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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
he explains, "We had our best year ever. We borrowed in US dollars and invested in Brazilian reais. It was incredible." By 1997, the once small Pactual had grown into a large institution. When his business partner wanted to expand into... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
between generating wealth for the firm’s investment professionals via the fee stream, which is strictly a function of how many dollars you manage, and the investors in the firm — the so-called limited... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week training session, will then be able to sell eyeglasses for less... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount banks can borrow for every View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
freelance designers submit potential logos, and companies pay a few hundred dollars for the logo they like best. Throughout the process, designers receive one- to five-star ratings from the clients on their work, and iterate on their... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
and deliver those dollars directly to people in need, no strings attached. The initial response to the idea was lukewarm. GiveDirectly and a handful of other groups experimenting with cash payments were a direct challenge to both the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground
global players with hundreds of millions, and sometimes billions, of dollars in sales. Their middle-ground strategies emerged from Israel’s small size, relative isolation, and cadre of executives accustomed to military maneuvering. Ofek,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
Stuart Bradford and challenged him to come up with an appropriate cover image. We think he nailed it. Fissures running through the iconic dollar sign depict an economy badly in need of repair. The image sets the stage for the eclectic set... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Does My Résumé Work?
narrative about themselves. How long will this take? It depends. Career changes take longer than transitioning between related jobs. “My general advice,” said Radtke, “is that it takes seventy meaningful conversations to turn up three... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
financing now, this is the second fund. You closed the first one in 2013, launched the second in 2017, and you started with seed funding. And that seems to reflect this kind of movement up the ladder that you've seen generally in the... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
generated by their attendance. A single attendee causes (on average) the emission of nearly a ton and a half of carbon, mostly through travel. For attendees who elect the $20 carbon offset as part of their reunion package, Patagonia Sur... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
deeper medical research — could change as much as attitudes about smoking? Guesstimates as to the value of the sports business range into the hundreds of billions of dollars — could that juggernaut be affected simply by parents refusing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Better Mousetraps: At Product Design Fair, Student Ideas Get Real
become apparent," Thomke elaborated, "rather than out in the real world, where millions of dollars are potentially at stake. They get a lot of theory in class, but here they learn by doing." Indeed, some of the eighty students may well... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Every year billions of dollars are granted to scientists based on the evaluation of peer-reviewed proposals. The final decisions about whose project gets funded,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Scott Royster (MBA 1992) cofounded Maarifa Education to help provide high-quality schooling for Africans. “In Africa, roughly 5 percent of the population has completed university. We want to be part of the catalyst of taking that to 20, 30, even 40 percent in a View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
of these buildings are functionally obsolete,” says John Macomber, a senior lecturer in finance at HBS and the coauthor of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well. The former chairman and CEO of a large View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- News
Ratan Tata, Visionary Business Leader, Dies at 86
Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who was one of India’s most admired leaders, died on October 9, in Mumbai. The Tata Group announced his death in a statement. He served as chairman and chief executive of the Tata Group from 1991 to 2012, during which time profits multiplied... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
HBS's Unique Economic Model
potential. While the endowment largely comprises restricted funds that likely will generate only modest returns in the next decade, gifts to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation (formerly known as the Dean's Fund) can be used in... View Details