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- 03 Jan 2018
- News
This is how much money it takes for millionaires to be happy
- 22 Apr 2015
- News
So you want to live near a millionaire?
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
stories of his great-grandmother Georgia Joyner, a sales agent for Madam C.J. Walker, the Black entrepreneur considered to be the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, and his great-great-great grandfather William... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
author of Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It (Simon & Schuster), published this month. Visit www.gbruceknecht.com. Photo courtesy of Bruce Knecht Meanwhile, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
admire Madam C.J. Walker, an African American woman who became a millionaire by creating and marketing hair products that she couldn’t find for herself.” On corruption: “When you read the press on Nigeria you assume that everybody is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
cleaning or cooking or doing your taxes? We ran survey studies with people living in the United States, Canada, Denmark, and the Netherlands, including millionaires as well as people who are less wealthy. And we found consistent evidence... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2000
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Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
overnight successes of today's dot-com millionaires make him question his more methodical path to prosperity, Shafir answers, "Not really. They're making millions of dollars be-cause the market is crazy right now, but I'm not sure they're... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Real Deal
the homeless that he anticipates the creation of a $20 million housing trust fund.“To progress together, we need to understand the needs of others,” Leppert declared. Described by the News as “a career businessman and self-made View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
iVillage soon created sites such as About Work (www.aboutwork.com), Better Health (www.betterhealth.com), and Armchair Millionaire (www.armchairmillionaire.com), a financial planning site. Although Carpenter and her cofounders originally... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
options; as a result, about 20 percent of his work force became millionaires when the company went public. "We shared the profits with everyone and gave those staying on an excellent opportunity," Hawes proudly noted. Hawes, who grew up... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
outside the power structure. I'd like to see a few self-indulgent female millionaires run for office! Is the United States ready for a woman in the White House? Currently, about 75 percent of the population is willing to have a woman as... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
The more immediate task at hand, however, is keeping TIBCO on top. "One of the biggest challenges is to make sure we continue to hire really good employees," says Ranadivé. "We have lots of millionaires around here — plenty of people who... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
“to run a little faster, jump a tad higher, and, like Ginger Rogers dancing with Fred Astaire, do it while wearing high heels and moving backwards.” — Deborah E. Blagg Just Enough by Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson (John Wiley & Sons) “Who wants to be a View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey
serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
no services. Macomber has spent time doing research in such an environment, the sprawling Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where scenes from the movie Slumdog Millionaire were filmed. As described in an HBS case he cowrote, the $3 billion... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
stages of realizing the full potential of e-books and e-readers. “Imagine a book with a video introduction by the author,” he says. “Or, if you were reading a novel set in contemporary Mumbai, maybe you could cut to a shot from a scene in Slumdog View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy... View Details