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- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
society. Applegate, an entrepreneurship expert, broke down the steps that Pivotal Ventures has taken to “bend the curve” with gender equity, including developing an ecosystem model, managing risks and measuring the impact of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
corporate auditing and financial reporting. "Integrity and high ethical standards are an essential part of the process." Reforms such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are making a difference, continues Franklin. "We don't want to go too far with regulation, or else we View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
its history, Donaldson regarded it as an offer he couldn’t refuse. Soon after he arrived, the SEC tackled a scandal in the mutual funds industry. But his agenda was also filled with many other pressing items—refining and implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
labor, calling it “a reputational risk to the company that’s not just, and not fair.” Before coming to HBS, Alexis Jackson was an oil and gas industry engineer. Now, she is co-president of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
some lines. I don’t think we want to set up, as other countries have, what amounts to a central authority that looks at everybody’s choices. But we need to look at the extremes and whether there are some practices we just don’t want to allow. For example, there’s not... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
list of every loan in the works, discussing risk factors, the market, and local politics. “That’s always an interesting meeting for me, since I used to be on the borrower’s side at my job in Houston.” Oakes says that before she heard... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
risk: following his heart, he left a lucrative corporate career to pursue a long-standing dream. In Baron's case, the pull was toward writing, and the risk so far has paid off. After achieving success in marketing and general management... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
place at TechCrunch Disrupt New York City between 2010 and 2016. “Men are more likely to get asked questions that are about the opportunity and their vision,” Huang says. “And women are more likely to get asked questions around the risks... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
with shareholders, rewarded short–term “earnings management” and beautified balance sheets. These tactics were facilitated by cooperative accountants who didn’t want to risk losing the profitable consulting business of the companies they... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the willingness of people,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
as good as we thought. Hopefully, we'll better understand the conflicts of interest, improve the system, and have more awareness of the risks of investing. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: If a few rotten apples can spoil the barrel, I think we have... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take it the rest of the way. So... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
thing and they're really good at it. It's so natural. It's so seamless. I'll never have that." When I found it, I realized like it really does change the game, but I did it in a very risk mitigated way. I still have a day job. This is all... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. False promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
John’s very deep personal commitment to social issues. What really came through to me was the heart and soul of this guy. At the risk of embarrassing him, we were both interested in helping an indigenous student from the United States,... View Details