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- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
Summing Up In state capitalism, is the operative word "capitalism"? State capitalism is neither to be applauded nor feared, judging from the tone of responses to this month's column. That is, "as long as the key decisions are in favor of making View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
Georges F. Doriot
Doriot founded the first and one of the most successful publicly traded venture capital corporations in the United States. While American R&D funded numerous business entities, Doriot’s big success came in 1957 when he provided the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
as champions—to put money in a match fund set up for a cause they want to support. That sets in motion a series of steps that can potentially increase the original contribution by as much as five times. “For... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- News
A Common Purpose
completely helpless,” Barnett says. “We wanted to do something positive and meaningful.” Section E rallied, and with 61 percent participation, a fund designated for HBS’s work in global business leadership was established in memory of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
who has been involved in HBS fundraising since graduating, and together they forged a cross-class connection that has resulted in significant support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
attracting 25 people from their network, who each bring in another 25 people from their networks, and so on. At that scale, they say, annual funding could be, ultimately, in the billions. “The Goodness Web will put that View Details
- 28 Nov 2018
- News
Elevating Women at Fidelity
of sexual harassment by a junior female employee. While the firm had named women to leadership positions and fund management roles before the misconduct allegations, the incident spurred Johnson to look even more closely at female talent... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the money you raised may be helping to fund a first-of-its kind clinical collaboration between a nonprofit... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
platform. We’ve created a really good marketplace, and match funding is the key that unlocks a lot of the potential.” The Big Give now works by asking big donors—referred to as champions—to put money in a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
visits often require bus fare—while the Barared booths can be accessed on weekends and off-hours. And customers feel safe topping up their mobile phones here, says Reyes. They tell her that other companies take their money but fail to... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
Education (PiE), a foundation that provides nearly three-quarters of the flexible funding available to the city’s cash-strapped schools. Scheel’s wife, Susan, was an early leader of PiE, which raises supplemental View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment managers to reload... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to beat the market in a big way.... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
industry is hard,” she says. “You need tons of money to get started. Almost all restaurants go broke after the first year. And very few people get beyond one or two locations.” Azuero was intrigued, yet it wasn’t until the pair met for... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
opinion is that the Administration should be candid and recognize that social security is a TAX used to fund a basic retirement benefit—the pension equivalent of food stamps. Higher income retirees should not receive a social security... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
school , they would have up to 10 years to use the scholarship money to fund additional education. Some might choose apprenticeships, others trade schools, and still others two- or four-year colleges. Even... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
pan-European funds and global private equity organizations), panelists pointed to corporate carve-outs and restructuring as hope for future payoffs. When I arrived in 1989, people were saying that there was too much View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
Institute and The Jimmy Fund in Boston. “We’re trying to set a record, but the main purpose of what we are doing is to raise money for pediatric cancer research,” says Serafini. View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
in a four-month user-experience design course underwritten by Social Finance, which also provided access to emergency funds for basic necessities such as food, housing, and child care, as well as access to a social worker and job coach.... View Details