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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
"A new push for college athletes to (finally) be paid will gain strength; the NBA will win the broadcasting rights lottery, securing new deals with at least two networks; and the only time A-Rod wears a Yankee uniform next year will be if... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
long haul? The essays in this bilingual volume discuss this question in four interrelated themes: polities, social transformations, wealth and well-being, and culture, belief, and practice. The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed by... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Doorway to Dreams (D2D), a Boston-based nonprofit founded in 2000 by HBS finance professor Peter Tufano, where one of Maynard’s many tasks involves leading the organization’s financial literacy video game initiative. Devoted to strengthening the financial opportunity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
thing. Shoppers want value but also a stimulating experience, or "discovery shopping." Rakuten helps its vendors, many of them small-shop owners, use social media to offer unique content, such as the fashion shop that chronicles its... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big business and big social advocacy confederates to the detriment of workers, the middle class, and the nonpolitical rich, jeopardizing the nation’s View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
issue or understand its urgency." Working with fellow executive producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and 60 Minutes veterans David Gelber and Joel Bach, Abbasi secured backing from HBS alumni Bill Bowes (MBA 1952), Chris Hohn (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
developments, such as the congressional proposal to augment the Social Security system with a program of private savings, a plan that presumably would include the mutual fund industry. Ultimately, it is the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
has not had any defaults on $7.2 million in loans—large for a budding market like Singapore. At Austin-based online lending platform Able, founders Evan Baehr and Will Davis (both MBA 2011) have devised their own novel incentive to ensure repayments: View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
stepping down from management responsibilities for Apax, but remaining active,” an understatement that seems fittingly British. Since 2000, Cohen has been increasingly involved in efforts to nurture social investment in disadvantaged... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
have to be affordable. “From day one, we said we would use common, off-the-shelf hardware—regular PCs and security cameras—to figure out how to solve the problem,” says Kundu. “We wanted to avoid the classic mistake of creating technology... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
integrated, with cards made in a facility Lovepop owns in Vietnam, which allows for greater flexibility. The company is doubling its revenues quarter over quarter and reported a $1.4 million run rate in late 2015. After some small initial fundraising, in December it... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Chairman, Social Investment Task force, Bridges Community Ventures, & The Portland Trust Cofounder & Former Chairman, Apax Partners L.P. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Oxford University, 1967 M.A.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
museum’s “incredibly supportive and creative building committee.” Working with skilled professionals from a wide range of disciplines is something Houston did often in her experience at New York City’s Lincoln Center, first as an HBS View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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, finding shortcomings in the private... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
finding solutions for high unemployment in outmoded manufacturing industries, which was a situation that contributed to political and social unrest in the region. “It was one of the first applications of the ideas in The Competitive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
has two parts. The first discusses the geological and social history of the site, focusing mainly on the park’s construction in the late 1850s and 1860s. The second part has essays on the 200-plus tree species and varieties. This is... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
attend in the summer. The goals are to keep great teachers in the classroom, doing their best possible work and to create a Navy SEAL-style elite corps of teacher-leaders, first in high-need schools and ultimately in every school. Klemmer intentionally draws military... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
child-focused development organization. The Expedition for Education has secured backing for Childreach's school-support efforts from regional companies and HBS alumni. In return, Høegh and other "cyberexperts" on the HBS team will... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons