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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
government and saved my earnings. Afterward I invested the money to develop a life-saving aviation technology but couldn’t attract resources to commercialize it. I was offered the chance to fly it on the Rutan Voyager (the first aircraft... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Gridlock and Save Our Democracy. The mission of Reform Elections Now is to facilitate election reform through education and engagement, with practical solutions that will enhance informed discourse, increase voter participation and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
is a no-brainer in terms of quality of life and money saved over the time your children are in school. I know it’s not easy to do, but spend time researching and if necessary downgrade jobs or move to a different school—you will not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
college savings vehicle acquired by Sallie Mae in 2006. Now a general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, Bussgang represents the firm on the boards of BzzAgent, ClickSquared, DataXu, digitalArbor, Mall Networks, Simple Tuition, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
friends roll their eyes at me, but my only car is a 2000 Nissan Maxima. I guess I’m most excited about money as a way to save time, which is much more valuable to me. What was the most important thing you learned about entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Palantir Press) Tōru: Wayfarer Returns is an alternate history of the tumultuous period from the opening of Japan in 1853 to the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The hero of this fictional account is Tōru, a shipwrecked young fisherman rescued by traders and taken to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
assistance needed to attend for two years, including the ability to partake in all aspects of the MBA experience? Susan Gilbert: It depends on what their expectations are. I think there are a lot of people who come here and think it should be free, and it’s not.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
nature, he says, so “this is about designing a financial system that can save us from our own worst tendencies.” To illustrate, Hanson points to a paper he coauthored with Robin Greenwood that revealed lessons about the mix of firms that... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
of money that’s been saved to taxpayers because of people like Elon Musk being involved is actually staggering. And so I think it’s a good thing. HBS alumnus: Very exciting. I wanted to follow up on the market side of things. It’s a very... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
user journey. Luna: What was the CalFresh application process like when you guys first started working on it, and what is it like now? Ingersoll: The California application process is a 45-minute application that doesn't work on mobile and doesn't View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
ushered in by Avatar hasn't been quite the saving grace that Hollywood had hoped, Lopez has a more practical outlook as a veteran of the consumer packaged goods industry: "Any time you can take a chunk of your business and move it to a... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Post·cook·ie (adj.) Cookies—those bits of data that track online browsing history and save your passwords—aren’t going anywhere. But third-party cookies that allow a shoe advertisement to follow you from page to page will become a thing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
purchasing and infrastructure management makes it easier to manage costs efficiently. Moreover, while electric buses can carry heftier price tags than gas-guzzlers, their lower operating costs pay off in the long term: Proterra estimates that one of its battery-powered... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved nearly enough to retire. You want... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash flow that is not... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
affected company shut the necessary doors, saving it an estimated $20 million. Flashpoint has public sector clients too, including global governments as well as US military and law enforcement agencies. In fall 2014, it launched a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
Solana reflects. Ruwende notes that for most Africans, "it is extremely difficult, given earning levels, inflation, interest rates, and currency devaluation" to save the amounts necessary to matriculate at HBS. "I think the sheer... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
grandchildren, home today due to a teachers’ strike. The story of how she built her house, dug a well, and fought to get electricity (at one point giving most of her savings to a government official) is an epic tale that spans many years... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
2004) recently led an effort to save summer internships for Black and Hispanic youth. Bobo is CEO of Project Destined, a nonprofit with a platform that teaches inner-city kids about real estate investment. COVID-19 forced him to move all... View Details