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- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
Harvard, including in his teaching the course Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Private and Social Sectors at the Kennedy School. In addition, Higgins and his wife, Kristine, support fellowships for students in the joint MD/MBA... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
capital markets are not going to be very transparent. This situation often, but not always, inhibits entrepreneurship. Capital markets have become much more transparent, for example, in France, with Le Nouveau Marche, and in Germany, with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Profile
Viktor Puzakov
was interested in going to an investment bank; the interview process gave me a chance to test the environment. It was a big eye-opener. I realized I wanted a more balanced life and that investment banking was not something I wanted to... View Details
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John Schupbach
India. Two thirds of the children there would never go to a single day of school; they were destined to back-breaking, low-pay work and a short life expectancy." During the day, John assisted in the medical clinic. In the evenings,... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
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Brendan Mosher
As part of a family running a vegetable farm in the Hudson River Valley, Brendan Mosher had dreams of going to college, playing football, and eventually running his own business. Then 9/11 struck, and Brendan felt called to serve his... View Details
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Alex Slusky
started the program.” The best simulation of business experience Alex pursued the MBA because he had an interest in venture capital and wanted “to find a way to combine technology and strategy – how do we go up a level in business? Where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
$30M (70 percent from international investors) to establish the country’s first post–civil war private equity fund providing capital to small- and medium-sized firms. YSP’s expanded offerings now include consulting, research, and the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
sisters to private school and providing them with a culturally rich home life — this bright young woman, whose Nigerian first name means “Thank God,” has made it a priority to help children who have not been as fortunate as she. As a... View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
dynamic distinction helps for understanding whether and how sustainability practices can help companies establish a competitive advantage over time. The Economic Effects of Private Equity Buyouts This study of 6,000 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
Finding a job can be a challenge in the best of times — so why go it alone? Members of the HBS Club of Greater New York gathered in November to benefit from the expertise of Kate Wendleton, president of The Five O’Clock Club, a national... View Details
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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog
affect how it competes? What are the strengths and weaknesses of different ownership models? When is it time to change a company’s ownership model (e.g., going from private to public or vice versa)? What... View Details
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Mohamed Farid
his path to HBS, which was not part of his initial plan. "I thought I'd go directly into private equity," Mohamed says. But he's grateful things did not go according... View Details
- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
almost ten years, serving as a soldier in Iraq, a platoon leader in Afghanistan, company executive officer, detachment commander, and finally as a company commander back in Georgia. I wanted to go to business school because I wanted to... View Details
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Tariro Goronga
private equity group making infrastructure investments on behalf of a pension plan. For Tariro, “the skill sets I acquire as part of an investment team will be very valuable when I go back to Africa.” His... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment platform for View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
expectations market; reining in monopoly pension and hedge funds; and enlarging private companies' role in the economy. Seeing Patients: Unconscious Biasin Health Care by Augustus A. White III (AMP 94, 1984) with David Chanoff (Harvard... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Star Turn
helping to set up HBS’s intranet service. At the urging of former Dean Kim Clark , he enrolled in the MBA Program. On his switch from academia to the private sector, Royo explained to the Los Angeles Times (December 6, 2009), “Back in... View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
together and unlocked private sector innovation and drove growth opportunities for those living in communities located near train stations, she said. What the country needs today is another long-term "vision." "Maintenance... View Details