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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
illicit money that flows out of developing and transitional economies. These sums — corrupt, criminal, and commercially tax-evading in origin — are staggering, estimated at some $500 to $750 billion annually. The biggest part of this is... 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 necessary to validate the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
the beginning, but it gets easier. Are there any large deals to be made that could solve cash flow issues? —Johan Pensar (OPM 41, 2011) I think this is a clear example of mistaking a better product with market fit. Patel identified his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
board’s agenda, and the flow of information. Proposals to separate the chairman and CEO posts only when a new CEO takes office have not worked because as long as other CEOs remain chairmen, there is the appearance of a demotion and loss... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
crisis is the most urgent problem facing our planet. It is critical that we accelerate the flow of investment into green technology.” As one of Silicon Valley’s most successful venture capitalists, John Doerr thinks big. Working side by... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Supporting the School as a Student and Young Alumna
Path Iyer’s time at HBS helped her clarify what direction her career should take. At the School, she forged lasting bonds with classmates and encountered a diversity of thought, which prompted Iyer to start making gifts to the HBS Fund... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
microprocessor. “The thought was, If I’m going to get involved, get involved in the company that’s at the heart of that business. Being in that flow was critical,” he recalls. After Intel, McMinn worked at Megatest, Interwest Partners,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
business, government, and the global economy. It saps the strength of people and institutions, especially in developing countries. Everyone’s against corruption, or so they claim. But virtually all countries are involved in facilitating an enormous global View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
proportion of their rising incomes, in marked contrast to Americans, who in recent years have saved almost none at all. Chinese corporations save an even larger proportion of their soaring profits. So plentiful are savings that, for the first time in centuries, the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
a lot of strife,” Kordestani says. “We decided to make the most of this crisis and change everything that needed to be changed, all in one go.” Susan Morris watches her son enjoy a lollipop from her shop in Gbarnga, Liberia, which she opened with View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
entrepreneurs, Bradach and Tierney identified a problem in need of a solution. A booming economy during the 1990s, culminating in dot-com mania, generated a tremendous amount of new wealth that in turn ratcheted up the flow of charitable... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the arguments of economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the economy faster, which will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
driven by hard-charging entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors can buy a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s crumbling infrastructure and its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Lee-Chin, chairman and CEO of AIC, a Canadian mutual fund company. “Our behavior today will be our history tomorrow,” Chin said. “We have to make sure it is well written.” Panels included alumni from recent MBA classes discussing the ups... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash flow that is not... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
contributing their data to the network. Funded by $193 million in venture capital funds—$110 million of that coming in a Series D round in December—the company has 225 employees, split between a Silicon Valley analytics team and a Sioux... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg