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- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
million to the School in his name. With characteristic humility and honoring a process set by his predecessor, Dean Jay Light, Nohria stressed the importance of allocating these funds to advance the future priorities of his successor,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
R&D," explains Yeo. "A short time later, I set up the EDB's Singapore Bio Innovation Fund to invest longterm in overseas start-ups to learn as much as possible about the nascent biotech industry. And on June 26, 2000, the day the United... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs
Philadelphia Club Hosts Shapiro Photo courtesy HBS Club of Philadelphia HBS professor emeritus Ben Shapiro addressed the HBS Club of Philadelphia at a gala benefit on March 27. The event, held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, raised View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
support, and back-office processing to America. Strengthening the industrial base. Remember, too, that many high-value-added services are often closely connected to manufacturing and can be delivered only locally. Production engineering is hard to do without a factory.... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
Abstract This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and financing. We use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
collaborating with local preservation groups. “I loved going to different parts of the country and learning how important a sense of local place and culture is to people,” Cohen says. Cohen had served on the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
became especially concerned about local air and water quality when their first child was born in 1988. Together, they helped found the Environmental Media Association, designed to encourage writers, directors, and actors to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and received a $25,000 grant to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
The Sky is Not the Limit Ruth Cenat (MBA 2015) plans to change America—one community at a time. “In disadvantaged areas,” Cenat says, “if local businesses thrive, the neighborhoods flourish. There is a stronger tax base, parents have... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Photo courtesy of HBSASNE Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Southeastern New England (HBSASNE) recently held its first-ever reunion of the local nonprofit leaders it has sent to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
housing program. The initiative, Home for Good, collaborates with local service providers and tribal health organizations to deliver high-quality, culturally tailored care to those experiencing homelessness in the Anchorage community, the... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab)... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
Reunions Local Club Contacts Special-Interest Alumni Groups Alumni Career Services - a source of career information and job listings, as well as a source of candidates for positions in your company Executive Education Programs HBS... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Aditya Vikram Sunderam Abstract—We study liquidity transformation in mutual funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment systems to transform the way federal,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we drop the best recipients and the worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne