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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
providing leadership for the eleemosynary institutions and many of the political institutions” in virtually every city in America. “One of my hopes is that the GLF has fueled your interest and passion for being part of the solution and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
have to avoid. You know, it's sort of like affirmative action for lack of a better word. So the institutions do not have the mandate to invest in anything that might look as if they’re investing for anything other than returns. Flint: So... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
the best way to learn is from your failures,” Baum said, adding that is what led to BlackRock’s culture of collaboration, something that was lacking at Merrill Lynch. Broad Institute COO Samantha Gray (MBA 2004) agreed, adding that the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Lee For Jonas Lee (MBA ’93) and his investment firm, Redbrick Partners, the purchase, refurbishment, rental, and maintenance of hundreds of low-cost, single-family urban homes represent a terrific, overlooked market opportunity. “It’s a $15 trillion asset class with no... View Details
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
doors of NeuroLaunch. Since then, the company has worked with two “batches,” as accelerators refer to groups of clients, in sum 11 companies. Headquartered across town from Emory, near the Georgia Institute of Technology, in the heart of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
cannot fight the tide of change.” Following Savage's address, participants attended one of six panels on tracks ranging from privatization to the developmental role of institutional foundations. HBS professor John A. Quelch moderated a... View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
Through our Entrepreneurs program, we’ve also helped five individuals launch their own small businesses, advised them on their business plans, and helped them land their first clients.” By day, Curiel serves as vice president of View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
March 21 panel discussion, cosponsored by the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership and Institute of Politics, may be viewed at www.iop.harvard.edu/index.php. Click on “Forum Archive.” View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
including his 1988 book The Defense Management Challenge. Professor emeritus since 1990, Fox tends to downplay his achievements and is quick to give credit to others. He says that his proudest accomplishment was to serve an institution... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
school board and other local institutions is the product of decades of nepotism and poor practices, she says—it can’t be pinned on a few bad actors. Any criminal activity will continue to be investigated and handled by law enforcement.... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
Research Center, a member of HBS professor Howard Raiffa's "Negotiation Roundtable," and a senior research fellow at HBS. Also during that period, he and HBS professor Paul Lawrence would be instrumental in establishing and organizing the School's outreach toward... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Particularly, I appreciate that the historical roots of racism were not “sugarcoated” and that the depths of ongoing institutional racism surfaced, along with options to do something about it. This article serves as a wake-up call for all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
the government can actually tax and spend and build things, while lowering the cost to business of doing its work, then you've achieved a good equilibrium. At that point, a country can begin to use its own institutions to look after... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
of the wonders that surround each of us is coupled with Flatt’s candid, empowering reflections on existence and his illness. The CMO’s Social Media Handbook by Peter Friedman (MBA 1983) (LiveWorld) Thirty years of experience informs this... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
about the perseverance his father showed in restarting life in the US as “the source of my resolve to do something meaningfully good, not only professionally but also personally.” The concept of tikkun olam—Hebrew for “repair the world”—motivated his involvement with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
much we can ask individual women to do while systemic barriers still exist. We need to make institutional and cultural changes. Have we moved beyond the need to make the business case for creating more diverse workplaces? CA: The narrow... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
at you. And you usually have some kind of introduction beforehand—the investors usually have some information coming into the meeting. You walk into the “Tank,” and it’s brand new. Did you refine your pitch specifically for the show? Yes... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
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York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
firm is pioneering interventions in Sri Lanka that will help transform the nation. In the past two years, York Street Partners has arranged the largest private equity investment in a non-banking financial institution and enabled one of... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
We are focused on building, in some ways, universities that are the exact opposite of my great alma mater. We want to invest in good institutions and help make them great by making them accessible and affordable to as many people who have... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken