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01 Jan 2010
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Allan W.B. Gray, MBA 1965

focus on asset management and service would yield superior results. The approach worked so well that the company became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa.... View Details

Kenneth Salas

Kenny Salas is a fintech entrepreneur and operating executive, currently at the helm of nuDesk, which helps companies scale through AI-driven solutions and dedicated talent hubs in Mexico. As a Partner at Cintar Group, he actively invests... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965

privately held company's diverse concerns were sowed in 1965 when Kraft went to work at Rand-Whitney, a packaging company he later acquired in a leveraged buyout. Seven years later, he founded International... View Details

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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

href="https://www.library.hbs.edu/services/learn-with-baker-library#" target="_blank">Learn with Baker Library LSEG Workspace Introduction. Startup and Private company profiles: Pitchbook has detailed... View Details

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Mergent Intellect | Baker Library

Mergent Intellect Mergent Intellect First Research Reports are not downloading as expected as of July 1, 2025. We are working with the vendor to resolve this issue. Provides access to private and public U.S and international business and... View Details

20 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

programs offered by organizations like the COMMIT Foundation (full disclosure: I volunteer with COMMIT) and many private sector companies through which you can get exposed to those View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies

immediately, allowing customers to receive decision-useful information within 90 minutes of placing a request. “We’re building toward actual real-time capabilities,” Minnick says. Giving private companies... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation

scholars alike. She notes, “It’s the kind of far-reaching influence only HBS can enable.” “I had an ambitious research agenda. Companies now span more languages, geographies, and cultures than ever, requiring workers to communicate... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Books

Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan Selling China by Yasheng Huang What Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan (Harvard Business School Press) A recent study by the Project Management... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

nearly double the amount in 2012. That's nothing compared to the bonanza expected when the SEC opens up the floodgates for nonaccredited individual investors to directly acquire equity in private companies—and for View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

founded in 2011. The organization’s mission is make visible the scalable growth entrepreneurs of the emerging world, creating the largest information system and network of growth entrepreneurs. Expanding the world’s entrepreneurial economy, AllWorld systematically... View Details

31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

changes that would assist bank recapitalization: (1) the Fed should further modestly relax its rules under the Bank Holding Company Act to eliminate the presumption of "control" by investors at the current threshold of 5%, which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

An increasing number of inner city residents own computers and have online access, but government agencies and private companies need to do more to bridge the digital divide that still exists among income... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2003
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Selling Digital Privacy

If regulation won’t stop privacy invasion, what will? HBS professor John Deighton has an answer that involves convincing companies to pay us consumers to use our private information. Instead of relying on... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

entrepreneurship over the next two years and beyond. The Early Days of Harlem Capital The Harlem Capital story begins well before that first day on campus. In 2015, Pierre-Jacques and Tingle first joined forces at ICV Partners, a middle-market minority owned View Details

25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

Photos by Nancee Lewis The kind of private schools Chris Crane (MBA 1976) invests in have cement floors, no glass in the windows, cramped quarters, and just enough food on hand for the students to eat. “I see mothers labor in the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

tap a Core Partner who has experience running sales teams who will support the company for a few hours a month, or even take a more active role if needed. To align incentives with the founders, shares are given to Core Partners from... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

experience to her current position as chief investment officer at ImpactAssets, a $120 million donor-advised fund that invests capital for social and environmental impact through public and private debt and equity. At HBS, Seegull wrote a... View Details

01 Sep 2013
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Connell Family Gift Funds Curriculum Innovation

support the HBS Leadership Initiative, and Connell House was named in William's honor in 2003. A 2001 Alumni Achievement Award recipient, Connell was chairman and CEO of Boston-based Connell Limited Partnership, which he built into one of the largest View Details

Keywords: William F. Connell (MBA 1963); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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