, still regard the School as primarily a powerhouse in financial View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
Illustration by Gisela Goppel When Michael Trejo (MBA 2013) was a freshman at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2005, he almost lost his full scholarship. “I just really lacked direction,” says Trejo. That’s when he joined ASU’s Hispanic Students Business Association... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
retired and who can have financial security in their golden years because their finances were managed well. It could be a young person buying their first stock. It could be a small-business owner needing capital. If those people couldn’t... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1998
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Lisa Frankenberg
she had serendipitously met when he was visiting Prague. With Luther's financial support, the Prague Post, a weekly publication emphasizing local and regional business news, went on the newsstands in October 1991, and the 23-year-old... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
environmental damage and resource depletion. That, of course, is a serious matter in itself, but it could also cause political reactions harmful to capitalism. Other possible disruptions to the operation of capitalism were seen in the following: the global View Details