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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
All in Good Time
O’Kelly’s mind, as is, ironically, maintaining balance in her own life. “Amid ups and downs, I do feel like I’m achieving it,” says O’Kelly, who declined venture capital funding so that she could maintain more control over how quickly the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
reap appropriate rewards. Consumer Capitalism by Gunnar Trumbull (Cornell University Press) The author investigates the origins of national systems of consumer protection in France and Germany, where consumer groups and producers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for water services and wastewater treatment for 17 million people in 1,800 communities in the United States and Canada. American Water typically owns and/or operates the municipal water system in a community, while the community continues... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good
Fran Seegull (MBA 1998) seeks to mobilize the business world to adjust its thinking on socially mindful investing, also known as impact investing, and "use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
govern the world of atomic and subatomic particles, are inherently probabilistic. Until the state of a qubit is measured, it is neither 0 nor 1, but rather some distribution of probabilities that it could be either, all existing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
interested in what they were doing and wanted to stay in touch. In subsequent conversations in the spring of 2010, the Secklers told Williams about HT-100. Williams went to work, offering the venture capital group that held the compound a... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
Robb Turner (MBA 1990) and his wife, Lydia, were looking for a place to build a family vacation retreat in 2009 when they found 800 acres of pristine hardwood forest in rural Dover Plains, New York. “The land was stunning—completely untouched,” says the cofounder of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Salter New Head of External Relations
corporate, and institutional fronts, and I look forward to working with him.” An immediate priority, says Salter, is to complete the School’s $500 million capital campaign, which continues through 2005. Initially, he will focus on raising... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Three Decades of Change and Counting
decision to return the fellowship and pursue internship opportunities in consumer products. An experience that began with SVMP was ultimately life-changing for me." Eric Calderon Photo courtesy of Eric Calderon Eric Calderon (SVMP 2008, MBA 2013) Founder, TXE View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
(http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2009/june/toobig.html) is the best way to head off future financial meltdowns and deal with institutions that are too big to fail. Specifically, he advocates: higher capital requirements; leverage... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
didn’t fix it and had twelve years of stagnation.” To avoid a similar fate, the Treasury’s support of ailing U.S. banks was inevitable, he says. Now, at 69, Glauber teaches one course a year on regulating capital markets, which he says is... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
kind of hilarious to me. But that was then, and now it’s semi-communist China that’s keeping American capitalism afloat. And Mr. Ji’s notion of banking was shaped in a different era, when banking was still a proudly conservative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
Jeannie graduated) and a training program for humani tarian relief workers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where they serve as cochairs of the school’s capital campaign. To learn more about the fellowship challenge,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
EL-HAGE: Generous alumni support has helped make HBS a “great institution.” Seven years ago, Nabil El-Hage took a one-semester sabbatical from his high-pressure day job to teach two finance courses at HBS. He enjoyed the experience so much that he quit to teach full... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group
28 publicly listed Tata enterprises, with a combined market capitalization of some $100 billion. Tata Group companies, taken together, had total revenues of $67.4 billion in 2009–10, 57 percent of which accrued from business outside... View Details
Keywords: Tata Hall
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
worked for Duke Energy as assistant to the company’s CEO after graduation, but in 2013 he and McCready reunited and cofounded Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on funding utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina. The firm invested more than $80 million... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
States to the Jordanians. Proof of the venture's strategic benefits are apparent in sales that top $10-million in the first year of operation and are expected to exceed $25-million in the second. Collaborative ventures such as Century... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
to five local nonprofit groups, including the National Capital Chapter of the American Red Cross. CSI also plans to organize weekend volunteer projects in order to offer club members a variety of options for giving back to the community.... View Details