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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Bootstrapper’s Playbook for Breakthrough Success on a Shoestring Budget by Marty Schultz (OPM 31, 2002) Self-published Marty Schultz is a bootstrapping expert: he's bootstrapped five highly successful companies in his career. He is a mentor to entrepreneurs, an angel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
again with respect to some of the issues raised by China.” Innovation and continuous improvement are the keys to moving to a stronger competitive position, he says. “We changed more than the Japanese did. The Chinese are more... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
concludes by examining how private equity investors raise funds and how they successfully manage their private equity firms. This text is an excellent resource for investment bankers and consultants as well... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
capital, and because many smallholders don't have clear title to their land—and therefore no collateral—banks are loath to lend them the funds they need. To unlock financing for his initiative, Masha turned to his friend Ladi Balogun (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Olympic committee staff and volunteers; 35 new or modified venues; 35 training sites; 8 Olympic villages; 11.2 million tickets; and 750,000 nights' worth of accommodations. But perhaps the most significant number of all has been the $1.7 billion ACOG has had to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
that bridges neurology care for Midtown, Emory University Hospital, and Wesley Woods.” Questions raised by the assembled group make it clear that getting from the point of analysis to execution will take some serious work. “This can’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of... 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 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
inspector for the government, and his mother raised their three children. During his years at Burnaby South High School, he didn’t establish himself as a member of any particular clique, instead associating with many different kinds of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
between what business is and what it can be, the actual versus the ideal. Every one of us can contribute to widening that gap, or to narrowing it by raising the bar. We will have countless opportunities to choose. That is really what I... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
$1,500 he and two MIT friends scraped together from personal funds and a $10,000 prize for winning MIT’s business plan contest. In 1996, the youthful trio sold the company to Artisoft for $13 million. Prior to HBS, Cassidy had earned two... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques, investment misdeeds and regulatory reform, government economic policy, the development of investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
poverty, education, and infant mortality rates, the ARC and the word salad of state and local agencies that it funds have failed to redress the enduring social and economic problems faced by communities like Harlan. So when Marietta... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
which were turning to industrial planning, Keynesian deficits, and high inflation to stimulate their economies, Hong Kong’s civil servants rejected the idea that governments should play a role in industrial planning, the idea of spending more than the government View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
advantage — hundreds of billions of federal bailout funds unavailable to smaller firms in financial trouble, says Moss. “That gives big, complex firms a dramatic advantage that is inappropriate,” he explains. Since last fall, there’s also... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
entrepreneurs had a difficult, if not impossible, time raising capital. Banks were ultraconservative, reluctant to lend money to unproven ventures. Sure, rich families like the Rockefellers invested in new companies, but they were few and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
you have an incredibly creative person with a great idea, and you can't find the money to fund it," notes Vicki Wilson (MBA 1985), CFO of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago. Her colleague down Michigan Avenue, Field Museum of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
tendencies that can cloud our financial judgment, explains why index funds are a savvy choice, and reveals secrets like why it’s better to wait until age 70 to receive Social Security benefits―along with the calculations that make this... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
startup formation from founding, funding, management, and finding an exit. With successful tech entrepreneurs interviewed and featured throughout, From Startup to Exit will help you understand exactly what tech startups must do to succeed in all phases, from idea stage... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
doubt eased the fundraising that followed. Almost a dozen major movie studios participated in the initial round of funding in the summer of 2018, including Disney, Entertainment One, Fox, ITV, Lionsgate, MGM, NBCUniversal, Sony, Viacom,... View Details