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- 12 May 2009
- News
Schumer's Shareholder Bill Misses the Mark
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due
percent of the more than $100 million fund disbursed over the last 30 years had been granted to high-profile politicians, their families, and those with close access to information. The payback ratio for the fund was less than 1 percent.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
fast-paced English is delivered with a German accent. He came to HBS with a grant from the German government after earning a doctorate in political economy from the University of Cologne. Upon receiving an MBA as a Baker Scholar, he... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
Cofounder and Managing Partner, Strategic Grant Partners Download Jacobson profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1960 Born, Framingham, Massachusetts 1982 Earns BA, International Relations, University of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
community. In terms of funding, we provide Spark Grants and Social Impact Fellowships. Another source is the Allston Venture Fund, which is a syndicate of venture capital firms that invest in some of the companies. Additionally, there is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
If the company is successful, that equity pays dividends. At C.H.I. Overhead Doors in rural Illinois, which offered equity grants shortly after KKR acquired the company in 2015, the first dividends were paid in May 2017. “I had colleagues... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
institutions the technology to identify customers using fingerprints and smart cards. “In much of the developing world, there is no system of identification,” he explains, “and that makes it virtually impossible to grant credit to... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
"You will get a free meal for your family every week at a Panera that's closest to you. And as soon as we can get you back, we will get you back." It's the least we could do. We opened up an emergency fund where we were giving grants to... View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
High Distinction (1979) and a DBA (1992) from Harvard Business School. He was granted tenure at the School in 1998 and named to a chaired professorship in 2001. “Clayton Christensen was one of the world’s greatest scholars on innovation... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
eager to start a business that was foreign to most Europeans. With limited resources, he was ready to take advantage of an opportunity others disdained. After all this time, he still takes nothing for granted and warns against even an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
a very clear pathway now.” And while soccer is still the dominant sport on the continent, Lawani says the sport is resting too comfortably on its laurels: “Football has taken the continent for granted forever. There’s no active investment... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
Extension Field Station in Lake Placid, New York. “Mike was already working with grants from the state of New York to expand its maple industry,” Turner explains. “Senator Chuck Schumer was among those who believed this was the only... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
unfeasible. On the other hand, the low property values that allowed Dlodlo to enter the market in the first place (she acquired the two buildings that she demolished for a mere $25,000) will continue to make her projects unattractive to commercial lenders. Dlodlo... View Details