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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
to a calling — what can I do to help?” Miller said. “I always wanted to go into public service,” which he did, after writing a letter to Treasury Secretary and fellow Goldman alum Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). One Treasury project Miller has... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
Working Capital Fund to finance building projects and equipment purchases for labs and scientists. But he quickly discovered a major difficulty with the fund’s model: While View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big for microfinance. Since its... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
their focus to developing countries, which have undertaken ambitious and dramatic infrastructure projects in recent years. India’s Golden Quadrilateral highway received new sections and major upgrades between 2001 and 2006, when 95... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a result, little information is... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
comprised only a fifth of the entire student body (at 22 years old, she was also one of the youngest). “Because there were so few of us, it was easier to catch the attention of whichever professor, to have the chance to speak when we raised our hand,” she says. In her... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
and former Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, who now advises the company. Altogether, Double Time has financed 36 solar energy projects, which collectively produce roughly 10% of North Carolina’s solar power and power around 30,000 homes in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Scott P. Mason Remembered
to the HBS community on the occasion of Mason's death. Mason, who left the School last year to become president and CEO of Investment Technology Group, a New York based financial firm, joined the HBS faculty in 1980. In 1993, he was named the Edmund Cogswell Converse... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
"I never thought I would be a business person until…”
areas ranging from shipping, shipbuilding, industrial plants and energy. I was asked to join the in-house consulting unit that was established right after I joined STX. Later on, I progressed on to a more finance related role dealing with... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- April 2002 (Revised June 2003)
- Teaching Note
Nghe An Tate & Lyle Sugar Company (Vietnam), TN
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
Teaching Note for (9-202-054). View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Alumni Books
the realities of China today, this book presents Perkowski’s insights about the challenges and potential of Western involvement in the country’s great expansion. Turn Strategy into Action: Strategic Project Management Tools for Leaders... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
A Big Bet
Finance, and Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up. The initiative tackles training for the nearly two-thirds of American workers who lack a four-year college degree. Palandjian’s Social Finance is designing the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity firms and strategic companies. With this effect, a strategic company financing multiple long-term projects won't be as drawn to take advantage of cheap debt just because it's available, for... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
public within five to seven years of its initial financing, will be able to pursue research that will not have a payoff for fifteen, twenty, or even more years in the future. (But it's not impossible—after all, venture capital has played a key role in the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world through lessons in personal View Details
- Jan 2014
- Case
Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move
decreasing popularity of cars and increasing urban populations—have implications for 21st century transportation and infrastructure. This is apparent in the case of Chicago, a global city in the vanguard of change. This paper focuses on five major 21st century... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
day’s press reports. I have internal meetings with my staff and then, externally, with various American interests, other embassies, Moroccan ministries, and so on. About 20 percent of my time is spent in the field visiting local Moroccan officials and U.S. View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
One day in July 1995, shortly after his appointment to head the World Bank, Jim Wolfensohn took time out from a project visit in the African bush for an impromptu chat with a village official. For those present, it was a memorable sight:... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
which, when burned, releases more CO2 (a key greenhouse gas) into the atmosphere. C12 Energy's North Dakota project will instead capture industrial CO2 from a big chemical plant located about 50 miles away and then pump it to the mature... View Details