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- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
drive capital to businesses that are creating jobs and economic opportunities in West Virginia and other underserved areas of the country." What is the best part of this work? What do you find most challenging? Christine: "The best part... View Details
- 25 Jul 2018
- News
HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86
others, died on July 22 in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was 86 years old. After graduating from HBS and serving for two years in the US Army, Spangler gained great success in several industries, including the family construction... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the center of both environmental quality and economic competitiveness. Cities that can harness public and private capital and competency to build out efficient infrastructure will be far more competitive than their less prescient peers in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk. There’s an incentive for the private entities to hold as little capital as possible against their own loan guarantees, and they would lobby... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
classroom, it was like falling in love with the experience all over again,” explains El-Hage, who had taught the first-year finance course in 1984–85 after earning his MBA with high honors as a Baker Scholar in 1984. Over the ensuing eighteen years, he View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many countries. High real interest rates... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
committed to the idea of developing new understanding, deeper knowledge, and intellectual capital about business around the world," he stated. Along with increased support for global research, another visible manifestation of that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
covering long-distance travel routes in Europe. That last bit of news is telling: While electric cars are finally gaining traction here in the United States, much of the action lies elsewhere. “Within mainstream, old, dinosaur auto... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
characterized by a high degree of mobility of capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture capital firm. “We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Complements to the Case Method
productive,” says former student Nami Singhal (MBA 2013), now an associate at asset management firm AQR Capital Management. Singhal’s team made a bet that Argentina would default during its debt crisis; they were eventually proved right.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
production facility that are different from typical original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). And the vehicle’s design allows for an efficient production process at low volumes and with manual labor. Because of these innovations, Yong says the factory requires less... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
and sold her company. Sarah, a few posters down, used the knowledge gained from CWE workshops to build a $6 million computer-networking company. “We realized early on that we had tapped a real need,” notes Silbert as she takes in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
products, thereby gaining a foothold in the $1 trillion global health-and-wellness food market. This could yield unprecedented opportunities for the 500 farmers in Cameroon from whom CassVita sources the produce. “I love using technology... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these issues “usually aren’t well known to funders with big pockets,” explains Shell, “and big funders don’t often give large sums to people they don’t know. In addition to financial support, we add... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
In reaching Everest's summit, Petzel had achieved all three goals, two months to the day before his 40th birthday. "It helps if you're a Type-A personality, because of the level of perseverance required," he says. "What I enjoy most is View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley