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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
(MBA 1996), is a more sustainable, space-saving, and fun solution. Dediu started thinking about these alternatives around 2012, while working with Clayton Christensen at the late HBS professor’s disruptive innovation think tank. In 2018,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Business School Publishing) This history doubles as a sophisticated account of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
impact investment venture capital fund in India, and a year in Denmark as a Fulbright Research Fellow studying social return on investment methodologies. Mendu says being chosen as an HBS Leadership Fellow... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Oct 2011
- News
On Top, Down Under
Fookes: Leading the way at one of Australia's premier real estate firms. Photo courtesy Mark Fookes Mark Fookes (AMP 178, 2010) is head of investment management at The GPT Group, a Sydney, Australia, firm that manages $9.8 billion of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
provocative counterpoint to the mega-hit book Who Moved My Cheese?, in which mice are forced to deal with change in their environment (a maze) because their cheese keeps disappearing. The moral seems to be, if you want to survive, adapt. Malhotra’s book presents an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
driver, "I was at the building three minutes later," says Lhota, who started directing traffic, knowing that emergency vehicles would soon be arriving at the scene. "At this point, I assumed it was an accident." Lhota was spotted by... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Photo via The Wall Street Journal Photo via The Wall Street Journal Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) is leaving Berkshire Hathaway after a decade to start her own investment firm, reports the Wall Street Journal. Britt Cool is currently the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
flexible contract invested significantly more in their businesses and earned higher returns as a result. Their businesses were bigger three years later, and they are still bigger now, ten years later. That paper was very influential and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
influence HBS and HSPH curricula. Chu and Bloom, for instance, lead an HBS-HSPH elective on social-impact investment that includes the Antares field studies, cotaught with HBS associate professor Shawn Cole and HBS professor Kash Rangan.... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
like that. We saw that there was an opportunity to bring cleaner and cheaper energy through solar energy to these companies. “We started CrossBoundary Energy as an affiliated investment vehicle to help... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Beyond the Boom Senior Lecturer John Macomber The oil boom has lowered the unemployment rate in Williston, North Dakota, to less than 1 percent. “With respect to the city, if you want to diversify the economy and make it attractive to live here, then you have to make... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
that allows car owners and car users to be able to connect. We brought together all the stakeholders that go into owning a vehicle and made it into a subscription product. As a car owner, because your car sitting at home was getting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Happening Fast
the Street’s 24/7 demands. “There is no substitute for hard work,” Erdoes said. “There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out.” Erdoes’s investment group has been very... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
investment advice.” Grantham, who has established a foundation to raise awareness about environmental issues and promote collaboration within the green movement, sees dark decades ahead and potential disaster if we don’t change our ways.... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
companies, we would have never succeeded in any of them if we thought that we could get in and out in three to five years.” Among the companies funded by Aravaipa is Lightning Systems. When the fund first invested in the company, it was... View Details
Keywords: April White