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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before launching Funding Societies, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Singapore and Indonesia, Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya (both MBA 2016) visited major... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
crisis. With financial contributions from the Steans Foundation in Chicago, Rogers is helping struggling black entrepreneurs in the Chicago area access funds from the Payroll Protection Program, a... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
After 29 years with the family business, 55-year-old Abigail Johnson (MBA 1988) has been making a series of bold moves since assuming the role of chairman of Fidelity Investments in December 2016, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The privately held mutual... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A passion for the sea doubles the percent of ocean set aside for conservation
Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993), an America’s Cup–winning sailor and avid scuba diver, understands the importance of protecting marine ecosystems. The former owner and CEO of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology company Serono has provided... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below, often evolves. And when a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
winner of the Alumni New Venture Contest and its $50,000 grand prize at an April awards ceremony at HBS. “I like to think of our product as the software that protects your hardware,” said Newnam, whose husband, Todd Newnam (MBA 1996)... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
protect our front-liners, and food to those who have been greatly affected by the lockdown. While we have been honored to help raise funds for that, we don’t want to stop there. We have teamed with an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
protecting and monetizing their intellectual property. In a Q&A, Professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in IP, including the rise of patent pools. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5925.html. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
extra effort paid off. Revenue grew by $5.6 million over the previous year to $113 million. HBP and Executive Education helped to offset the $12 million drop in the School’s endowment distribution to $101 million. At the end of the fiscal year, the School’s endowment... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
With its ability to hold steady and provide a regular return, rather than bounce around in time with the volatile stock market, music also starts to look more attractive as a non-correlated risk. The extra yield is especially appealing to institutional investors like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
housing trust fund in Arkansas and the development of legislation that protects families during recessions in Connecticut. Currently, we are providing our research findings to legislators who are preparing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
Trust for Public Land has a people-focused mission," says Rogers, "to protect the places or create the parks where people can connect to nature and each other." It all sounds simple and perhaps a little idealistic, but this kind of... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
R&D," explains Yeo. "A short time later, I set up the EDB's Singapore Bio Innovation Fund to invest longterm in overseas start-ups to learn as much as possible about the nascent biotech industry. And on June 26, 2000, the day the United... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
technology that wicks away moisture, absorbs odor, and protects clothing—all in one layer of thin, breathable cotton. In 2011, its first year, over 20,000 units were sold through retailers across the US and Canada. midwest and central us... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
of advanced learning in other professions, I was shocked to learn that nothing exists in the United States for similarly positioned teachers," Klemmer said. Two years of research led him to open the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education (NAATE) in 2011, aided... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Edited by Julia Hanna; photographs by Susan Young MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2025 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details