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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
painfully with finances every time a family member gets an unexpected diagnosis. We started Hive Health to make health insurance more accessible to the employees (and their loved ones) of small- to medium-size businesses, and we did so in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Studying how society shapes market practices, government policies
Harvard Business School Professor Matt Weinzierl talks about his research into the ways market practices and government policies are shaped by society. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers strategies for moving beyond a career or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
urbanization, resource scarcity, and the private financing of public infrastructure,” remarks Macomber. “When those three factors come together they alter conventional conceptions of ‘real estate’ and the built environment.” Dharavi... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
per student per year— the loans he would need to take out to finance the rest of his education and living expenses would limit his future career choices. Nevertheless, he decided to pursue his MBA. Tristan... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
strictures, the lack of schools, and her poverty, her education almost certainly will end there. Her family will be reluctant to let her go away to school because they will not be able to prot ect her.” The eldest of five children, Van... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
Microsystems, and Amazon.com, to name a few — is not surprising given his thoughtfulness about technology. "The Internet," says Doerr, who is also an education activist, "may be evolutionary in its effect on business, but it is... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
deliver clean water. That is not just a water problem but also an education problem, Ferguson notes, because a student who is severely dehydrated or afflicted with diarrhea can’t learn effectively. Water also can be an issue of gender... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
Apkon: With Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg, celebrating the Jacob Burns Film Center's 10th anniversary. Stephen Apkon’s first movie memory is a little hazy. He’s pretty sure it was Mary Poppins, showing as the first half of a drive-in double feature (children were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
is the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and head of the School's Entrepre-neurial Unit. An HBS faculty member for over 25 years, Applegate also serves as faculty chair of the Business Owner Portfolio of Executive View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
representation on private and public boards. “Our goal is to get 21 Latino placements on boards in 2021,” says Lulu Curiel (MBA 2010) , president of Ivy Advisors, who organized and hosted the webinars with Melissa Hart (MBA 2017), senior View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
more you try to dictate, the harder it is to inspire creative work." Entrepreneurial Finance Since 1985, when the Entrepreneurial Finance elective was first introduced by William Sahlman, Dimitri V.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
You’re an Old Fuelie
For his first year at HBS, Jan Hyde (MBA ’66) arrived in style, driving all the way from San Francisco to Soldiers Field behind the wheel of a silver-and-white 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, a fuel-injected model known to aficionados as a “Fuelie.” Fuel injection in those... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
I run. Because I'm not a truly "public" person, I held back until literally the last moment. "OK, I'll run," I finally said, and before I had a chance to change my mind, the press knew, and I was committed. How did you finance your... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
sexual harassment and double standards, the gender gap continues to hinder the advancement of women in the professional world. In Digital Goddess, Victoria Montgomery-Brown shares her story in an entertaining and educational light. Told... 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