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- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
mother, Terry, with office furniture consisting of a few card tables, folding chairs, and Princess telephones. “I found business so much harder than I’d anticipated,” says Bradley, who started the venture while still a law student. “So... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
an economic analyst," states George B. Kaiser (MBA '66), president and CEO of Kaiser-Francis Oil Company, a private concern based in Tulsa. "Analytical skills are indispensable when it comes to understanding and projecting pricing cycles and creating intelligent and... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
a problem.” Koss said Springbank is launching a State of Care Report in partnership with Pivotal Ventures to assess the care market and its future growth, while also looking at household management and aging-in-place trends. “It’s a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
guarantee the cows will turn Rwanda into the next Wisconsin, nor can I guarantee that every co-op will run smoothly. However, I do believe that the process of working through this venture can help put many of Rwanda’s ghosts to rest.... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
just on earth. I think that's a powerful argument and I agree with it. HBS alumnus: From a financial perspective, when you’re making some of these early stage investments, what’s the time horizon that you're looking at? Garriott de Cayeux: Just like any View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
to dub him “an intellectual venture capitalist.” (courtesy Office of John McArthur) I met Dean McArthur only once, but he made an indelible memory. I had recently graduated from the MBA Program and, in addition to my day job, began... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
involved in establishing the modern mutual fund industry and continue in prominent leadership positions today. Much like management consulting and venture capital, it's an industry that really owes its development and success to HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
successful startup, and in a way, it is. However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
Queensland State Parliament building in Brisbane in March 2002 celebrating the publication of her motivational biography Meet Me at the Top! PHOTO BY LYNDON MECHIELSEN/NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Today, Russo continues to build her business and reap its rewards. In March 2006,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
organize a seven-to-a-side tournament, a kind of abbreviated form of the game. And would you believe it, we won! Our first tournament victory. When I walked up to get that rather pathetic-looking trophy—which probably cost us $5 from the local hack shop—I had the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
globalization better?) A system of self-management that works even for people who adamantly don’t want to be managed, never wanted a boss. Most of all, it seems a form that encourages members to venture down the paths where curiosity,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
with which it works. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A & B)" (with V. Kasturi Rangan). Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: It looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
finally come to aerospace,” says Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009), VP at Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), one of the most active firms investing in the space industry. “It means that parts are cheaper and more expendable. If the cost of building... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
governments (Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City); dual-government ventures (Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, near Beijing); and company-led projects (PlanIT Valley, developed in Portugal by a high-tech company as an R&D center for sustainable urban... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
See more from the online-only March Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s focus on how HBS faculty, students, staff, and alumni are addressing racism. ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY HBS’s long-running Summer Venture into Management Program also... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
structure, to do this yet. Pioneering this customized therapeutic is where we’re at now. But the vision is to have a system in place, a funding mechanism—either a venture funding mechanism or in the future, more ideally, a payer... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ventures “solidified my belief that technology has the power to dramatically change the lives of marginalized communities.” In founding The Aspen Fellowship, a 6-week program that pairs Black undergraduates with advisors, classmate Brian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
doing their best to keep up. Many are engaged in joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers: GM plans to spend $4 billion on electrification in China by 2020, for example, while VW intends to roll out 15 NEVs over the same period. And the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
plans for HBS research and education ventures in key regions of the world. "We are talking about taking the School to a different level of involvement with the world," said Clark. On to Chicago HBS Alumni Association president Catherine... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
questions about whether a new venture will be profitable, if changes in business strategy will generate an increase in profits, or if “staying the course” will result in continued profitability. Unlike books offering one-size-fits-all... View Details