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- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
better public management," Domínguez says, "but you also begin to get more farsighted economic policies that allow business enterprises to invest and ordinary Brazilians to save." Then came what Domínguez calls the "happy accident" of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
response: By providing preventive care and earlier intervention, Primedic’s network will lower costs compared with a public health system notable for its long lines and months-long wait for referrals. Rodríguez, cofounder of the IGNIA View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
HBS professor André F. Perold, for instance, led a discussion on investing in South Africa, with panelists John S. Chalsty (MBA '57), chairman of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; C. Bruce Johnstone (MBA '66), managing director of Fidelity... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Corp. cofounders Abrams and Hodgson crystallize their hard-won advice into a single how-to guide for small business owners. In Level Up, they share behind-the-scenes stories of building their own businesses, as well as actionable, get-it-done principles for founders... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
it basically, got started around a couple of my passions-- one being, at the time, windsurfing, which later grew in a kitesurfing. And technology start ups, which is what I do for a living, as a venture capitalist. White: Tell me what it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
“Business Solutions for Inclusive Prosperity.” The intersection of business and society is a topic Chu has been immersed in, as a practitioner and a researcher, for almost 30 years. He is a partner emeritus of the IGNIA Fund, a venture... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Your Way through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture by Scott Belsky (MBA 2009) Portfolio We love talking about starts and finishes, even though the middle stretch is the most important and often the most ignored and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
to dub him “an intellectual venture capitalist.” (courtesy Office of John McArthur) I met Dean McArthur only once, but he made an indelible memory. I had recently graduated from the MBA Program and, in addition to my day job, began... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
through 20,000 WhatsApp groups at a cost of approximately 10 cents per child, per year. The company has raised $1 million from institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and the World Economic Forum; venture funds such as Sequoia and Accel;... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
survey of HBS alumnae from the Classes of 1981, 1986, and 1991 indicates that only 38 percent of the respondents are currently working full-time. However, other findings from the survey suggest that a growing number of these former View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
corporate radar. Interestingly, some venture capital firms have revisited their prior investments and confirmed that those involving disruptive rather than sustaining technologies proved far more profitable... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
in ways that are easily defined and rewarded by society,” says Steven Carpenter (MBA 2004). “But as you get older, you learn that the line between success and failure is razor thin, oftentimes invisible.” Currently executive-in-residence at View Details
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- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
thought needed additional investment of time and resources which was fundamentally what to do with carbon dioxide. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast DM:... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
those days. There were very few VC-backed startups and not much of an entrepreneurial ecosystem. It was what author and venture capitalist Alex Lazarow would define as a “frontier market”—a place where entrepreneurs face significant... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
But that still represents only a tiny fraction of the thousands of terawatt-hours the WPTO predicts could be generated by tidal and wave technology in the United States, where investment in emerging marine-energy tech lags far behind that... View Details
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
really had to internalize that lesson to leave a steady job at Amazon and put all my weight behind launching a new and risky venture. To this day, my team and I have decided there's nothing to gain from being risk-averse. Every small milestone motivates us to run at... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
learning how to manage. Ultimately though, he would go on to spend 35 years at the company, becoming CEO in 2001. He was so dedicated to GE that, at age 50, he got the company's logo tattooed on his leg. Immelt, now venture partner at New... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
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Smart Moves
“Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and by being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you should invest. You can make data-driven decisions, rather... View Details