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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Brick Bank” in partnership with a building supply retailer that would enable local residents to invest their savings in inflation-proof building materials, thus accumulating the necessary materials over time. “We take some things for granted in developed countries,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
A Legacy of Support
Robert’s memory of that time is filled with emotion: “I walked into Ted Levitt’s Marketing class, saw ‘Jonathan Ariel Kraft, March 4, 1964’ written on the board, and received a standing ovation. It’s a moment I will never forget.” The... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
the region. “They have to be a part of this project from day one,” AlMadani says. The key to funding those things is tourism, AlMadani says. It’s a brand-new venture for Saudi Arabia, which began offering tourist visas for the first time... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
system because there will be fewer obstacles standing in the way of physician innovations, and because — if markets follow money, which we teach in business school — the successful management of chronic diseases and conditions is where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Company magazine as one of the top socially entrepreneurial organizations in America, Year Up was started with private funding and is supported by corporate partnerships. Its business model is based in part on View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
as far as testing a prototype in Canada before technical problems torpedoed the project. He pursued another promising technology that had been developed in the 1980s by researchers at NYU, but money was a problem: The hedge View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war left his father... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
have big consequences for how people spend the money and its impact on their businesses and their livelihoods.” “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the structure of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
After sixteen years at the editorial helm, Navasky became the magazine’s owner in 1994 thanks to a $1 million transaction largely funded by supporters including Paul Newman and E.L. Doctorow. As The Nation’s publisher, he then turned to a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
involved with grassroots organizations in the Los Angeles area such as the Coalition for Clean Air and Heal the Bay, which is dedicated to cleaning up Santa Monica Bay. Through the Horn Foundation, which they founded in 1989, the couple also contributes View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
can cause pneumonia; it had previously only been recommended for children. (The recommendation was later softened when it became clear that vaccinating children naturally led to fewer cases in older adults.) But few believed that the underlying fundamentals of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
small-business loan market was being mispriced and underserved,” says Sean, who serves as CEO (Kenny is COO). It’s an assumption that required finding early stage funding partners willing to take the risk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
The company has raised about $500,000 in funding so far and is readying a Series A round. The Question: Unger and her team at Nix built the biosenser as an analog system, differentiated from the growing wearables View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
depicting the circumstances as it does, the movie will still send a message, says Mandelli. “The message is of women being ambitious, and that being okay, and the message of women wanting to make money and that being okay,” she says. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
At its 45th Reunion, the MBA Class of 1949 made a generous gift to the School for the purpose of creating a Dean's discretionary fund. Recently, Dean Kim B. Clark announced the name and intention of the fund, established in honor of former Dean John H. McArthur, as the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
product could change the world, and the drive to make it happen, they merely needed the money to get a new company started. The "traitorous eight," as they became known, enlisted the help of a visionary investment banker from New York,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
form,” Goldin said. “This all led to a more radical feminist movement and to the rise of an anti-feminist movement—a pro-family, anti-state aid, and anti-abortion set of organizations that produced more polarization amongst women than it did amongst men.” Actions of... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details