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- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
efforts, serve as a sounding board, and share best practices. We also hope that in addition to providing their advice and expertise, alumni will want to support the REP. While the School has committed $25 million over 10 years to the effort, alumni who contribute to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors map these trends and profile the battle between low-cost index and exchange-traded funds, on the one hand, and the higher-fee hedge funds and private equity, on the other. “I have no rituals for... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she opened with View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
their deep purpose? And where does it come from? Gulati: One of the questions people ask is that, well, maybe if I’m a startup and I’m just starting out, I just got to get my business idea together and I need to get funding and then we’ll... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
was asked to take a posting in Bulgaria. And Searl came along and found herself, relatively quickly, leading the local office of the Bulgarian American Enterprise Funds, which was a private equity fund set up by the US government, to help... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
because corruption had destroyed her hopes for her country and her son’s future. “People in poor countries are not resigned to corruption, they actively despise it,” Baker says. “It is rooted in the weak rule of law, not poverty. Good... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
bridge and an express railway link to the central business district, represent a $20.1-billion investment. Two-thirds of the funds are coming from government, Lam noted, while the remainder is being sourced from the private sector. Philip... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
your 10th anniversary with MaiTai Global this year. Tell me how MaiTai got started. Bill Tai: So MaiTai, first of all, it's a very unusual group. It's a collection of athletes, and entrepreneurs, and innovators. And we have active... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
bus. START SMALL, THINK BIG: Clients of Compartamos Banco, a microfinance institution based in Mexico City that funds entrepreneurial activity in the areas of agriculture, crafts, and consumer products and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
I’ve always loved taking an active role in growth enterprises. Working on companies like JetBlue and Office Depot was fun, interesting, and fulfilling. Now I feel like I’m back in those early days but on the nonprofit side, helping... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
works with several metropolitan areas, including Boston, Hartford, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and St. Louis - and a $130 million private equity fund to make capital available to inner-city companies. Each year, the initiative partners with... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
something other than just recruitment activities would be necessary to create the kind of progressive change needed at HBS. At UC Berkeley he and I agreed that we would combine our efforts to usher in an organization to be our collective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
from the very beginning.” With the generous support of Howard Cox (MBA ’69), HBS offered matching scholarship funds and needs-based financial aid to broaden the program’s reach and impact. Once in the classroom, participants work their... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
1969 (After active duty, rose to rank of Lt. Colonel in Reserves) "No matter what business you're in, there is nothing more important than integrity and the reputation of your company. The post-bubble economy notwithstanding, there is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
accounting developments, as well as techniques for improving group process — like a Six Sigma Black Belt for directors. A fee of one one-hundredth of one cent per share on the current volume of the U.S. stock exchanges would yield about $50 million annually — more than... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
basic needs, we're all going to be instead just building armor plates for our Teslas. We're going to be living in a society we don't want to live in. At the same time, being a mother, it activated all of my motherly instincts and the... View Details