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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Ink
something well, you’re not just looking at a Kuwaiti investor or a regional investor—it’s a global scene.” —Faisal Al-Hamad (MBA 2005), discussing the $170 million acquisition of Kuwaiti online food delivery service Talabat by Germany’s... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
she worked under three ministers of finance, sometimes sleeping at the office when protesters demanding reparations for martyrs of the revolution made it impossible to go home. That was when she decided to apply to HBS. "I was young and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
still some of that today. A lot of investors were not as familiar with private equity, so we needed to basically spend time just trying to explain what was going on. Private-equity firms have borrowed billions at low interest rates to buy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
(at $1.6 million) and highest fuel efficiency of any of the VLJs. Building a jet is a complex business, but Raburn attracted substantial backing, including investors such as Bill Gates. Herp notes that the Eclipse’s wings are produced in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
article see a project through from start to finish. They find a story and package it with any combination of a writer, director, or star before pitching it to investors or one of the big studios. If they’re successful in assembling... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
jet-powered airliners. The growing requirement for more factory space was fueled by new models and a surging worldwide demand for air travel. Massive construction projects were launched, including a new factory on 760 acres at Paine Field... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A Nation of View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
trauma edged in too: The King George Hotel, just next door, sold for a song in 2017, when Eurobank was unloading foreclosed properties to bring down the balance of its nonperforming loans. “Forty-three million euros, it was the best offer we got,” says Arhodidis.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
beyond the reach of many. Today, the demand for affordable housing exceeds the supply by a record 5.3 million units. READ MORE William Jones: Builder With a Mission Bart Harvey: Opportunity for Others READ MORE William Jones: Builder With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biotech company cofounded by genomics pioneer Craig Venter and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, together with writer and life sciences investor Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986). And it may soon come to fruition: Last March, in the wake of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
venture-capital firms. “Having the Endeavor seal of approval carries a lot of weight with investor groups,” Ko explains. In addition, Endeavor has created partnerships with companies like The Boston Consulting Group, Citibank, Ernst &... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
there would be demand for a joint degree program with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for innovators who aspired to launch and lead technology ventures. We did extensive primary research, including... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
exciting, fast-paced, and intellectually challenging; however, the time requirements were demanding and the investors always had “ideas” for the management team to pursue. At one point, I took our then... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
Andrew Miller (MBA 1988), writer and coauthor, Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN Nick Taranto Photo courtesy of Nick Taranto "We will see more investment in the tech-enabled food space. Many investors and entrepreneurs... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both saw an opportunity for a new kind of research geared toward the professional investors who were on the rise at mutual and pension funds. At the time, institutions accounted for less than 25 percent of equity ownership, but the way... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
by the 1980s, that number had fallen to 18, and by 2015, it was just four. “Vaccines went out of fashion,” says HBS professor Gary Pisano, who studies the intersection of business and science. “There was a sense among investors that they... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. RELATED LINK Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship While many classmates... View Details