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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
extreme volatility as Bitcoin, and does volatility impede transactional utility? In other words, can Bitcoin really function as a “currency”? — Jay Precourt (MBA 1962) Bitcoin has been volatile, though it has had periods of stability (in View Details
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Honors & Awards - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and Business, Poland, 2019 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2018 Incheon National University, South Korea, 2017 Université Laval, Canada, 2015 Adelphi University, USA, 2014 Universidad Católica, Paraguay, 2013 University of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
still have options, says Mills, who led the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013 and was an Obama cabinet member. Getting through the coming months will require extreme ingenuity and shrewdness from business owners, and... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
the partner type and private consumption. We estimate our model using the 2013 "Living Costs and Food Survey" database. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54695 forthcoming The Economics of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers worked its way back up... View Details
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Values Matter—No Matter Where You Are | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA 2013) is frank. “It’s been a wild ride. I’ve learned so much, both about myself and... Starting a For Profit Social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
company Long-Stanton and a 2013 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard, has been promoting competitiveness-based ideas to improve the regional economy. During the past 18 months, he’s given dozens of talks about US competitiveness to state... View Details
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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
foreshadowing the career path ahead of her, Shilla Kim-Parker (MBA 2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
partner, Honda) began in August 2014, when Misra started his year as a Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, a program launched in 2013 at HBS. Among the numerous scientists Misra met with in his search for marketable life... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases," says Schrader, who led Vaxess to another win at HBS's 2013 New Venture Competition this spring. Compare that number to the 1.8 million annual global deaths from HIV and the... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
barred sponsors from soliciting small investors for large commercial real estate. However, the JOBS Act of 2013 loosened U.S. restrictions on equity crowdfunding. Nino believes that crowdfunding will democratize real estate development by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
runner-up status in the 2013 Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition at HBS. “I didn’t expect to be a social entrepreneur when I came to HBS, but our team viewed the problem as a ticking time bomb,” says Rewane. “We started... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
Publications August 2013 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Accounting for Crises By: Nagar, Venky, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We provide one of the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Paris Wallace
raised more than $28 million for Good Start from a series of investors including Orbimed Advisors and Safeguard Scientific. Wallace believes he has found a sweet spot for his startup. According to TechCrunch, women’s health apps raised more than $102 million in venture... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
born in the United States to Nigerian parents, has dual citizenship to both countries. She has spent a considerable amount of time in Nigeria visiting family. In 2013 the Nigerian government named her Ambassador of Entrepreneurship, an... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
go forth." The Women's Venture Capital Fund successfully completed its capital raise at the end of 2013 and currently has four companies in its portfolio. "NVoice Pay, whose CEO and cofounder is Karla Friede (MBA 1989), exemplifies the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
democracy (and the lives of the 1%)? Is this something that market mechanisms can resolve? Or will responses like those Rifkin proposes be the answer? Or are these just 2013's issues of the day? What do you think? To Read More: Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?, Simon... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
all of these risks, did the acquisition add value to shareholders? AbbVie made headlines in March 2015 when it announced its $21 billion acquisition of Pharmacyclics. AbbVie, a research-based pharmaceutical company, was founded in 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its aftermath have focused attention on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
American," a case study authored by Mukunda with Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia (both case researchers at HBS). The case follows several key events in the career of Cynthia Carroll (HBS MBA 1989), who from 2007 to 2013 served as chief... View Details