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- 09 May 2017
- News
If You Were Lorde’s Manager What Would You Do?
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
gone down. We’ve seen some odd behavior in venture capitalists trying to revalue a company they’ve already backed. There also are companies raising lots of money without much traction—in that sense, it’s still very much the pattern of, ‘I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
Somebody’s got to do something about this, he thought. But he wasn’t positive it should be him. Sure, he could start a nonprofit and try to raise money to advance some of the underfunded and unheralded research he was starting to find.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
categories. Take, for starters, the food and beverage model: Like any bowling alley, Top Golf, or the Kansas City–based Chicken N Pickle (with NFL investors Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce), these establishments lure people in with an activity but ultimately make... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Venturing Forth
Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
the thing you have to understand is, and I said this, in various ways in the book, the rules of startups, particularly from the financial side, are written to benefit investors, right? When investors put money into a company, they put... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
of challenges lie ahead. Right now, for instance, qubits are so delicate and prone to error that no one can say, with any certainty, when reliable, all-purpose quantum computers will become a reality. And the competition to bring the first working solution to View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Counter Intelligence
Christou, who got his first job at McDonald’s as a 16-year-old, flipping burgers near his South London home. What started out as a way to make money while he went to school soon looked more like a career, as he was promoted from crew... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
think those people also run a tremendous risk of being left behind. Goldman has a big market share in Internet stocks, and we have tried our best to understand them, but some of this defies rational analysis! We're using valuation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
(both MBA 2015) heard from Keith Alaniz, a fellow officer stationed in Afghanistan, about a farmer there who was concerned about having too few markets for the saffron he was growing. The trio, inspired by the man’s determination to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
resources beyond his current control to pull the project together. He successfully raced to get TV Guide's TV Game distributed to both high-end and discount retailers (priced accordingly) in time for Christmas 1984—and just ahead of View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
brothers returned to the United States, she argued, they somehow would find a way to make it work. Money, by necessity, became an obsession. Throughout his first year at HBS, Sityodtong sent $10 each week to his mother in Thailand, money... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
world following China’s path. “It was an incredibly powerful wave that I wanted to ride—to build a digital business that would help people in emerging markets use their smartphones to connect to markets and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
a microphone, and an extensive record collection with money earned working for their father. Ferguson moonlighted as a DJ in college on the weekends to earn extra money but never considered a career in the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
principles. A few days before the Namsan walk, Korea’s national college entrance exam took place—the test that, in the minds of most, will define their child’s future. Airline flights were suspended during the listening comprehension portion of the English test;... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
they buy. And in this excerpt, Toffel and Pal talk about Common’s business model, the market opportunity, and what she’s learned about launching a climate venture. Courtesy Sanchali Pal READ MORE Mike Toffel: So let's talk a little bit... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
value of education, changing the world through entrepreneurship, and finding meaning by helping others. Dahod’s first taste of entrepreneurship came as a teenager, when he helped his physician father produce and distribute medication that he had formulated. “I saw that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young