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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Happens Next in Ukraine?” As attack unfolds, escalation, nuclear standoff among Harvard experts’ worst fears Harvard Gazette Wide range of possible targets for Russian cyber strikes, from infrastructure to smartphones Ex-intelligence...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Zofnass Photo courtesy Paul Zofnass A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing...
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- 03 Apr 2018
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Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
interested in the ability to have a positive impact on the country and on the people in that country by bringing in private investment. In several of these markets, they have the opportunity to leapfrog to a more advanced stage of development. Rather than have the sort...
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- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
paradigm via an open infrastructure that breaks down walled gardens and creates a strong, collaborative foundation for the future of global financial services. Millicent offers lightning-fast money transfers at a fraction of the...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Africa Looks Ahead
OKONJO-IWEALA: Providing basic infrastructure is the way to transform people's lives. At a UN meeting in Liberia to discuss a framework for development after the UN's millennium goals expire in 2015, Nigeria's View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction
entrepreneurs. “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” Gbadegesin and two Nigerian classmates, all of whom were officers in the HBS Africa Business Club, plan to set up an View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
several of the new research tracks the project has produced and how a few of these ideas are being put into action. Transportation and Infrastructure After organizing a transportation summit in February 2014 that featured everyone from GE...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Changing the way the world sees Africa
of Africa.com to both be a tremendous opportunity and a great responsibility,” she says. Clarke acquired the domain name when she was teaching corporate finance at Wits Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa, and serving on the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity using nuclear fuel. We will...
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- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
developing country, with an emerging economy. Diagne needed his team to mitigate risks, protect the public’s health, and educate the population without losing ground on key initiatives that would continue to bolster Senegal’s economy, such as View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
accepted an offer from General Electric and held various senior management roles in the United States before moving to India in early 2005, where he became CEO of GE India’s infrastructure business. Although the two stayed in touch after...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
infrastructure here that you don’t find abroad,” explains Domain general partner Brian Dovey (MBA 1967). “Also, you have very little ability for liquidity, namely IPOs and acquisitions, in Europe or Asia.” Anthony Sun says that after...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
(Photograph by Stephen Voss) World Bank VP and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has a clear sense of why she likes her job: “You bring very sophisticated finance tools to tackle the world’s most challenging problems.” Originally from...
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Julia Hanna
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
competition, even at the infrastructure layer and in terms of all the smaller tokens that are used for very specific use cases. We’ll have lots of them. People will have digital wallets to manage them, in the same way that you have a...
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- 25 Jun 2018
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Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
marketplace while its people enjoy a high and rising standard of living. Vietor, with HBS collaborator Matthew Weinzierl, associate professor of Business Administration, and Marvin Bower Fellow, has found that US fiscal policy is eroding the nation’s competitiveness by...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
billion in equity financing in 2017, while their Silicon Alley cousins raised $1.5 billion, or 15 percent more. (CB Insights was in the first FIL graduating class.) The total number of equity financings was...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Platforms and Collaborations
When Dean Kim B. Clark took the HBS helm in October 1995, one of his immediate goals was to create a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure at the School. A centerpiece of that effort was the Course Platform, launched in the fall of...
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