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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
McCollom Hampton, and Ivan Lansberg go so far as to assert that having a successful family business is the "Emerald City" for most of the world's population-that is, the much sought-after means of assuring security and the promise of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
with him. No other medium could do that. What revenue streams derive from Shovio? Using this platform, a company CEO can talk via a secure broadcast to employees, distributors, or salespeople around the globe. Even the mailroom guy can... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
use becomes more mainstream," she says, "hospitals will be seeing this as a service they'll routinely want to offer their patients." —L.G. « Back Virtual Commerce Like the phone or fax, the Internet is now another major tool for transacting business. But unresolved... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Cablevision, and Tellabs (a maker of telecommunications products) in the late 1960s and 1970s to more recent investments such as Red Hat (a global provider of Linux and open-source technology), Internet Security Systems, online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that boards and executives quickly find ways around, with the assistance of lawyers, accountants, lobbyists, and bankers. Billions of shareholders’ dollars are spent to forestall or circumvent more effective reforms. Even worse, people are lulled into a false sense of... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
standpoint. What will HBS do in terms of innovation to provide models and learnings where businesses can ensure everyone can be more secure and prosper and allow for significant wealth creation? —Clayton Chan (MBA 1996) Given the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
amazing what they were able to do with market-based economic experiments and progress on infrastructure and food security once they put the Cultural Revolution behind them. Postwar Japan had begun to rise in the 1960s. The four Asian... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the real-world challenges they must... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
indoor spaces can make you sick—or keep you healthy. Fortunately, we now have the know-how and technology to keep people safe indoors. But there is more to securing your office, school, or home than wiping down surfaces. Levels of carbon... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a real estate investment company... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
country, or I'll go to another team. But I try not to play hardball because I learned early on that's a strategy that doesn't work. What I do play hardball with-- it's not the money but it's certain other provisions. For instance, making sure that she's housed in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
idea to investors, and by 2014 he had secured the capital necessary to expand Go-Jek rapidly. Almost overnight, Go-Jek overhauled the image of the lowly ojek. Before then price gouging of the uninitiated was rampant, and ojek were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
measures. The election is held, and the union is either accepted or not. Unions are now trying to change the rules, by lobbying for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, under which workplaces would be automatically unionized if union organizers View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
once felt secure in their communities, in their livelihoods, in their nations, and in the world now feel that their prosperity is hanging by a thread.” Noting that “business leaders have an enormous long-run interest in being part of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Fellow, before being hired to serve as the center’s director of strategic initiatives. “I worked primarily with the president and the CFO of Lincoln Center, and that was an extraordinary opportunity,” Houston says. “I gained experience in everything from labor union... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. Coup, who’s 41 and a numbers whiz, worked as the policy director for the anti-deficit Concord Coalition in Washington, D.C.; a strategic planner in the office of the American Stock Exchange’s chairman; and a special assistant... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
security company, with classmate Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), five years ago. For Zatlyn, who oversees user experience at CloudFlare, the trend is encouraging: “I don’t want to discourage women from getting into this industry. There are a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
me for. Leaving it meant abandoning the part of me that I felt most secure about," she says. Ana Maria ("Ania") Camargo (MBA '93) had her first daughter in 1997 and kept her job with CSC Healthcare, a large health-care consulting company... View Details