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- 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
market funds, we closed the conceptual link between Wall Street and the promise to pay of a street vendor in La Paz. That's deeply satisfying, as is the knowledge that we've helped that vendor - and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
study topic." Buffett's offer consisted of an asset agreement to pay Media General $142 million for its weekly and daily newspapers and real-estate holdings, and a credit agreement that included a $400... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future
girls in Manhattan, Kovatch acts as a judge during the pitch competition. She’s also helping the nonprofit develop a scale-up plan. The lessons are empowering and the results transformational. “One student wasn’t paying attention, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
to the company. In 1988, Binder was named CEO. That same year, Amgen's R&D efforts began to pay off as the company launched its first product, Epogen, which stimulates red... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
academics for an exploration of new economy themes ranging from getting back to sustainable business models to the emerging wireless landscape. “Over the past year, we have seen a flight View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
Tellingly, he keeps his visits low-key. “He gets in line and pays for his meals,” says Mulder. “Just because his name is on the building, he made it clear that he didn’t want any special treatment.” “This Place Means Something View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
in our 90s understand, a few aches and pains are a small price to pay for being with family and friends,” he observes. And no doubt the ongoing challenge of fly-fishing keeps him young: “It’s the best sport... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
I’ve learned over the long haul (and two marriages) is that you should always make the personal stability of your life the first priority in choosing how to operate. I’ve endured a real lack of stability in my personal life and am not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
diverse as limited liability, deposit insurance, Social Security, and federal disaster relief, paying particular attention to the original thinking behind them. He concludes that the nation's lawmakers,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis
the successful states are approaching it, is it a willingness to experiment? Or is it highly aligned public-private partnerships? What are some of the traits that you say, if you’ve got that, you’re going... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to be a venture capitalist. Do you agree? It depends on how one looks at the business. We believe that when you see articles that question whether it’s a good time to be a venture capitalist, we are in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
Japan made you a better manager? Before I came to Japan, I was not a great listener. Here, 99 percent of my meetings are in Japanese; I have a full-time interpreter and spend practically the whole day wired up with an earpiece. Because of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
everything was being paid for in cash, the fact that you had all these banks popping up on Brickell Avenue, which is known as kind of the Wall Street of Miami, that were just there to take dirty money. You would View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education
Edify has assisted 1,100 private faith-based schools, loaning each a minimum $5,000. Founded and run largely by locals who grew up in these disadvantaged communities, these schools use the money for improvements (such as a computer lab) or expansion, and are able View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal
these jurisdictions. But the 20 percent levy should be reduced to reflect any taxes paid by US multinationals in low-tax jurisdictions. If a foreign subsidiary of an American corporation pays some tax in a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research
have lots of data about farmers’ soil type, crop preferences, willingness to take risk, and access to finance. Then we give them advice that’s directly related View Details
- 15 Nov 2021
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Charles P. Waite (MBA 1959)
Working Knowledge article. “Doriot’s thesis was that if you took a team of people with business experience and a willingness to expend time and effort as well as money, and mixed them with an entrepreneur... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details