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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
for local bike manufacturers. He first dialed in to telecom in 1983 when, on a trip to Taiwan, he saw the popularity of electronic, push-button phones. At the time, India had tough restrictions on importing consumer products, so Mittal... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
northwestern us ClearCare serves the $60-billion private-pay homecare market in the US using a powerful SaaS technology that provides back-office efficiency and front-facing engagement of families and seniors. The sales process is... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
CEO Aaron Feurstein of Malden Mills On a bitter-cold December night in 1995, a devastating fire—driven out of control by gale-force winds—raged through the factory complex of... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
me that we could combine business and nonprofit and make one plus one equal more than two,” he says. “Seventy percent of what I was doing in my private equity and business life was extremely relevant; but in... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
Recent studies have found that gender diversity in the corporate boardroom can enhance dialogue, curb excessive risk-taking, and boost both performance and share price. And yet, women still hold only about 19 percent of S&P 500 company... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2003) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
two years ahead of Executive Director Lim's business plan projections and is proof that pleasure mixed with business can indeed lead to personal harmony. A second-generation Korean-American, Lim grew up in a musical family in upstate New... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
he says. “Right now in the world, a billion people have no electricity. But the cost of clean energy is falling. My mission is to drive broad awareness to the business side of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
by saying, ‘Jack is the former chairman of Vanguard, a $4 trillion enterprise.’ I say, ‘No, it’s a 15,000-people enterprise, serving 25 million people.’ The assets are the outcome, not the goal.” Home Equity... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
fund sector, today is undergoing substantial transformation, thanks to the Internet's growing reach. Unlike other areas of Internet commerce, such as online bookstores, where the cost View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA 1991). "Dani, I need your help,"... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
fall with a celebration in Mexico City, with University President Drew Faust in attendance—was founded that same year to support Mexican students accepted to the University’s graduate and postgraduate programs. To date, the organization has provided financial... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million packets View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
Historically, public equities have been the anchor to growth in most of my clients' portfolios. After three years in a row of negative public-equity returns, which hasn't... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
Apax has taken public more than fifty companies with a combined market capitalization of about 25 billion euros. Before stepping down, Cohen consolidated management of the firm’s far-flung offices, making... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
agronomic data analysis, breaking the information monopoly long held by the industry. To do so, FBN began compiling data spread across 65 different versions of so-called precision agriculture software and “democratizing” the insights by... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
When did you and your cofounder come up with the idea for Bubble (Bubble is a visual programming tool that empowers anyone to build software, apps, and websites without writing any code)? Josh Haas, my cofounder, came up with the idea through a combination View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
from getting outside. The problem, according to Cordeiro, is access. “The number of registered players is flat, but there are millions of kids out there playing soccer in unaffiliated leagues,” he says.... View Details