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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo Ventures This is the most... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Business School's commitment to international business education has expanded. When Dean Kim B. Clark announced plans last fall for the opening of an HBS research facility in Hong Kong, he underscored the importance of the School's Global... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
affiliate, the Civic Capital Corporation, founded and became the overseer of an operation called ReSTART Central. ReSTART assigns business-savvy volunteers to work with donors and to act as troubleshooting... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
Thus continued the protracted struggle with his chief, who dreaded losing his unmatched talents. To understand how strongly Hamilton felt about this is to grasp the essence of his character. He had a passionate drive to achieve what in his time was View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
typically banks and insurance companies - in return for their upfront capital." Designed to attract private investment, the program is a proven success with more capital chasing it than can currently be accommodated. Supporters are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
problem,” says Amadio. “Although capital is important, fewer than half of the entrepreneurs said that the major barrier was money. The majority of the problems they were facing involved other types of access: to mentorship with deep... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
are vivid against a December snowstorm swirling outside the classroom windows. (He often uses a sliced-open orange as an example — but it’s the holiday season, so the cactus seems appropriate.) Brandishing the plant, he says, “Now we’re fooling around with another... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Boston, working at Wohl Capital, a hedge fund. At night, I’d call her, and using Yahoo! Doodle as a shared notepad, I’d tutor her in math via computer and telephone. Other cousins and their schoolmates soon wanted help, too. It was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America’s Favorite Beer By Anson Frericks (MBA 2011) Threshold Editions Anson Frericks, a former president at Anheuser-Busch—formerly the home of America’s most popular brewery—watched as... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Supplemental Airlines, which had the license to do that, but in most cases they weren't doing that. So we were able to acquire a little airline called Zantop, and in many ways, that was the most important deal that we did because it... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
his motorbike into in the late 2000s. READ MORE [Sound of motor bike] Aldi Haryopratomo: Hi, my name is Aldi. I am the CEO of Gopay, and also the founder of Ruma, or now called Mapan. Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA 2011) Aldi Haryopratomo (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
powers so much individual prosperity. As the cartel prospers, homebuyers and sellers alike suffer its rigidity. Ryan and Tamny call for the evisceration of realtor commissions—the only price in all of View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
what they should be doing with their lives. Louis B. Cooper (MBA 1988) was among them. Until earlier in the year, he had been managing partner at Anvil Capital Management, a hedge fund he had launched a year prior following a successful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man between corporate America and the U.S. government. President... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
HBS benefactor Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) and then HBS Dean Jay Light. In a single year, while leading the HBS capital campaign, Stevenson made 277 one-on-one alumni visits. In 1983, a third development, especially significant for HBS, were... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
establish new norms of collaboration and respect. Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest By Ted Seides (MBA 1999) Harriman House The chief investment officers (CIOs) at endowments, foundations, family... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details