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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
along with tall buildings and department stores. By 1902, electric trolleys were transporting 5 billion passengers a year. Investors in the new technology began to build longer electric lines, called interurbans, to serve traffic between... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Institute for Sustainable Investing, that shows that 80 percent of individual investors in those next generations are interested in sustainable investments that can be customized to meet their interests and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to make a living by getting... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
specializes in speech recognition software. "That's proven true for our company time and time again. We decided to raise money from a prominent computer maker because of the credibility and opportunities such an association would provide, rather than going with a less... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
institutional investors lack the motivation and time to effectively discipline or otherwise oversee management. And investors all have differing time frames, priorities, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965
Chairman, Orbis Investment Management, Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education: B.Com., Rhodes University, South Africa, 1957 On Leadership: “One needs to cultivate a sense of purpose, a commitment to making a difference through business.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
rationally? HBS professors Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval, and Harvard University professor Jeremy Stein don’t think humans are such cold calculators. One proof: Individual and even institutional investors... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Getting Reality on the Table One of the country's foremost experts on money laundering and illegal flight capital, Raymond W. Baker (MBA '60) set out for Africa one year after graduating from HBS, seeking "a taste of international business." In Nigeria, as a consultant... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
institutional investors to fill the funding needs.” Since 2014, Coady has worked with groups like Credit Suisse to convene an invitation-only conference of investors to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Funding Progress Back Home
global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
something relevant.” In 2000, Nkontchou, a veteran of Andersen Consulting and Merrill Lynch, started LiquidAfrica with $250,000 of his own money and $2.5 million from Modern Africa, a Washington-based private equity fund. Among his goals are helping to attract more... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
numbers for the next quarter and they don't materialize, they often feel publicly embarrassed by their inaccuracy and take their anger out on the subject company by reversing a previous “buy” recommendation. That causes many institutional... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
respective ventures. Assaf is co-founder and CEO of the CBD-infused beauty brand The Uplifters’ Prima, which raised $9.2 million in a seed-plus funding round to support its retail expansion, according to coverage in the Los Angeles Business Journal. The round was led... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Wombi Rose (left) and John Wise Former i-lab resident LovePop—founded by Wombi Rose (MBA 2015) and John Wise (MBA 2015)—had an atypical appearance on ABC’s entrepreneurial reality show, Shark Tank: By the end of their presentation, they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
institutions that were formative in shaping who we are,” says Joe, and, second, “we want to support organizations that make a difference in the lives of others.” Given that HBS meets both criteria, the O’Briens are committed not only to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
was invested in U.S. capital markets; today it is 33 percent,” said Paulson. “Foreign investors are finding our markets less attractive,” he warned, and later noted that there is a danger that the United States “may suffocate” from... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
recognized that conserved land has many embedded values: limited development (environmentally friendly real estate), sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestration potential, recreation (eco-tourism), water rights, and more. Profits for Patagonia Sur's View Details