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- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
ALS, but for many other diseases that suffer from a lack of funding and attention. “One of the top ALS researchers recently told me he thought it was ‘fair to say that if there was a measure of impact per dollar on furthering the ALS drug... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
Aravaipa Ventures, a fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in Colorado. Fenwick-Smith had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. It was that lack of direct experience... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise are many, including the high... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother launch a family-run investment View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
depend on. "How do you go from a state of corruption to an orderly market?" says David E. Bell, successor to Ray Goldberg as the Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business. "I think it has to start with you and me trusting each other.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
letting your convictions guide an urgent effort to do right by everyone. We used federal money and funds from the Dalio Foundation (Ray Dalio, MBA 1973) to buy 121,000 laptops and became the first state to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
earning Klarman entry into the Alpha magazine Hedge Fund Hall of Fame. The firm has grown from 3 to 100 employees. A consummate team player, Klarman rarely uses his private office, choosing instead to sit at the trading desk where he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
and the Underground Economy edited by John Edmunds (DBA 1977) Greenwood This easy-to-use guide covers the history, development, and current workings of cyber currencies and the underground economy, both in the United States and around the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all public and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Finding a cure for cancer became a personal mission
Thai Lee (MBA 1985), president and CEO of SHI International, talks about how a family crisis led her to funding cancer research. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment managers to reload... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Helping foreign countries invest wisely
Dora Vardis (MBA 1994), managing director in the foreign exchange division of Citigroup, works with sovereign wealth funds and central banks to create successful investments for their countries. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
reality is one reason the district is in such dire straits. When former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett took office in 2011, he cut statewide education funding by $1 billion, which meant a $5 million reduction for Scranton. While other... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers deposits from owning, investing... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would collect 11,000 prices in 9 View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
recently established a fund to support students who intend to work to improve society. “Today not only is the debt burden much higher, but the education the School provides is extremely valuable to those interested in public service or... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Developing ideas that have tangible, real-world impact—not just in academia but in practice and policy—has always been a vital part of HBS’s DNA. So not... View Details