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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
emotional difficulty of attending the faraway university, Ranadivé persevered, and in 1975 he arrived in Cambridge with fifty dollars in his pocket. He credits his parents for their support of his plans. "My View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
learning — typically supplies and field trips. Donors review the proposals online and choose to fund the project they like. DonorsChoose is unique among philanthropies in that every dollar goes to the chosen project. In response to an... View Details
- 30 Jul 2025
- News
Play with Purpose
the US is trying to catch up obviously. And the MLS is a great league, but the amount of revenues that come in to even, we have a small club, we spend a couple hundred million dollars a year on players. So if you're in the MLS, you're... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
worrying about cost overruns, loans called in early by nervous banks, and credit-card debt. The company's woes strained the partnership, which ended in 1990, when Shafir took loans from his two Wall Street banker brothers to buy out Nessen's share. Over the next few... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
electronics, internet services, health care. And they are the caregivers of their families and their communities, and so it's a huge opportunity that has yet to really be tapped in terms of really creating IP and products that really... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
unwilling to spare dollars for clean water filters. “I’d watch them on a cell phone and drinking water filled with bacteria and parasites,” he says. “For me, it was such a market failure.” The challenge in Cambodia became the case study... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Eden of 75-degree temperatures, where you can breakfast on fresh guavas and relax into a way of life that values family and friendship over keeping up with the Joneses. Such was the path chosen by Richard Evanson (MBA '62), owner and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
years I worked at Parthenon Capital. I had a great start of a career there. It was a continuation of my private equity career from prior to school. And I got the idea that I would go out and find a company to buy and run, move to Atlanta with my young View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
is that thing,” Verdi says. “It’s one of the top three causes of our age,” adds Swartz. Both the Verdi and Swartz families have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed treatment of mental illness. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country, Mustapha is a "smallholder"; he and his View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
people of Texas first learned of their freedom. That became a day of remembrance and celebration. In this book, readers learn about the events that led to emancipation and why it took so long for the enslaved people in Texas to hear the news. The first Juneteenth began... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Only 10 percent of Indians have health insurance, 40 percent live on a dollar a day or less, and hundreds of millions do not have ready access to doctors or the government's beleaguered primary-care facilities. THE DOCTORS ARE IN:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
events seems inconceivable. For decades, General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler were American icons, Detroit’s fabled Big 3. Responsible for a significant percentage of all American jobs, they lifted countless blue-collar families into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
served as head of R&D in the Office of the Quartermaster General during World War II, rising to brigadier general. BETTMANN/CORBIS In 1921, Doriot left war-ravaged France for America, where he intended to enroll at MIT. Using a letter of introduction given to him by a... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
Boston. And had had the experience when I was a kid of working at my father's pharmacy. which was this place where people came together across generations, knew each other's families across race and culture, a variety of elements of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
program is a huge source of data for us about what is going on in the world," says SPNM faculty chair Herman ("Dutch") Leonard, the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at HBS. "The participants bring literally... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Matter’s largest financial supporter, meanwhile, is Pershing Square Foundation, started by Bill Ackman (MBA 1992). Pershing helped fund a 2014 ROI study by Columbia University professor Clive Belfield, who found that for every dollar... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Forbes welcoming me to the “30 Under 30.” I immediately shared the good news with my family and had a great day!” What does this honor mean to you, personally and also professionally? Pradhan: “This really is a team award. On the personal... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
humanizing effect on a lot of us and on how we approach business. I always knew that success would enable me to be able to take care of my family and have control over my own destiny. But what I didnÕt realize is how much it would mean to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg