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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Photographs by Christopher Brown/Redux Pro Not even a nighttime arrival in Mumbai, India’s bustling commercial capital of nearly 13 million people, can mask the collision of old and new that now grips the world’s largest democracy. Planes... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Capital Partners, a firm he joined after what he calls his “two magical years” at HBS during which he transitioned from medical provider to physician leader. “My first year at HBS gave me the framework to think about different parts of a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
at it. “I cringe when I hear people say, ‘Oh, higher ed moves so slowly.’” “I cringe when I hear people say, ‘Oh, higher ed moves so slowly.’” RM: I think we see innovation with a capital "I" in things like the new pedagogy of Field, the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Shareholder Bill of Rights Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Ebrahim is delineating a framework that takes into account the inherent uncertainty and complexity of measuring results in the social sector. EBRAHIM: The hard work of measuring impact becomes easier "Performance measurement in nonprofits and in NGOs View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
fine, but many of them also haven’t studied the region. When I look at some of the articles being published by major news outlets, you can tell they didn’t have an editor who really understood the issues. We’re creating the human capital... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
is to show students as many components of the industry as possible, as well as the management and entrepreneurial skills required to be effective in this field. "We cover everything from small-scale startups on Beacon Hill or Moscow to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
To reach, and return from, Iraq requires several mid-air refuelings. We use classic strike tactics to blind the enemy. Loaded with six thousand pounds of bombs, we take out their radar, communications, command headquarters, and missile... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
Breyer Illustration by John Cuneo In a year when the highest percentage of HBS graduates ever went to Wall Street, Jim Breyer (MBA ’87) headed west to join an upstart venture capital firm called Accel Partners. He figured he’d stay a... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government and investor capital in just the last few years. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
course in corporate finance and the tools to apply the field’s proven, time-tested principles in the context of the family’s financial situation, including the key principles of wealth creation and management and methods for making one’s intellectual and real View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
and progressive middle management. Rather than pursue shareholder profits, Anheuser-Busch suddenly became focused on stakeholder capitalism and the vague mandates of environment, social, and governance (ESG). This culminated in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
earning his MBA, Doerr joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980. KPCB’s focus on technology and life sciences, while dramatically changing the landscape of both fields, has also contributed to creation of... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
seemingly missing in Japan’s financial world. They couldn’t put their collective finger on it—not until, that is, they built their own VC firm. To be clear, the trio did not set out to create the first female-led venture capital firm in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
cultural psyche. The war served further to diffuse hygienic habits, as the need to keep millions of soldiers free of disease resulted in soap, razors, and other toiletries becoming required elements of soldiers’ equipment. Soap companies... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
make don't require you to compromise personal principles." "Don't let other people set your standards," cautions Mathias. "The most successful people in the world have at least one common attribute: they like what they do." "Find a way to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg