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- 06 Sep 2016
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The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards
re-nominating one male director and the second by expanding the board by one in anticipation of further retirements—that would solve the supply problem by creating 1,000 new board seats. The 19.9 percent quickly becomes 40 percent if women are considered first for... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
R. Brown Convention Center, which had been mostly parking lots, into Discovery Green, now known for its kayaking and performance spaces. The Partnership has just finished a $53 million capital campaign, which is being used to add 14,000... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not enough of a track record of cash... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Learning Curve
Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school but when her first child, Katie, struggled with learning disabilities, the private equity strategist turned her attention to finding the best learning... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
being his own boss, Royster instead went to work at Boston-based Capital Resource Partners, then the African-American private equity firm TSG Capital in Stamford, Connecticut.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead
Task Force and the resulting Racial Equity Plan have been crucial first steps in a community-wide, multi-year effort. Since the plan was announced in September 2020, we have designed the School's first chief diversity and inclusion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else fails, a receivership process to restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is also the author of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
periodically blown up other emerging markets. Having already devalued the renminbi in 1994, and having retained capital controls throughout the period of economic reform, China suffered no currency crisis in 1997–1998. When the Chinese... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
(MBA 2005), Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) and Jayamin Pelpola (MBA 2010). The firm hopes to capitalize on the current development drive and rapid economic growth taking place in Sri Lanka. Based in Colombo, York Street Partners was launched... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere by Christopher Meyer (MBA 1974) with Julia Kirby (Harvard Business Review Press) The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75 percent of the world’s output will consume... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
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Holding Business to Account
realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she launched Walden View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
A Sustainable Success Story
Robb Turner (MBA 1990) and his wife, Lydia, were looking for a place to build a family vacation retreat in 2009 when they found 800 acres of pristine hardwood forest in rural Dover Plains, New York. “The land was stunning—completely untouched,” says the cofounder of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
analysis." In 1960, he moved from conventional research to arbitrage research for the firm's own capital account, where, he explains, "returns were based upon outcomes such as deal closings, which could be qualified more readily than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
is supported by plenty of research. And yet only 2.2 percent of VC funding goes to female-founded firms. So in 2011, Dodi founded the Women’s Venture Capital Fund with HBS classmate Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984), intent on funding teams with at... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?
or private equity funds and from engaging in proprietary trading. The ban has been dubbed the Volcker Rule, in recognition of the former Federal Reserve chairman, Paul A. Volcker, who has championed the proposal. The administration says... View Details