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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
this platform so that other papers can come in? Maybe that means bringing in local investors and building a cap pooled fund at the state level so we can make other acquisitions. Maybe that means transitioning to a nonprofit, or spinning... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
than feel limited by what seems possible. They are also clear that this is a moment for their business to be used as a tool for activism, not activism as a tool for business. Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) Chairman and cofounder, High Meadows Foundation and High Meadows... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
state resources,” he says. “I saw an unbelievable group of people trying to provide kids with a quality education.” A longtime supporter of education, Pechter had given time and money to scholarship funds in... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
view is that venture capital is a commodity. If you look at the size of the funds that are being put together today, it's not difficult to put money together. "Traditional venture capitals need to move... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, and hedge funds... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
change the way a charitable organization solicits donations. “Donors don’t just want to buy medical equipment and supplies. They want to buy outcomes” Rather than asking for funds toward a new building or a supply of medicine, Partners in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
the bone marrow transplant. So I'm in a new country that's not my own. I don't have money and I have to raise 150,000 pounds from a standing start, otherwise my daughter would die. And that feeling of desperation, that feeling of, “Who do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
private equity firm, offered both funding and expertise on scaling businesses in Africa. For NBA Africa, scaling requires building local, on-the-ground relationships, region by region. For NBA Africa, scaling requires building local,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
leisure class passengers could adjust the amount of light coming in by rotating the inner window pane. Strong sales particularly in sunglass lenses and camera filters enabled the nascent corporation to fund further research and... View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
of his employees. It’s also delivered by way of a program that creates access to earned wages before payday to alleviate the need for payday loans, a commitment to annual wage increases, and an emergency assistance fund to get people... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
longer take pride and satisfaction in the one little fragment that is his part of the whole ball of wax.” And if money is at the root of much evil, then business inevitably carries a taint. In MacDonald’s fiction, business is a kind of... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
effective solution for companies. She co-wrote the journal article with HBS doctoral student Grace Cormier, as well as three employees of Happify, Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, and Julia Stafford. Happify, which funded the... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Opportunities and Challenges Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi (MBA 1989) No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info In this session, Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi will explore investing in energy transition through a case discussion on TPG Rise Climate, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
"Online traders have become a potent force and one that I believe is having an impact on mutual funds. Clearly some money that would have been destined for mutual funds is not coming in because a portion of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
of picking winners in the world of tech innovation, and in so doing it could also boost companies unlikely to otherwise get backing from the largely Bay Area–based venture capital firms that serve as gatekeepers between startups and the View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
initiative, whether a simple project or a grand gamble. Money Mavericks: Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager by Lars Kroijer (MBA ’98) (FT Prentice Hall) Kroijer charts the founding, rise, and eventual... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed, the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website, and he takes the company’s slogan—“Love Mondays”—to heart. Even so, he admits he has a side hustle. When... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes View Details