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- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
which has helped transform 160 acres of land around the Houston Ship Channel into an expansive green space, with hiking and biking trails, a bat sanctuary, a skate park, and an amphitheater that is home to the city’s Fourth of July... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
decide to stay in Cambridge rather than transfer to the U.S. Naval Academy. Entering the Marine Corps after graduation, Mixon trained as an artillery officer and landed in Vietnam in 1965 just as American involvement in the war began to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
whom you hire and whom you fire—and when. It will be crucial whether you are an entrepreneur, corporate executive, investment banker, or consultant." CURRENT READING Freakonomics, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner When Judy... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
socialist state, a land of overarching regulation rather than of opportunity. "As a result, there was no entrepreneurship, and businesses couldn't do a thing without government approval," recalls Rahul Bajaj, a member of one of India's... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George Hessler (MBA 1985) (Northeastern... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
2010, the upscale national grocer—at the gentle suggestion of Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow—came to look at properties in central Detroit. One of them was a vacant piece of land that Cummings owned on Mack Avenue in Midtown, next to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
investments in rehabbing existing houses and apartment buildings as well as ground-up construction of homes sold directly to qualified buyers. In 1982, we built the Allen Christian School (ACS), which, after a recent expansion, can now... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
matching the entire US division in revenues. “After that I was hit up by Motorola to run their GSM [Global System for Mobile communications] operation in Pakistan, which is where I discovered mobile—and the rest, as they say, is history.” After View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
construction: notably, how to get trillions of dollars of private capital off the sideline to make high-impact investments in water, sanitation, roads, power, and mass transit that will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people,”... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive and founder or three tech startups, quickly became good... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
countries. During his visit, Obama hosted an entrepreneurship conference attended by the likes of former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. The president announced that American businesses were ready to invest in Cuba and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
Even though Aisha Dozie (MBA 2002) had served on the boards of several private and nonprofit organizations over her career, her two-year search for the directorship of a public board proved to be a “pretty tricky and convoluted” process. The founder and CEO of Bossy... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
credit: Library of Congress / Dorothea Lange READ MORE Hi, this is Akilah Rogers. I graduated in 2009, companies were rescinding offers, and the only companies that were hiring were investment banking, consulting, and CPG. It was a really... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
sort of questions did they have? Brunell: Well first, there was a preliminary meeting with the head of the investment agency in Yangon. He told me his objective was to prepare a private sector development transition plan to accelerate and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
What is the connection to the gangs of Soweto, and how is the nefarious and powerful Imam Abed Al-Kumein involved? What is one of the largest investment banks in South Africa’s role and who is the mysterious hacker, Vladimir Al-Masri? To... View Details