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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
send you flowers for. When I was hospitalized, my mother gave me a copy of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, a memoir of living with bipolar illness. Years later, that book was my inspiration for starting the Stability Network. I... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) is the founder of the Stability Network, which aims to ease the stigma of mental illness. They hope to achieve this by having professionals share... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because the state provides "the property rights that entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
A decade ago, the global economy nearly collapsed entirely, bringing down with it some of the biggest banks and the livelihoods of countless individuals in lost jobs, savings, and homes. When the next downturn comes, will we be any better prepared? The Behavioral... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project, conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to do just that.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving economic growth and job creation
"Our focus was first on stabilizing the economy for small business, and then on creating an ecosystem that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to do what they do best—grow and create jobs," said Mills, a long-time venture... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
neighborhoods. It also called for “a national system of income supplementation,” whose goal was not so much to increase “welfare,” but to economically stabilize impoverished communities in order to encourage private-sector investment and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder
and flexible full-time positions is good business (the company has franchises nationwide and saw revenues of $16.2 million in 2012). O’Kelly has declined venture capital funding to maintain more control over growth, believing that View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide, one of the world’s leading private equity investment groups. In 2007, he cofounded Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit that is advancing ways to apply market principles to solving social problems in the UK. He also serves as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
driven by the automotive industry, followed by smart grid stabilization solutions that provide “fill-in” power when customer demand outstrips supply. Given the technology’s potential applications and finite employee resources, the case... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
stability and a bright future for our children, if the deal falls equitably on all shoulders.” —Steve Schwarzman (MBA ’72), chairman, CEO, and cofounder of the Blackstone Group, in an opinion article on tax and entitlements reform.... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
breakthrough innovations and competitive advantage. Broke: What Every American Business Must Do to Restore Our Financial Stability and Protect Our Future by John B. Mumford (MBA ’71) (Wiley) If the business of America is business, then... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
and create a mechanism for dismantling failing financial institutions. In short, the administration is staking future financial stability on a much larger regulatory role for government, an approach advocated by Moss. “Government is a... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
income norms as predicted by economic theory," noted HBS professor Bruce Scott in his talk on "Creating Capitalism." Other speakers and their topics were Erik Bergloumlf of the Stockholm School of Economics on financial architecture in transition; Bernard Yeung of NYU... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
with the oil crises of the 1970s, but unlike the United States, where the government invested hundreds of millions in technology development, the Nordic country saw more organic and long-term growth. Its smaller private firms focused on the View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
creation of the Behavioral and Financial Stability Project. Researchers have conducted groundbreaking research on bank capital and liquidity management, the nature of bank runs in the modern financial system, and the unprecedented growth... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
are also essential to nonprofit ventures. His consulting background has also provided him with the business savvy and expertise to which potential backers (including several HBS alumni) particularly respond. Elaborating on the business side of Metamorphosen, Lim... View Details
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- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
industries were hungry for cost-effective, bio-based ingredients but couldn’t get their hands on them. Enter Macro Oceans, a biomaterials company that’s forming the connective tissue for a seaweed value chain. In a Nutshell “We buy seaweed from farmers, we View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The Future of Books
yet our top line, our readership, and their book consumption have stayed stable over the last 20 years. That stability may even tip toward growth as we develop the next generation of readers. There are always worries that kids are... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Carl M. Plochman III: A Savory Success
daughter and two stepchildren, he prefers to keep the question open-ended for now and focus on the company's continued growth and stability —a goal that's sure to keep fans of the classic hotdog-and-mustard combo happy for generations to... View Details