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future of tomorrow’s sustainable cities Breaking News With a novel funding and ownership model, the National Trust for Local News offers a path to keep local newspapers in local hands—and sustained for the future Launch Codes Hard-won... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Bill Tai (MBA 1987) has built a whole professional community—that notably includes the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk—around the sport of kiteboarding. His View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
capital, and because many smallholders don't have clear title to their land—and therefore no collateral—banks are loath to lend them the funds they need. To unlock financing for his initiative, Masha turned to his friend Ladi Balogun (MBA... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
directly. Taxes are needed to fund public goods, but they sometimes distort the allocation of human and physical capital. And large government deficits put upward pressure on the cost of borrowing for companies. The authors propose a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
driven by hard-charging entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even individual investors can buy a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
who co-founded Strava three years ago. The protagonists must decide whether or not to accept the Series A investment terms from their venture capitalists. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/strava/an/814055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-031 Dana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 309-088 College Summit, a nonprofit organization "committed to the day when every student who can make it in college makes it to college," was faced with an important strategic decision. After... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete? Harvard Business School Case 307-086 In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the infrastructure while the host... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu, and Qi Zhang Abstract—: Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital constraints and information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
was probably a pretty likable guy and much like his characters — funny, tenacious, and creative. And that’s the way he really is.” Hood is now completing her third year as CEO of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, the View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
its own members to fund future expansion. What’s in Assistant Professor Uma Karmarkar’s grocery bags? It may depend on if she’s carrying reusuable bags. In a series of experiments, Karmarkar and a fellow researcher found that when... View Details
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan, augmented by safeguards that serve as partial substitutes for the umbrella prohibition on serving rivals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
only on their financial returns, but also on their social and environmental leadership,” says the down-to-earth Rhode Island native. Prior to HBS, Gertsacov, a former Fulbright scholar in Chile, founded a nonprofit business association in... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
READ MORE In the UK, veteran biotech investor Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) leads the search for a COVID vaccine. As with any startup, money was the first obstacle Bingham needed to solve but, in this case, it was the easiest to overcome. View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
startup that designs satellite propulsion systems and hybrid fusion power plants. At Google he was a Vice President, and he was the Project Leader of Project Loon. Mike was the CEO and co-founder of several successful companies and served... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
revenue production are brought into the picture? The question is not hypothetical. In recent years, an ever increasing number of corporations have developed and adopted socially responsible behaviors, thereby hybridizing aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel