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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
agricultural innovation, Ibrahim Mustapha is at the vanguard of what could be a green revolution. He belongs to a new farming program called Babban Gona, the brainchild of Kola Masha (MBA 2006) that is aggressively transforming Nigerian subsistence farmers into View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
“Tentpole” productions (so named because they would “hold up” the smaller, less commercial movies made by studios) and the odd dark horse can still rake it in at the box office, but these days it’s less of a given that consumers will ante... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
because traditional sources wanted a commercial return, and they all had different objectives,” says Traill, who now serves as chair of Goodstart Early Learning, as the acquiring syndicate was named. “We acquired the business for $95... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
less than 10,000 pounds, VLJs typically have a range of about 1,200 nautical miles before refueling, accommodate three or four passengers, cruise at about the same altitudes as commercial airliners, and have the capacity to land on... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
SpaceX launched and successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral just a few weeks later—delivering 11 satellites into low-Earth orbit for a commercial client—CEO Elon Musk noted that it costs $60 million to make the rocket... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
organizations with which Antares has partnered). The goal is to significantly improve the delivery of such products and services by achieving a commercially robust, self-sustaining footing, thereby ensuring lasting social and economic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
"I tend to think that small and focused is the name of the game," agrees Matthew R. Simmons (MBA '67), president and chairman of Simmons & Company International. Established in 1974 as a specialized investment bank to the oil service... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
Salt Lake to work on the Salt Lake Olympics. And he hired me, so I got to be one of the executives on the Olympic Committee. I just had a fantastic time. David Binswanger. I am section H of 1982. My first job ever was loading tapes onto tape drives for a large View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Duncan for the company’s Hack Week competition, in which employees are invited to spend a week pursuing a passion project. Their idea for a personality-forward voice assistant won an award and, with it, some funding. “Seeing that Spotify was interested in View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
(HBS Press, 2008), by BusinessWeek editor Spencer E. Ante. What follows is an excerpt adapted from the book. Venture capital has existed in one form or another since the earliest days of commercial activity. The Spanish monarchy and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
large book on the life and work of the late Stanley Meltzoff, a noted U.S. commercial artist, has nearly 190 color plates showing works ranging from illustrations for the Armed Forces’ Stars and Stripes and his covers for Field & Stream,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit Grameen Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen’s average loan (no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require transactions to be supported by... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
from fraud, yet simple enough for users to validate their status in a matter of seconds. Hall and Thompson's solution to this problem is Troop ID, a digital ID card that links an email address and password to a person's military credentials the way PayPal connects... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
is located in Dudley Square, Roxbury’s commercial hub and the intersection of several major streets — there’s a quiet hum of activity in the open, airy room where twelve BCC staffers are beginning their day. Since its founding in 1985,... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
and cord-blood stem cells for the treatment of some cancers, genetic disorders, and certain immune deficiencies. (Cord blood contains stem cells; individuals can bank their own until they, or close blood relatives, tap it for their own... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
afloat, but just barely. The banks were recapitalized three times, and Greece lost a full quarter of its GDP, which—like the brain drain of about 420,000 Greeks who left the country to seek employment elsewhere—has yet to come back. Those... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint