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01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

existing railway and new light rail network. Finally, the Asian Development Bank has agreed to a $650 million loan to cover capital costs for electrification of an initial 110-kilometer railway line running... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

boys and men. For Raymond McGuire , acts of courage include pursuing a career in investment banking at a time when there were no role models who looked like him, and quitting his job to run for mayor of New York City. As the prime... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

was not clear that the business was profitable. Rapid scale had come at a cost. In June 2016, BlackBuck had $5 million in the bank and two months of runway. BlackBuck’s focus had been on raising capital and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

as the sector faced increased competition from foreign innovation hubs, was being reshaped by the growth of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) locating R&D centers in Israel, and had to contend with a vexing shortage of human capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc

had also been a part of the underground publishing movement and was imprisoned for eight months during martial law, and their three children—spent six years in the United States before returning to Warsaw. Maj wanted to help grow Poland’s young market economy. After a... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

16 Nov 2009
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The Times Captures History of American Business

creative destruction move so fast and forcefully across the landscape as that ushered in by the financial crisis of 2008. Beginning in the United States, this crisis took the capital markets and the larger global View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

01 Dec 2013
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Your Own Medicine

interested in what they were doing and wanted to stay in touch. In subsequent conversations in the spring of 2010, the Secklers told Williams about HT-100. Williams went to work, offering the venture capital group that held the compound a... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

curve in which the central bank can provide market participants with forward guidance on both future short rates and on future Quantitative Easing (QE) operations, which affect bond supply. Forward guidance on short rates works through... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Jan 2010
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Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

income rather than to maximize the capital value of the savings. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/the-crisis-in-retirement-planning/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review Sustainability in the Boardroom: Lessons from Nike's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2015
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Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

condemnation and sanctions plague Russian adventurism in Ukraine, Putin retains control of Donbass and Crimea and threatens to take more. How should the West (specifically, the United States) support Ukrainian democratic capitalism and... View Details

21 Apr 2015
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Banking on Cheese Credem, an Italian regional bank, grants loans to Parmigiano Reggiano producers and holds the cheese as collateral in its own warehouse during the maturation process, essentially replacing part of the operations for the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy... View Details

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

The New Space Race

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Code name: Miesiąc

Jill Huggett

The Times Captures History of American Business

Your Own Medicine

Vincent Dessain

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