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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
burger joint all day, so I was very excited. The reality was a little bit different.” Early indicators: “My teachers on Long Island really took to me, and I bonded with them. Mr. Gallo helped with my first research project: measuring the... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
to fellow alumni of the GLSA has proven to be lifelong. There’s a deeper layer of connection with people who’ve gone through similar experiences, and to have that bond mashed together with the aspiration of being business leaders—that’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
bond is practical, based on sustenance, but also spiritual: In Native American cosmology, Mother Corn—Selu in Cherokee—is the first woman. After well over a decade in business, Keen found a new calling. It’s an epic history that has its... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
as spirited as it has been during COVID-19, offers significant potential now to help curb the carbon trajectory and accelerate a more sustainable future. Even with the disruptions from COVID, we’re seeing capital flows of over $500 billion in energy transition in 2020;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
executive in the advertising business in New York City. A devoted wife and mom of three sons, she spent 25 years as a caregiver for her husband, who suffered two serious strokes, and remained fiercely committed to building strong family View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
ask for IOUs in the form of savings bonds instead. In 2007, the federal government distributed tax refunds exceeding $248 billion to more than 114 million filers. Businesses have long capitalized on these refund dollars, which average... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
questions early and often. Are bonds a good bet for those who want to reduce their reliance on equities? I have a lot of sympathy for those who are just getting into bonds now, but I still believe they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
HAVING A FIELD DAY Above: Before diving into the rigors of the first-year curriculum, MBAs gathered on Harvard’s McCurdy Field to form lasting section bonds and establish cultural norms by participating in challenges such as the limbo,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our Word For most of the 20th century, three View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
arrangement to deliver social value and financial value. “The social impact bond allows government to transfer the risk of performance of particular social programs to the investors. So in the event of a project's success, the government... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Prof’s Dream Comes True
option of purchasing savings bonds with tax refunds, 3,025 low-income tax filers bought 5,004 bonds worth $630,000, says Timothy Flacke, D2D executive director. “We can’t wait to see how many people buy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
the social impact bond, an innovative approach to marrying social purpose with financial returns for investors. Still in the pilot stage in the UK, social impact bonds already have enthusiastic supporters determined to bring them to the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
Real Talk
sharing their stories. It was often pain that they had bottled up from past experiences, and it was amazing, when they were able to do that and allowed themselves to be vulnerable; the bonds that then were able to be created across the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
30 percent more than would otherwise be true." And how would Cordero respond to those who might find such a gift solicitation tacky? "The demand and desire to give the gift of education has always been with us," he says, citing the old standbys of savings View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Fighting Back from a Knockout
bit of tarnish. Thanks to years of mismanagement by the administration he was voted to replace, Cranston’s bond rating was reduced to B, the lowest of any municipality in America. In an opinion piece in the Providence Journal (November... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
Tracy Palandjian (AB 1993, MBA 1997) is spearheading the development of social impact bonds (SIBs), a financial innovation designed to tackle some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Alongside Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969)... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
ventures. They are also partners in their belief of supporting women who want to pursue entrepreneurial careers. “We decided to do this together, given that we are both entrepreneurs interested in fostering others who want to launch their own businesses,” Asur... View Details