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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
in New York City. It seemed natural. Banking was in my family’s heritage. My next move was unexpected. In the middle of a huge New York City snowstorm, I received an unsolicited offer to join a mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
As HBS graduates, our contacts with each other and with the School are among the strongest and most enduring assets of our Harvard Business School education. Alumni connectedness is a vital mutual concern for the School and the Alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
people make ends meet? There’s no guarantee behind Social Security. Congress can do anything it wants to Social Security any day it wants. When you own assets, like treasury bills and mutual funds, the government can’t take that away from... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
1988 Democratic presidential nomination. When Babbitt became Secretary of the Interior in the first Clinton administration, he asked Cohen to be his Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget. In this role, she significantly increased View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
devoted to the interconnections between Jewish and Arab citizens," remarks Slifka, who then identified 282 Israeli groups that were dedicated to strengthening relations between Jews and Arabs. Over the years, The Abraham Fund has... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
everywhere they perform, with filters to explore genres, ensembles, studios, or professionals and the places they teach. The site is currently focused on San Francisco and Los Angeles, thanks to early funding from friends and family, but... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
industry’s problems surprise you? What we found was absolutely shocking. First, we uncovered the so-called late-trading and market-timing issues. Beyond that, we have moved on a whole series of other issues, producing the greatest rule-making period for View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
satisfaction of applying their learning to a problem about which they care a great deal." Funded by the School principally through generous alumni gifts and supplementing what employer organizations can pay, fellowships enable students to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
mutual fund operation in Edmonton, Alberta. The day I arrived the chairman said, “Go home and put on your jeans — we’re going to the ranch.” It turned out that he owned 18,000 acres and 6,000 head of cattle.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
provincial official who oversaw the negotiator role; he had worked for him before and shown an ability to sort out conflict. There was a mutual respect and mutual interest—and not much competition. “To be... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
entrepreneur) did not study interventions to change this bias—which was as prevalent among female investors as among male investors—but she hopes the findings will spark conversations about how to change the disparity. “The first step is awareness. The more investors... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(Clerisy Press) The author’s message: the single unifying and fortifying element across all categories of business is people. By understanding their points of view, needs, and ideals, managers can learn to succeed along with them in a View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance