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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)
I worked at a large search firm where I focused on the proprietary trading groups who were the cowboys of Wall Street, the precursors to hedge funds. I left because I wanted to build something of my own. I used to play chess. There is a likeness to chess in what we do.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
financing that ranges from micro loans to help home-based businesses buy delivery trucks to sophisticated loans to build factories, she believes the SBA can stimulate "not just initial product creation, but... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A founding father of Silicon Valley venture capital guides entrepreneurs
with his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954). In that firm, and on his own, he has been involved in the early stages of more than 200 businesses, including Amgen, IDEC Pharmaceuticals, Octel, Applied Micro Circuits, Tandem Computers, Teradyne,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
“The thing that most people don’t realize is that the music space is very data intensive, just as other asset-backed securities and investments are,” Soares explains. “You get huge sets of unstructured data that detail billions of rows of View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Global Citizen Year Fellow will be as distinctive an achievement as completing Teach For America or a Fulbright. It will become a badge of leadership potential, global fluency, and unmatched resilience. Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) micro Home... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
on the macro and micro effects of this boom—on the markets, the environment, and the future of small-town North Dakota. Read on for thoughts from Senior Lecturer John Macomber, Wade Myers (MBA 1994), Barbara George (MBA 1980), Professor... View Details