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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
devastates Kobe 1997 Founds Rakuten 2000 Rakuten IPO 2010 Institutes “Englishnization” at Rakuten 2012 Rakuten leads $100 million Pinterest investment In 1995, the city of Kobe, where Hiroshi Mikitani grew up, was devastated by what was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact screens, leaving no doubt that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the United States. That trend will continue, they contend. Despite many of the recent excesses in the venture industry and the slide in the economy — and more specifically in the venture-drenched tech sector — Gompers and Lerner assert that venture capital View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Research Available on World Wide Web
Pondering a business problem or management issue? Imagine with a computer keystroke or two being able to find synopses of Harvard Business School research on hundreds of topics. Would you like to know more, for example, about the View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
de-risks the entry for other investment opportunities. “At the end of the day, that helps people who are living on $1 a day increase their livelihoods by maybe a factor of 5x. We are, of course, focused on... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
two being able to find synopses of Harvard Business School research on hundreds of topics. Would you like to know more, for example, about the investment and financing decisions that are made during the development of entrepreneurial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
listening—is one of Ratio’s key differentiators. We are finding ways to connect with groups that are of particular interest to our clients, such as women in investing positions.” “The impact of millennials, the #MeToo movement, and an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with offices in New York, London, and Sydney. Generation considers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Lecturer Robert Pozen and his coauthor detail how mutual funds are marketed, regulated, and invested in stocks and bonds. They describe the critical factors needed to choose a specific fund, including what... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Records an “Excellent” Year
the primary factors driving the School’s success. Consolidated revenue for the fiscal year — which ended June 30, 2007 — grew by $37 million, or 10.1 percent, to $405 million, while expenses increased by $30 million, or 8.7 percent, to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
entrepreneurs in an organized way,” says Arnold Kroll, an investment banker at Lehman Brothers who worked with ARD. Doriot was not a physically imposing fellow, but he exuded a magnetic aura. “It was almost like knowing someone like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
around the globe spend nearly $10 trillion on project- related activities. Yet, as a new book by Cathleen Benko (MBA 1989) and HBS professor Warren McFarlan makes clear, project- and technologyrelated investments too often are made in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
because it doesn’t factor in people who have abandoned their job searches. Few predict the situation will improve soon: Almost half (47 percent) of the HBS alumni surveyed for the report expected US firms to employ fewer people in three... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of the factors that drive success in an industry that attracts 65 percent of MBA graduates from leading business schools — many of whom eventually leave to run organizations of their own. With revenues approaching a trillion dollars,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
deep into the tournament a team will go, because that will affect the number of over-the-air impressions that are generated for the brand. They must consider many other factors such as the global appeal of an opponent or of a particular... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
investment bank in the world. Ellis, a strategy consultant to Goldman Sachs for over thirty years, explains how it rose to leadership in the United States and abroad, made many partners great fortunes, and became a leader in IPOs, M&A,... View Details
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
backgrounds or experience levels of the top management team -- the CEO, CFO, and chief scientific officer, in particular -- aren't really the deciding factors for investment bankers," explains HBS associate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross