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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fish stocks as well as by View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East in the economic power... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve nonprofits that have extraordinary influence — from Habitat for View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
of Lynn Harrell, which includes a supporting cast of Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, John Williams, André Previn, and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Chicago Alumni Get Insight on Creating a Magnetic Culture Human Capital... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Professor at the University of Ottawa and a visionary founder of The Prosperity Project; Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008), founding partner of Springbank Collective; and Michelle Banik, a human resources consultant and former Chief People Officer... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
International Energy Agency’s chief economist announce that 2010 saw the largest annual rise in carbon emissions in history. So just how hot is it? Climate change, Bloomberg says, is “the greatest challenge that humanity has ever created... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
investing in space is going to take off even more? What do you think needs to happen, if anything, before that occurs? Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux: That's a really interesting question because on one hand there is an enormous amount of View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
nonprofit counterparts. “One of the roles we have to play is getting people to see the humanity of the other,” Crespin observes. In the honey-bee world, Crespin came up with the idea of having beekeepers, farmers, crop experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
employees and an algorithm to match them to employers, Apli aims to fill that gap. “We got amazing media and investor exposure, which kick-started our fundraising process and helped us raise a new round of capital in record time,” Makarov... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
uses a venture philanthropy model that makes early- and growth-stage investments in NGOs focused on high-quality, affordable schools; human capital development; technology in education; and school... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a much larger, more influential part of the global economy over the past two decades. The authors—Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking; Leamon, an... View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
development being led by private equity. What does this mean? There's a tremendous amount of natural capital in that region, and there's also a lot of development capital that is earmarked for impact.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA 2008) Target Global Leaving the Party Early Over the course of 20 years in venture capital, there are many that got away (Twitter, Capital IQ, Adaptive Insights, and The RealReal, to name a few). However, one... View Details
- 02 Feb 2022
- News
AI Could Cut Hiring Biases as Companies Make Push to Find Workers, Proponents Say
while AI’s ability to replicate and exacerbate human biases has led to some high-profile missteps and attention from regulators, firms like Pymetrics have worked to design systems that not only don’t discriminate, but also surface... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2013
- News
The Right Stuff
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
the 'best game in town' for using information resources to realize strategic advantage in serving customers." The Spotlight and the Bottom Line Do multinational corporations concern themselves with improving human rights in the countries... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey